Your clipboard manager is storing your API keys.
yankd is the one that doesn't. Encrypted vault, credential detection, and a paste gesture that costs one keystroke instead of four.
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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 refuses to store your credentials
Password-manager copies, anything marked concealed, and anything matching a credential pattern — AWS keys, GitHub tokens, PEM blocks, JWTs, connection strings — either never touch the database or land masked with a self-destruct timer.
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.