A clipboard manager for Mac that remembers what you meant.

What lands in the history

• Text, plain and rich – a copied link is text like any other – with the source app stored alongside it. ⇧⌘O opens that app again, so a snippet stays attached to where it came from.
• Images – copied images and screenshots, with their text recognized automatically, so a copied picture is searchable by what it says.
• Files and folders – copy them in Finder and their paths are saved as one clip, titled with the filename or a count.
• No duplicates – copies are matched by content hash, so copying the same thing twice moves one entry up instead of making a second.
• A history that ends where you say – set the maximum number of clips in Settings; the oldest fall off quietly, and anything you favorited survives the cleanup.

Getting it back without remembering the words

A clipboard manager is only as good as its search, and exact-match search fails exactly when you need it – you remember what the thing was about, not the string you copied. Gisti embeds every clip on your own Mac and ranks by meaning, so “deploy checklist” finds the note that only ever said “release steps”.

Exact matches, typo-tolerant matches and semantic ones are fused into a single ranked list, so a precise hit and a “same idea, other words” hit can both surface. Filters narrow it further: ⌘F by type, ⌘T by period.

What never reaches the history

Password managers mark a copied secret on the pasteboard with the cross-app nspasteboard.org types. Gisti checks for those markers before reading anything and skips the copy entirely – it reaches neither the history, nor the previews, nor the search index. That covers 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePassXC, Apple Passwords and everything else that follows the convention, with nothing to configure.

Anything else sensitive goes into Settings → Clipboard → Clipboard apps, and the Monitoring toggle pauses capture entirely without quitting the app.

Coming from a dedicated clipboard manager

Paste, Raycast and their kin do the clipboard beautifully, and if the clipboard is all you need, they are a fine answer. Gisti's difference is that the clipboard is one of four things in the same index: what you copied sits next to the notes you typed, the screenshots you took and the AI chats you had, all found by one search, in one window that opens on ⌥Space.

The other difference is the price and the plumbing: Gisti is free, has no subscription, and the AI parts run against a model on your own machine unless you point them somewhere else.