Developers of Unite, an app that offers customized web app management on Mac, on Monday released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem. The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things.
Its goal is to offer users more control and customization compared with the traditional clipboard, making it a more productive alternative.
Quip is nonintrusive — on Mac, it lives on the menu bar and on iOS, it has a special keyboard — and maintains a history of all things that you copy across devices as a universal clipboard. You can easily search through the history and customize the timeframe to keep items stored, along with max items and maximum item size. You can filter through these items by text, links, images, code, files, and recency.
Quip allows you to add clipboard items to collections to easily access them later. Plus, you can make smart collections to automatically add certain clipboard items to those collections.
As the app accesses all kinds of data, the company has built customizable privacy controls.
By default, the app ignores data such as passwords, credit cards, and personally identifiable data for its clip history. It will also ignore temporary data, including cache, auto-generated data, and debug information. You can customize this further and instruct the app to ignore certain apps and keywords for the clipboard.
One of the useful features of the app is the “super shortcut,” which allows you to define short phrases for text expansion. For instance, you can write your address in a “super shortcut” and use the trigger keyword “addr” to paste details anywhere. This works for links and code, too.
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Quip also allows you to capture content on the screen from a presentation, videos, and a PDF through a trigger shortcut.
What’s more, the app has some smart features, including cleaning up URLs, preventing duplicate entries in history, cleaning up white spaces, and automatically formatting code.
The app supports Apple’s continuity Camera feature, allowing you to post sketches, documents, or photos from iPhone to Mac using the menubar app.
The app’s developer, Binyamin Goldman, said the company is using older Apple NLP (natural language processing) capabilities for on-device intelligent features on the app. He said that, later this year, it will switch to Apple’s offline AI models to explore more capabilities. Goldman previously only did partial development work on the apps his company created, he told TechCrunch over email.
However, he has done the majority of work on Quip thanks to AI tools like Cursor and Claude, he says.
You can try Quip for free for two weeks and pay $14.99 per year to get access to apps across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. You can also buy a stand-alone license for the Mac app for $19.99.
