Clipboard tabsPro

A clipboard tab keeps what you copy on purpose, to search and copy again later: an address, a reply you send often, a link for later. Brink never records your clipboard. Nothing is kept unless you save it.

Choose Clipboard in the “+” menu (V on the New Tab page). You can have one clipboard tab in each pane, and every one shows the same items.

Save something

There are two ways, and only two:

• ⌘C ⌘C in any app. Hold ⌘ and press C twice, quickly. The app copies as usual; then Brink reads the clipboard once and saves what’s on it. A small notice at the top of the screen says Saved and what, or Not Saved and why, even while the panel is hidden.
• ⌘V in the clipboard tab saves what’s on the clipboard now.

⌘C ⌘C is off until you turn on Save with ⌘C ⌘C in Settings › Clipboard. Like double-tap, it needs Input Monitoring, and turning it on asks macOS for it. It counts only when the first ⌘C copied something; letting go of ⌘, pressing another key or clicking in between starts over.

What it keeps

Plain text, styled text, links (with their title, when the copy has one), images, colors, and files (as references: the files stay where they are). Saving the same thing again moves it to the top rather than keeping it twice.

What it doesn’t keep

• Copies marked private. Password managers’ apps mark the passwords you copy as private or only for now. Brink skips those, and says so. Passwords copied from a password manager’s browser extension usually aren’t marked, so they would be saved like any text: don’t press ⌘C twice on one.
• Anything you didn’t save. Brink reads the clipboard only right after ⌘C ⌘C, and when you press ⌘V in the tab. While ⌘C ⌘C is on, it notes only whether the clipboard changed, never what’s on it, until you press the second C.

Everything you save stays on this Mac, until you delete it. See the privacy policy.

If macOS asks before apps read the clipboard

macOS 26 lets apps read the clipboard without asking. If your Mac asks instead (System Settings › Privacy & Security › Paste from Other Apps): set to Deny for Brink, ⌘C ⌘C can’t save anything, and the tab and Settings say so, with Open Privacy & Security; set to Ask, macOS asks each time you press ⌘C ⌘C. ⌘V in the tab always works: it’s a paste you made.

Use your items

• Return, ⌘C or a double-click copies an item back to the clipboard, as it was saved, and moves it to the top. Then paste it wherever you like. You can also drag items out to other apps.
• Pin an item with the pin on its row: pinned items stay at the top, and Clear leaves them alone. Good for snippets you use often.
• Right-click an item for Copy, Pin or Unpin, and Delete. ⌫ deletes too.

Search and filter

Just start typing to search (⌘F goes to the search field). It finds items with every word you type, ignoring case and accents. ↑ and ↓ move through the results, Return copies one, and Escape clears the search. The filter button shows All Items, or only Text, Links, Images, Colors or Files; each tab keeps its own.

Clear

Clear (in the header, or Clear… in the tab’s menu) deletes every item that isn’t pinned, after asking. Closing a clipboard tab deletes nothing.