Clipboard manager for macOS

Ask your clipboard anything.

Magpie remembers everything you copy and brings it back instantly — searching what things mean, not just the words, and reading inside your files. All on your Mac.

Download for Mac Buy — $9.90

7-day free trial · works offline · 100% on-device · macOS 14+ & Apple Silicon


Keyword matches2
Onboarding-redesign-review.pdf
… collected design feedback on the panel spacing and icons …
FFinder · 2026/05/28 14:02:00
Paste
Feedback from Sarah — tighten the title, love the new icon
NNotes · 2026/05/22 09:41:00
Related · semantic3
figma.com/file/8Kx2 — Onboarding redesign comments
SSafari · 2026/05/26 16:18:00
92%match
panel-spacing-v2.png
CCleanShot · 2026/05/20 11:07:00
86%match
Let's ship the tighter spacing in 2.4
NNotes · 2026/05/18 10:30:00
78%match
On-device AI No cloud No account Apple-notarized
On-device intelligence

Recall, read, and summarize — all on your Mac.

Magpie captures everything you copy — text, links, images, colors, and files, with their source and automatic de-dup. Then its local AI makes all of it findable.

Recall by meaning

Search what you meant, not the exact words. Keyword hits and semantically related clips, each ranked by match — embeddings run locally with MLX.

Keyword
Report draft — Q2
Semantic
revenue-q2.xlsx
94%
Net income grew to $4.2M
81%
magpie.app/investors deck
88%

Reads inside files & images

Reads text from PDF, Word & Pages, Excel & Numbers, and text files (up to a size limit) — and runs OCR on images, so a screenshot’s text is searchable too.

Q2-Investor-Report.pdf
quarterly report summarizes revenue …
whiteboard.png
“Q3 roadmap: ship recall…”
OCR
Vendor-Contract-v3.docx
termination clause, section 8 …
2026-budget.numbers
… Q3 marketing spend — $120k …

Summarize & rewrite

Turn a long clip into a quick TL;DR, or clean up rough text in place — the on-device Compose model handles it without a single word leaving your Mac.

“Following the Q2 board review, the team agreed to prioritize on-device recall and ship 2.4 next month, deferring the web sync work…”
SummaryMLX
• Prioritize on-device recall
• Ship 2.4 next month

Cross-language recall

Search in one language and find clips you copied in another — meaning carries across languages, no translation step.

meeting notes N会议纪要 — Q2 计划96%

Time-bounded search

Add a time frame — “last week’s report,” “yesterday’s links” — and Magpie narrows results by when you copied them.

Last week quarterly report FQ2-Report.pdf

Automatic de-dup

Copy the same thing twice and Magpie keeps one entry, freshly timestamped — your history stays clean instead of filling with repeats.

https://magpie.app 1 entry
Provenance

Every clip remembers where it came from.

Not just what you copied — where. The app it came from, and for links, the exact web page. Source stays attached, searchable, and clickable.

From your browser

Knows the page, not just the link.

Copy in Safari, Chrome, Arc, Edge, and other major browsers and Magpie records the exact page you were on. Months later, jump straight back to the tab the link came from — host shown and clickable.

Create a charge — Stripe API reference
SSafari·docs.stripe.com·09:30
Magpie — Design system — Figma
CChrome·figma.com·Yesterday
From any app

Tagged with the app it came from.

Text, images, files, colors — whatever you copy, Magpie remembers which app it came from, so you can filter by it or recognize a clip at a glance.

Q2 planning — finalize headcount by Friday
NNotes·09:38
#0066CC
FFigma·09:07
Q2-Investor-Report.pdf
FFinder·08:38
Built for speed

From keystroke to paste in under a second.

Keyboard-first by design. Summon, find, and paste without ever touching the mouse.

Summon from anywhere

A global hotkey opens the panel over any app. Navigate with ↑ ↓, paste with ⏎.

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Paste-on-select

Pick a clip and Magpie types it straight back into whatever field you were in — no extra paste step.

Quick Look on hover

Hover a clip’s icon and Magpie blows it up — full-size for images, the first page for files — without leaving the panel.

Filter & go deep

Narrow by type — text, links, images, files — and page back through 30 days with “Show more.”

Your engine, your choice

On-device by default. Remote when you want it.

Magpie runs entirely on your Mac out of the box. Prefer a frontier model? Point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint instead — the choice is yours, and you can switch any time.

On-device · MLX

Private by default.

Embedding and summarization run locally on your Apple Silicon GPU with MLX. Nothing leaves the Mac — no servers, no account, fully offline after the first download.

On-deviceRemote API
Recall
Embedding · Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B · 333 MB
Ready
Compose
On-device LM · Qwen3-1.7B · 984 MB
Ready
Bring your own API

Any OpenAI-compatible model.

Drop in a base URL and key — OpenAI, a local server, or any compatible gateway. Test the connection and Magpie routes summarization and recall through your model instead.

https://api.openai.com/v1
sk-•••••••••••••7Qad
38 ms

Automatic fallback. If your remote endpoint is unreachable, Magpie quietly falls back to the on-device models so recall never stops — then switches back when the connection returns.

Private by design

Everything runs and stays on your Mac.

By default, embedding and summarization run locally with MLX on Apple Silicon — no servers, no account, no telemetry. Your clipboard never leaves the device unless you choose to connect a remote model.

Local inference with MLX

The embedding and summary models run on your Apple Silicon GPU. By default nothing is sent to a server — a remote model is strictly opt-in.

One ~1.3 GB download, then offline

Models download once on first launch. After that Magpie works fully offline — we tell you up front so there are no surprises.

Skips what it shouldn’t see

Password fields are ignored automatically, and sensitive files like .env, .pem, and .key are never read.

Not on the Mac App Store — by necessity

Reading the contents of files you copy means running outside the sandbox. So Magpie ships directly, Apple-notarized for safety.

Pricing

Buy it once. Keep it forever.

Start with a 7-day free trial — no credit card. Then a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever.

One-time purchase
$9.90
  • 7-day free trial, no credit card
  • Use on 2 Macs
  • Works offline after activation
  • One-time buyout — no renewals
Buy Magpie — $9.90
or start the free trial first · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon
System requirements

What you’ll need.

Operating system
macOS 14 Sonoma or later
Chip
Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
Disk space
~1.3 GB for models
Internet
First-run download & activation
Intel Macs are not supported.
FAQ

Good questions.

Does my data go to the cloud?

No. By default everything — capturing, indexing, embedding, and summarizing — happens locally on your Mac. There is no server and no account unless you opt in to a remote model.

Can I use my own AI model?

Yes. Point Magpie at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — your own base URL and key — and it routes recall and summarization through that model. Clips you search or summarize are sent only to the endpoint you configure; if it’s unreachable, Magpie falls back to the on-device models automatically.

Do I need to be online?

Only twice: to download the models on first launch, and to activate your license. After that Magpie works offline — it only needs to reconnect to re-verify your license if it has been offline for more than 14 days.

Which Macs are supported?

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer). Intel Macs are not supported.

How much space does it use?

The on-device models are about 1.3 GB, downloaded once on first launch. Your clip history grows with use and is capped by your retention setting.

Does it read my entire files?

No. Magpie extracts and indexes the text from supported files up to a size limit — very large files are only partially read, and binary or unsupported formats are skipped. Images are processed with OCR.

What if I get a new Mac?

Your license covers 2 Macs. Deactivate an old device yourself from the customer portal, then activate the new one.

What permissions does it need?

Accessibility, for paste-on-select to type into the active field. Reading a link’s originating website host needs Automation permission — that one’s optional.

Refunds & support?

Not happy? Email [email protected] within 14 days of purchase with your order receipt, and we’ll refund the full amount to your original payment method — no questions asked. Refunds are handled by our payment provider, Dodo Payments. We reply to every message, usually within one business day.

Stop losing what you copied.

Free for 7 days. Then $9.90, once. No subscription, no cloud, no account.

Universal DMG · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon · Apple-notarized