Frog clipboard history: search and paste 100 recent text items

Enable Clipboard and collect new copies

Clipboard checks for new text approximately twice a second. It retains at most 100 items, including writing and dictation results, with available bounded RTF/HTML formatting. Non-text and multiple-item payloads are not retained. Text over 512 KiB and formatting over 1 MiB per format are excluded.

Copied text appears only on the Clipboard page; History shows Frog’s own activity. Enabling saved result history does not write these copies to disk.

1. Turn on Clipboard in Features. It is off by default.
2. Copy text in another app. Frog begins collecting new copies rather than importing the clipboard that existed before enablement.
3. Open the Clipboard page in the sidebar to search the copied text, reveal details, or copy an item.
4. Record a different Quick paste shortcut in the Clipboard page’s header if Shift–Command–V conflicts with your workflow.

Paste with the keyboard picker

Automatic paste checks the original app, window, field, and insertion range. If that target changed or is not suitable, the chosen text stays copied for manual paste.

While Clipboard is enabled, Shift–Command–V opens Frog’s picker instead of that combination’s native action. Command–C/X/V and Command–Option–Shift–V remain with the focused app. Disabling Clipboard unregisters its shortcut.

1. Focus the destination field, then press Shift–Command–V.
2. Type to search or use arrow keys to select an item; the list can reach all 100 entries.
3. Press Return or double-click an item for normal paste with available formatting, or Shift–Return for plain-text paste.
4. Use Copy or Command–C to copy without inserting. Escape dismisses the picker.

Keys and passwords stay hidden

Ordinary copies are visible and searchable by default. Text that looks like an API key, token, private key, password or credentials starts hidden, and so does text its source app marks concealed or transient. A hidden item shows as dots and names its kind, such as API key or Password, and still copies and pastes whole. In the picker, select it and press Space or click its eye; on the Clipboard page, click it. Hidden contents do not match text searches until revealed.

Closing the picker or leaving the Clipboard page hides the text again. The command bar omits hidden entries. Copying or pasting a hidden item preserves a concealed marker even for plain-text paste, and keeps it on this Mac rather than offering it to your other devices.

Frog recognizes keys and passwords on your Mac, from the key formats of common services, assignments such as API_KEY= or password:, and single words that read like a password or a random key. It reads at most the first 64 KB of a copy and sends nothing anywhere. Recognition is not perfect: an unusual password can still appear as ordinary text, and hiding a preview does not encrypt its contents. Settings → History → Hide history text is a separate display preference that can mask previews and details.

Clear copies and stop collection

Delete individual entries on the Clipboard page, or choose Clear clipboard in its ⋯ menu. The picker also has Clear. Deleting or clearing entries invalidates pending delivery; disabling Clipboard or quitting Frog forgets all retained entries and stops collection.

Clipboard contents are never configuration-export payloads, saved history files, or provider inputs by this feature. Clearing Frog’s retained history is separate from the current macOS clipboard and from any other clipboard manager’s storage. Completed AI results can still be copied by Writing or Dictation when Clipboard is off.