Buffer
Search everything you copy, even text inside screenshots
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Details
- External ID
- 1101018
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Buffer
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 72
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.97
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, GitHub
Description
Buffer 3.0 is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. Everything you copy text, links, images is saved to a searchable local history, one ⇧⌘V away. It reads text inside screenshots with on-device Vision OCR, lets you edit any saved snippet inline, and organizes clips with tags, bookmarks, and multi-select paste. v3.0 adds an interactive image canvas, history tiers up to unlimited, and clipboard noise suppression. MIT-licensed. No accounts, no cloud — everything stays on your Mac.
Enrichment
- Niche
- desktop clipboard and capture utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- searchable clipboard manager for desktop users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS clipboard manager built with Swift can easily poll or listen to NSPasteboard, store history locally (SQLite), and run Apple's native Vision framework for on-device OCR.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 456 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 457 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 346 days after the earliest competitor.
- EasyPaste — Clipboard manager for mac · ph · 2026-10-04 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- CopySnip · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- PasteNote · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Clippio · ph · 2026-10-05 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- CopyPal · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Clipappboard · ph · 2026-10-05 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Clipmory — Clipboard History for Mac · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Cliptray · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60