Clip Shelf

A place for every clip you want to use again.

Clip Shelf turns your Stream Deck keys into persistent clipboard slots for frequently used replies, screenshots, links, documents and other clipboard content.

Save and copy with a gesture

- Press an empty slot to save the current clipboard content.

- Press a slot with saved content to copy it back to the clipboard.

- Hold for one second, then release to save new content or replace the previous clip.

Clip Shelf never pastes automatically or monitors your clipboard. You choose what to save and when to copy it back.

What can you save?

- Plain text, including emoji, Unicode characters and line breaks.

- Rich text, including RTF and HTML.

- Links and URLs.

- Images, in standard formats such as PNG, JPEG, TIFF and HEIC.

- One or more regular files, including documents, PDFs, audio and video.

- Multiple clipboard items, when provided by the source application.

Clip Shelf can also retain standard PDF, audio and video representations copied directly to the clipboard. Compatibility depends on the source application providing the actual data and the destination application accepting its format.

Folders, symbolic links, file promises and application-private objects are not supported. Content marked as concealed or transient is also excluded from capture.

Recognize and organize your clips

Keys display image thumbnails, opening lines of text or file information. Add labels, choose between the Ink and Paper themes and adjust the display options.

Several keys can share the same slot. Lock a slot to prevent replacement, clearing or deletion while keeping its saved content available to copy.

The settings panel lets you create, select, clear and delete slots. Clearing and deletion require confirmation.

Persistent storage with configurable limits

Saved content stays on your Mac and survives restarts. Removing a key from a Stream Deck profile does not delete its slot.

Regular files are stored as independent copies, so they remain available even if you move or delete the originals. File names and data are retained; Finder tags, custom icons and other file metadata are not preserved.

Default storage quotas are 25 MiB per slot and 500 MiB for the whole shelf. Adjust either limit or set it to 0 to remove that quota. Lowering a quota never deletes existing content.

Technical limits still apply: up to 256 slots, 256 items per capture, 256 MiB per in-memory representation, 512 MiB of combined in-memory representations and a 60-second deadline per operation. Regular files are streamed rather than loaded entirely into memory.

Restoring files creates separate export copies that use additional disk space outside the shelf quotas. The latest successful export is retained until the next successful restore.

Optional Universal Clipboard

Allow macOS to share subsequent restores with your Apple devices through Universal Clipboard. Compatible devices and a working Handoff setup are required.

This option does not configure Handoff, synchronize your entire shelf or confirm delivery to another device.

Requirements and privacy

- Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 26 or later.

- Stream Deck 7.1 or later.

- English and Spanish interfaces, following Stream Deck’s language.

- Keypad action only; no dial, touch strip or Multi Action support.

- No plugin account or telemetry. Local storage is not an encrypted vault.

Clip Shelf 1.0.0

Initial release of Clip Shelf: persistent clipboard slots for Stream Deck.

- Save text, rich text, links, images and regular files.

- Press to copy saved content; hold for one second and release to save or replace.

- Customize labels, themes and display options, and share slots across keys.

- Lock slots and configure per-slot and shelf-wide storage quotas.

- Optionally allow Universal Clipboard for subsequent restores.

- English and Spanish interfaces.

Requires Apple Silicon, macOS 26+ and Stream Deck 7.1+.