You copy an address, then you copy a link, and the address is gone. Copiary keeps a list of what you copy so you can go back and get it.
Free, and no account.
Works on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS.
Most clipboard extensions only see copies made inside a web page, because they listen for the page's copy event. Right-click Copy never fires one, so half of what you do all day never reaches them.
The one other extensions miss. Copiary reads the system clipboard, so it does not depend on the page telling it anything.
Text, a link, a paragraph, a line of code. Links are recognised and shown as links, whichever keys your machine uses.
Kept with a thumbnail, so you can tell one screenshot from another without opening it.
Your editor, your notes, your screenshot tool. Copy there, switch to Chrome, and it is already waiting.
Click into a text field, press the Copiary shortcut, then click the item you want. The text goes in at your cursor, with no second copy and no paste.
It works in ordinary forms and in the harder ones too, like Messenger, WhatsApp Web and Gmail, where the message box is not a plain text field.
Type to search the whole history. Pin the snippets you reuse and they stay at the top, even after you clear the rest.
About a minute in total. The last step on the left is worth doing even though Chrome never prompts you for it.
Open Copiary on the Chrome Web Store, then click Add to Chrome.
Chrome asks what the extension may do. Click Add extension.
If you see "not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing", that is about the age of the developer account, not this extension. Chrome shows it for newer publishers and it clears on its own. Click Continue to install.
Click the puzzle-piece icon at the top right, find Copiary, and click the pin beside it.
Chrome sometimes leaves it unassigned when another extension already uses that combination, and it does not say so. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts, find Copiary, and if the box is empty, click it and press your keys. The shortcuts section lists the defaults for every platform.
Select a line of text and copy it the way you always do, with the keyboard or by right-clicking. Both work.
Click the Copiary icon or press the shortcut. What you copied is at the top. The footer says Watching while it is recording.
Click into any text box, open Copiary again, and click an item. It lands at your cursor.
Chrome does not let any extension touch the address bar, the new tab page, Settings or the Web Store. There, Copiary still puts the item on your clipboard, so your normal paste shortcut works as usual.
Type to search. Pin what you reuse. Click the footer status to pause recording, and Clear all to empty the list.
The panel is built to be used without the mouse. Open it, type to search, press Enter on what you want.
| Action | Windows, Linux, ChromeOS | macOS |
|---|---|---|
| Open Copiary | Alt Shift V | Option V |
| Search the history | just start typing | |
| Move through items | ↑ ↓ | |
| Paste the selected item | Enter | |
| Remove the selected item | Delete | |
| Close the panel | Esc | |
Chrome lets you change the opening shortcut to anything you like at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. Worth checking after you install: if another extension already uses that combination, Chrome leaves Copiary's blank without telling you.
A tool that reads your clipboard should be straight with you about what it does with it. Here it is in full.
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