dbbasic-copypaste

A clipboard manager with history for macOS. View your current clipboard, browse through clipboard history, and restore previous items.

Features

• Real-time monitoring - Automatically tracks clipboard changes
• Text and image support - Handles both text and image clipboard content
• History browsing - View up to 100 previous clipboard items
• Easy restoration - Click to restore any previous item to your clipboard
• Preview - See full content before restoring
• Pause/Resume - Control when monitoring is active
• Clean interface - Simple, easy-to-use PyQt5 interface

Installation

From source

# Clone or navigate to the repository
cd dbbasic-copypaste

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements-qt.txt

# Install the package
pip install -e .

Usage

Run the application:

dbbasic-copypaste

Or run directly with Python:

python -m dbbasic_copypaste

Controls

• History List - Shows your clipboard history with timestamps
• Preview - Displays the full content of the selected item
• Restore to Clipboard - Copies the selected item back to your clipboard
• Delete Item - Removes the selected item from history
• Pause/Resume Monitoring - Temporarily stop tracking clipboard changes
• Clear History - Removes all items from history

How it works

The app monitors your system clipboard every 500ms for changes. When new content is copied:

• Text content is stored and displayed in the preview pane
• Images are captured and shown as thumbnails
• Items are added to the history list with timestamps

Click any item in the history to preview it, then use "Restore to Clipboard" to copy it back.

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• PyQt5 >= 5.15.0
• Pillow >= 10.0.0
• macOS (tested on macOS, may work on other platforms)

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

Author

askrobots