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Quick setup

1. Open Secure Clipboard Manager. It will appear in your Mac's menu bar.
2. Copy ordinary text in another app.
3. Press Shift-Command-V to open Quick Paste near where you are working.
4. Type to search, use the arrow keys to choose an item, and press Return. You can also click an item or use Command-1 through Command-5 for a visible result.
5. If Direct Paste is not enabled, the item is copied to the clipboard; press Command-V to paste it yourself.

Use the menu-bar icon to pause capture, open recent items, visit Settings, or open the full history window.

Direct Paste and Accessibility

Accessibility is optional and is used to let Secure Clipboard Manager press Command-V for you. To enable it, open Settings → General → Quick Paste and choose Allow Direct Paste. In System Settings, open Privacy & Security → Accessibility, add Secure Clipboard Manager with the + button if needed, turn it on, then quit and reopen the app.

If Direct Paste still does not work, confirm you enabled the copy in your Applications folder rather than an older build. Turn its Accessibility entry off and on, or remove the old entry and add the installed app again, then reopen Secure Clipboard Manager.

You can always use the app without this permission: choose a history item, return to the destination app, and press Command-V manually.

If the shortcut is already in use

Another app may already own Shift-Command-V. Open Settings → General → Quick Paste and choose one of the other shortcut options: Control-Command-V, Option-Command-V, or Control-Option-V. You can also quit the app using the conflicting shortcut and choose Try Shortcut Again.

If a copy does not appear

• Make sure Capture is on in the menu-bar window or Settings → Privacy.
• Copies recognized as sensitive are skipped by default. This commonly happens with password-manager copies.
• Check whether the source app is on your ignored-app list. Source attribution and ignored-app matching are best-effort.
• Copy the item again after Secure Clipboard Manager is open and capture is active.

Password-manager behavior

Secure Clipboard Manager skips copies that it recognizes as sensitive by default. If you turn on Record Password-Manager Copies in Settings → Privacy, recognized sensitive copies appear with a key badge for the current session and are excluded from saved history. They clear from the app when it quits.

An app must mark or otherwise expose a copy as sensitive for it to be recognized. A secret copied manually from an ordinary text field can look like regular clipboard text and may be saved. For anything that must not enter history, pause capture first.

Manage or delete history

In Settings → General, choose a maximum of 25 to 1,000 history items, optionally enable clearing when the app quits, or choose Clear History. The trash button in the full history window opens the same clear flow. If you have favorites, you can keep them while clearing the rest or choose Delete Everything.

Settings → Privacy also includes Reveal History File in Finder if you want to inspect the app's local JSON history file.

Report a problem

Email admin@qubesoftware.com with your macOS version, the app version, the steps that led to the problem, what you expected, and what happened. A screenshot can help, but remove or cover private clipboard content first. Please do not send your history file or sensitive copies unless you have deliberately reviewed what they contain.

App Store refunds

Apple processes Mac App Store purchases and decides refund requests. Qube LLC cannot approve or guarantee a refund. Use Apple's official instructions to request one.

Privacy questions

Read exactly what the app processes locally, what it does not collect, and how retention and deletion work.