Orca Clip · Mac and Windows · Clipboard history
Part of OrcaEverything you copied today, one shortcut away. Snaps included.
The clipboard only ever remembers the last thing. Orca remembers the rest: the text, the links, the images and the files you copied through the day, and the screenshots you took with Orca Snap, with the text read out of them. Press the palette shortcut in any app, type a word or two, hit Enter, and the thing you copied two hours ago is back on the clipboard ready to paste.
Clip is part of Orca and lives on your machine: the history is a local database, nothing is uploaded to read it. Anything that looks like a password or an API key is never stored at all.
Copy as normal. Paste from any point in the day.
There is nothing to switch on. Orca watches the clipboard from the moment it starts.
It keeps what you copy
Text, links, images and files, as you copy them in any app. Unpinned items are cleared after 30 days; pinned ones stay. The history is a local database on your machine.
The palette, from anywhere
⌘⇧V on Mac, Ctrl+Alt+⇧V on Windows (Ctrl+Shift+V is "paste as plain text" in half your apps, so Orca leaves it alone). Type to search, arrow to the row, Enter.
It is on the clipboard again
The palette puts the row back on the clipboard and gets out of the way. Paste with the normal shortcut, wherever you were. Snaps paste as their text, or as the image with ⌘↵.
Snaps in the same palette
The screenshot you took is searchable by what it says.
Every capture Orca Snap keeps gets its text read on-device. Orca Clip picks those up, so a screenshot of an error, a table or an address is a search away by any word in it. Enter pastes the text; ⌘↵ pastes the picture.
Pin the ones you keep reaching for
The PO number, the meeting link you send every week, the address of the office. Pin a row and it stays at hand past the 30 days, and survives Clear history unless you say otherwise.
A full view when the palette is too small
The Clipboard view in Orca shows the whole history to browse, pin, delete and clear. The palette is the quick path; this is the tidy-up.
A clipboard history sees everything. So some of it is refused.
The useful version of this tool is also the dangerous one, so the rules are built in rather than left to you.
Secrets never land
Anything that looks like an API key, a token or a credential is dropped before it is written. The patterns are deliberately broad: a false positive costs one clipboard entry, a miss would put a key in a file.
Stored on your machine
The history is a local database. Search runs locally. Nothing is uploaded to make the palette work.
Thirty days, then gone
Unpinned items are pruned after 30 days and the total is capped, so the history is the recent past, not an archive. Clear it any time from the Clipboard view.
Why not a clipboard manager
A good clipboard manager is a good idea. This is that, plus the screenshots, inside the thing you already run.
The standalone ones are fine. There are plenty and most of them work. What none of them know about is the screenshot you took ten minutes ago, which is where half the things you want to paste actually are: the error, the reference number, the address someone put in a slide.
Orca Clip reads the snaps. Because Snap runs OCR on-device as it captures, the text in the picture is text again, and it is searchable in the same palette as the text you copied. One shortcut, both kinds of thing.
And it is one fewer menu bar icon. You are running Orca anyway for the inbox and the calendar. The clipboard history is just there, with the same ideas about what not to store.
How it fits
Small tool, three neighbours.
Snap feeds it, the inbox is where most of the pasting happens, and Chat can take a clip as context.
Pricing
Included in Orca. It would be odd to charge for a clipboard.
£250/licence/month
Everything included, Claude usage too
- Mac and Windows
- Snap captures in the palette with Orca Snap
- Cancel any time
One licence, the whole assistant
This page is one part of it. Every part below comes with the same licence.
- Orca Inbox
- Orca Autopilot
- Orca Calendar
- Orca Book
- Orca Meet
- Orca Post
- Orca Brief
- Orca Notes
- Orca People
- Orca Chat
- Orca Plan
- Orca Clip You are here
- Orca Mobile
- Orca Today
- Orca Screen recording storage
Claude API usage, setup support and updates are in the monthly price. The pricing page has the one-off setup fee and the rate for six licences or more.
Also available: Orca Time, £2.79 per seat a month, with Orca Snap included.
Questions: chris@simmance.ai.
Questions people ask
Does it change how normal copy and paste works?
No. Copy and paste are untouched. Orca only adds the palette shortcut and watches what goes onto the clipboard. Paste is still the paste you know.
Why Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V on Windows rather than Ctrl+Shift+V?
Because Ctrl+Shift+V is "paste as plain text" in Chrome, Edge, Teams, Slack and Word, and a global shortcut would take it away from all of them. Mac has no such clash, so there it is ⌘⇧V.
Do I need Orca Snap for the snaps part?
Yes, and "Keep originals on disk" switched on in Snap. Without it, Clip is still the clipboard history; it just has no screenshots section.
Does anything leave my machine?
Not to run the palette. The history and its search are local. Orca's overnight memory job can draw on the day's clips so that Notes knows about them later, and secrets are filtered out before anything is ever stored.
How far back does it go?
Thirty days for anything unpinned. Pinned items stay until you unpin or delete them.
The thing you copied earlier. Still there.
Part of Orca · Mac and Windows | See also Orca Snap, Orca Inbox and Orca Chat