Search everything you copy, even text inside screenshots
Buffer 3.0 is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. Everything you copy text, links, images is saved to a searchable local history, one ⇧⌘V away. It reads text inside screenshots with on-device Vision OCR, lets you edit any saved snippet inline, and organizes clips with tags, bookmarks, and multi-select paste. v3.0 adds an interactive image canvas, history tiers up to unlimited, and clipboard noise suppression. MIT-licensed. No accounts, no cloud — everything stays on your Mac.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built Buffer because I constantly lost snippets, commands, and bits of text between apps. Existing clipboard managers felt heavy, cluttered, or tried to sync everything to the cloud.
Buffer is a small, native macOS menu bar app that:
– Keeps a searchable history of everything you copy (text + images)
– Lets you open it from anywhere with ⇧⌘V
– Runs Apple’s on-device Vision OCR to extract text from screenshots, fully offline
– Stores everything locally on your Mac — no accounts, no cloud
I’d love feedback on the UX, performance, and what you’d like to see next (filters, better image handling, multi-device, etc.).
Thanks for checking it out!
About Buffer on Product Hunt
“Search everything you copy, even text inside screenshots”
Buffer launched on Product Hunt on October 10th, 2026 and earned 72 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #21 on the daily leaderboard. Buffer 3.0 is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS. Everything you copy text, links, images is saved to a searchable local history, one ⇧⌘V away. It reads text inside screenshots with on-device Vision OCR, lets you edit any saved snippet inline, and organizes clips with tags, bookmarks, and multi-select paste. v3.0 adds an interactive image canvas, history tiers up to unlimited, and clipboard noise suppression. MIT-licensed. No accounts, no cloud — everything stays on your Mac.
On the analytics side, Buffer competes within Mac, Productivity and GitHub — topics that collectively have 808.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Buffer performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Buffer ?
Buffer was hunted by Samir Patil. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Buffer including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Samir Patil