Bowerbird A project by pltnkv
The Bowerbird logo: a linocut bird carrying a blue card

Copy here.
Paste anywhere.

Bowerbird remembers everything you copy and keeps it in step across all your machines. Text, images and files up to 2 GB — end-to-end encrypted, with no account to create.

Mac and Windows

A strip along the bottom of the screen.

Press a shortcut in any app and your history slides up from the bottom edge, newest first. Type to narrow it down, press Return to paste. The window never takes focus from what you were doing, so the thing you were writing stays exactly where it was.

The Bowerbird strip showing recent clips from Messages, Terminal, Maps, Safari, Mail and Notes
Every card carries the icon and colour of the app it came from, so you recognise a clip before you read it.
Searching the clipboard history
Search runs over everything you have kept, not just what is on screen.
Images in the clipboard history
Screenshots and copied images sit in the same timeline as text.
iPhone and iPad

Your Mac's clipboard, in your pocket.

Copy something on the desktop and it is on the phone before you have put it down. Bowerbird ships a keyboard you can switch to inside any app, so you can paste an older clip without leaving what you are typing, and a share extension that files things away from anywhere in iOS.

The Bowerbird history on iPhone
Everything, newest first
The Bowerbird keyboard on iPhone
The keyboard, inside any app
Sharing into Bowerbird from iOS
Share sheet, from anywhere
Files stored in Bowerbird on iPhone
Files, down to the phone
Bowerbird on iPad showing clips in a grid
On iPad the history opens out into a grid.
Previewing a PDF inside Bowerbird on iPad
PDFs and documents preview in place, without downloading them first.
Android

A keyboard, a tile and a share target.

The Android app covers the three places you actually need a clipboard: an input method you can switch to mid-sentence, a Quick Settings tile two swipes from anywhere, and a share target in every app that can share. Pairing a new device is a QR code and nothing else.

The Bowerbird history on Android
The history
The Bowerbird keyboard on Android
The keyboard
Images in Bowerbird on Android
Images
Pairing a device with a QR code
Pairing by QR
What it holds

Text, pictures and files that are far too big to email.

Files up to 2 GB

Sent in encrypted chunks, so a dropped connection resumes instead of starting again.

Pinned items stay forever

Pin the things you paste constantly and they are never swept up, whatever your history setting.

You choose how long

Keep history for 7, 30, 90 or 180 days — or leave it on Auto and let it manage its own budget.

Every device, listed

See everything connected to your history, and sign any of it out — wiping its copy if you want.

Privacy

The server cannot read any of it.

Everything is encrypted on your device before it is sent, and decrypted only on your other devices. The key is derived from a sync code that lives on your machines and is never sent anywhere — which also means losing every device means losing the history, and that is the trade being made on purpose.

There is no account, no email address and no analytics. Nothing is collected because there is nowhere to collect it to.

The sync code screen in Bowerbird settings
One code pairs a device. Nothing else to sign up for.