BiBimba

BiBimba is a Mac clipboard manager that keeps clipboard history, screenshots, and the text inside copied images in one searchable place. It is aimed at Mac users who copy and screenshot constantly and then need to find something again later without remembering where it came from. Instead of relying on memory, you type a few words, choose the item you need, and paste it straight back into the app you were using. Beyond history, BiBimba reads text inside screenshots with OCR and, on compatible Macs, runs on-device AI that can translate, summarize, or rewrite selected text. The entire experience is designed to be driven from the keyboard. The problem BiBimba addresses is simple and familiar to anyone who works on a Mac all day. The system clipboard only holds the last thing you copied, so everything before that is gone the moment you copy something new. Screenshots add a second layer of friction: an image can contain a receipt total, an error message, or a table of values, yet that text is locked inside a picture and cannot be searched or reused. The result is a lot of hunting — scrolling through folders, opening old screenshots, or copying the same information twice. BiBimba's answer, as its tagline puts it, is clipboard history that can read your screenshots, so copied text and screenshots become searchable together rather than living in separate silos. Search is the core of the product. With ⌃⇧C you open your history, then type a few words to search Mac clipboard history, screenshots, text inside images, and snippets all at once. You move through the results with ⌃N and ⌃P, choose an item, and paste it back into the app you were using. Because OCR results are indexed alongside ordinary copied text, the interface can even label matching items by type — the site shows an example query such as "invoice" returning a result group marked "@ocr · 6 items." For quick reuse without opening the full window, ⌃⇧V lets you pick an item and paste it directly, and the paste menu offers a plain paste with ↩ alongside text actions with ⌃K. The design goal is stated plainly on the site: you do not need to remember where something was saved; you search, choose, and use it. OCR is what separates BiBimba from a conventional clipboard history tool. BiBimba automatically reads the text in screenshots and copied images with OCR, so a screenshot stops being a dead-end image and becomes searchable, copyable text. You can copy the specific text you need rather than retyping it, and if BiBimba detects a table in an image, it can turn that detected table into Markdown, JSON, or HTML. The site illustrates this with a receipt screenshot reading "Receipt total ¥12,400" — the kind of detail that is easy to capture in a screenshot and painful to recover later. Dedicated shortcuts support the workflow: ⌃⇧S takes a screenshot and ⌃⇧O runs screen OCR, and the history view explicitly points out that you can search text inside screenshots and copy the part you need. Once text is in front of you, BiBimba can act on it. Selected text can be translated, summarized, or rewritten, and the site lists the built-in actions with their keyboard shortcuts: Translate (⌃T), Summarize (⌃S), Business email (⌃M), Bullet list (⌃L), and Format a table (⌃R). There is also a Saved actions entry on ⌃K, so the instructions you use often can be run from the keyboard rather than retyped. These operations run from the keyboard, which means you never have to leave the app you are working in or break your flow to open another tool. The site notes that summaries, rewrites, and some other features require a supported setup with Apple Intelligence enabled, so the AI actions depend on the capabilities of the Mac you are using. Snippets give you a small library of reusable text — the site shows a saved snippet reading "Thanks for reaching out." — which you can reach with ⌃⇧B and find through the same search you use for clipboard and screenshot content. Privacy is handled by keeping everything local. Clipboard and screenshot history is stored on your Mac, not in the cloud. You choose how many items to keep and for how long, older items are removed automatically, and you can delete anything you no longer need at any time. The site also states there are no ads and no clipboard or feature-usage analytics, so what you copy and screenshot stays on your machine. BiBimba's overall approach is keyboard-first and local-first. Everything is reached through a small set of shortcuts rather than menus or browser tabs: ⌃⇧C to open history, ⌃⇧V to pick and paste, ⌃⇧B for snippets, ⌃⇧S for a screenshot, ⌃⇧O for screen OCR, and ⌃K for text actions. Copying, screenshots, and OCR output all feed the same searchable history, and the AI text actions run on-device on compatible Macs instead of sending your content to a remote service. When an action produces a result — a translation, a summary, a rewrite, or a table converted to Markdown, JSON, or HTML — you paste the result straight back into the app you were using. The workflow loops cleanly: capture, search, transform, paste. The benefit is time and recall. Because clipboard history and screenshot text are searchable together, something you copied an hour or a week ago is still findable by typing a few words, which removes the need to remember where it was saved or to copy it again. Extracting text from an image saves retyping and makes screenshots of receipts, error messages, and tables usable as data rather than as pictures. Converting a detected table into Markdown, JSON, or HTML means an image can flow straight into documentation or code. Running translate, summarize, and rewrite actions from the keyboard keeps you inside your current app, and keeping history on your Mac with automatic cleanup and no usage analytics keeps the whole thing low-maintenance and private. Concrete scenarios follow directly from how the product is described. A shopper screenshots a receipt and later searches for the total instead of scrolling through photos. A developer captures an error message in a screenshot, finds it again with OCR search, and copies just the part needed. A support or sales person keeps snippets like "Thanks for reaching out." ready for quick replies. Someone preparing documentation finds a table in a screenshot, extracts it, and outputs Markdown, JSON, or HTML. A user reading something in another language selects the text, runs Translate with ⌃T, and pastes the result where they need it. And anyone drafting correspondence can select text and run Business email (⌃M), Bullet list (⌃L), or Format a table (⌃R) without leaving the app they are working in. BiBimba runs on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 26 or later; summaries, rewrites, and some other features require a supported setup with Apple Intelligence enabled, and the site notes it cannot run on non-Apple-silicon devices. The interface is available in ten languages: Japanese, English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Arabic. Pricing is a one-time US$9 purchase covering 3 active Macs, with all 1.x updates included; buying again with the same email adds 3 more Macs. A 7-day free trial is available inside the app via ⌃T, with no email, card, or automatic billing required. Installation is a DMG download from the site, moving BiBimba to the Applications folder, with distribution through Apple notarization. Refunds can be requested through Link Support from the purchase receipt; requests made within 60 days of purchase are responded to based on the circumstances, without affecting local consumer rights. The takeaway is that BiBimba turns the clipboard from a one-slot memory into a searchable, local archive that also understands the text hidden inside images. For anyone who copies and screenshots constantly on a Mac, it offers a keyboard-driven way to find anything again, extract text with OCR, and translate, summarize, or rewrite it with on-device AI before pasting the result straight back into the work at hand.