Your history remembers what you see
Screenshots, charts, photos. They show up as thumbnails in the list and full size in the preview, ready to paste again.
For macOS 26
Everything you copy, when you need it.
Ámbar keeps your clipboard history — text, images, files — and hands it back with ⌘⇧V. It finds the text inside your screenshots, and if you hold the shortcut, it writes what you say, at no cost and with your own dictionary.
Free and open source. No account: everything stays on your Mac.
Try “invoice” — it only exists inside an image — or “tomorrow”.
What it does
A history that doesn't forget
Search inside your screenshots
Ámbar reads the text in every image you copy. Type “invoice” and the screenshot appears, even though you never named it. All of it happens on your Mac.
It shows up before you think of it
The panel opens instantly and results appear as you type.
With formatting or without it, you decide
↵ pastes keeping styles where they make sense. ⌘↵ pastes clean text. Ámbar stores every version the clipboard offers.
Hold the shortcut and just talk
Keep ⌘⇧V held down and Ámbar starts listening. You read what it hears while you speak, and it pastes where you were. It runs on macOS's own dictation engine: no subscription, no API key, no per-minute bill, and the audio never leaves your Mac.
Correct a word once. Just once.
Brand names and proper nouns are what every engine gets wrong. Correct one while you dictate and Ámbar adds it to your dictionary: it hints the word to the engine next time and fixes the ways it misheard it. You can also add your own terms in Settings.
Why Ámbar
Amber keeps what falls into it.
Resin traps a leaf, an insect, a whole afternoon — and holds it, intact, for millions of years. Ámbar does the same with everything that passes through your clipboard.
Privacy
Your clipboard never leaves your Mac.
Ámbar has no server, no account and no telemetry, and it makes no network requests. There is nothing to send because there is nowhere to send it.
No connection
Text recognition uses Vision, on the device itself. No image is uploaded anywhere.
Only you can read it
The history is stored with restricted permissions: no other account on the computer can open it.
It respects what is confidential
If a password manager marks what you copy as private, Ámbar doesn't store it. And you can exclude any app you want.
With the keyboard
Without touching the mouse
Everything happens from the keyboard. The opening shortcut can be changed if it clashes with another app.
- ⌘ ⇧ V
- Open or close the panel
- ⌘ ⇧ V
- Hold it down and dictate by voice
- ↑ ↓
- Move through the list
- ↵
- Paste keeping the formatting
- ⌘ ↵
- Paste as plain text
- ⌘ P
- Pin or unpin an entry
- ⌘ ⌫
- Delete from history
- ⌘ D
- Dictate without holding a key
- img:
- Filter by type while searching
- esc
- Close
Install
Three steps, a minute
- 01
Download Ámbar, open the DMG and drag Ámbar onto Applications.
- 02
Open it. A short walkthrough asks for the Accessibility permission, which is what lets ↵ paste into the app you were using.
- 03
Press ⌘⇧V whenever you want something you copied back.
- Version
- 1.1.1
- Size
- 2.5 MB
- Requirements
- macOS 26 or later
- Processor
- Apple Silicon
- Languages
- 10
- Licence
- MIT, open source
- Distribution
- Outside the Mac App Store, signed and notarized
Nothing leaves your Mac.
No account, no subscription, no server. What you copy stays where you copied it.
It's free and it'll stay that way. If it saves you time, you can leave a tip.