Your clipboard manager is storing your API keys.
In plaintext, on disk. yankd keeps them too — that is the clip you reach back for — but in an encrypted vault, badged so you can see which ones they are.
Free forever on one machine · No account required · No telemetry
Paste the 5th clip
Why it's different
Three things, done properly
Everything else — history, search, pinning, plain-text paste, exclusions — is table stakes, and yankd has it.
It knows which clips are credentials
Password-manager copies, anything marked concealed, and anything matching a credential pattern — AWS keys, GitHub tokens, PEM blocks, JWTs, connection strings — are detected and badged on sight. They are kept, not discarded: the key you just copied is exactly the one you reach back for. They simply sit in an encrypted vault rather than the plaintext database Flycut and Maccy give you.
Selection and commit are one gesture
Hold ⌘⇧, tap to move, release to paste. The release is the confirmation, so there is no Enter. Same shape as ⌘-Tab, and every binding is yours to change.
It transforms as it pastes
Prettify the JSON, decode the JWT, snake_case the identifier, decode the base64 — from the same popup, one keystroke, without a detour through a sketchy web tool.
Encrypted vault
AES-256 via SQLCipher, key in your macOS Keychain. Free tier included — selling that as an upsell would be incoherent.
Vim navigation
j/k, gg/G, and named registers. "ay binds a clip; "ap pastes it from any app.
Multi-paste
Mark several clips, release to paste them joined — or hold ⌥ to queue them, one per ⌘V.
Composes with the shell
yank get 3 | pbcopy. Text on stdout, JSON behind --json, meaningful exit codes.
The gap
Open source you can audit, with the polish of the paid tier
The market is barbelled: free-but-dated versus polished-but-closed. Nobody occupies the middle, and nobody treats a clipboard database as the credential store it becomes.
| yankd | Flycut / Maccy | Paste | Raycast Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Encrypted at rest | Yes, free tier | No | No | No |
| Credential detection | Yes | No | No | No |
| Cycle-and-release paste | Yes | Flycut only | No | No |
| Inline transforms | 13 built in | No | No | No |
| History retention | Unlimited, free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 3 months on free |
| Open source | AGPL-3.0 | Yes | No | No |
| Price | Free / $29 yr | Free | $29.99 yr | $96 yr |
Competitor prices as published in August 2026. Raycast's free tier is generous; the figure shown is Pro, which is what unlocks unlimited clipboard retention.
Platforms
macOS today, the rest in the open
The Rust core is cross-platform from day one; only the clipboard backend is per-OS. Status below is what actually ships, not what is planned.
Import your history. We'll strip the tokens it kept.
yankd imports from Flycut, Maccy, CopyQ, Ditto and Pastebot — and re-runs credential detection as it goes, so switching also cleans up what your last manager stored in the clear.