v1.2.0 · macOS 14+ · Zero dependencies

Clip

Your Mac's sidekick for content creation.

Menu bar app + CLI that manages assets, transforms Markdown, and formats text for social media. Shake your mouse to summon it. Pipe content through the terminal.

Download DMG GitHub

The App

Four tabs, each purpose-built

Clip

🗂 Assets ⇄ Transform Aa Format 📄 Snippets

🗂 Assets       Drag in images & text, organise folders, drag out
⇄ Transform     Markdown ↔ HTML ↔ CSV ↔ TSV, auto-detected
Aa Formatter    **bold** → 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱  Unicode for LinkedIn, X, bios
📄 Snippets     Reusable text blocks, click to copy

The CLI

Same transforms, from the terminal

Terminal

$ echo "# Hello **world**" | clip md2html
<h1>Hello <strong>world</strong></h1>

$ echo "**bold** and _italic_" | clip md2social
𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 and 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤

$ clip md2social --clipboard
✓ clipboard transformed in-place

Features

Built for the workflow, not the feature list

🗂

The Vault

Drag in images and text, organise into folders, drag out to Keynote, Pages, or any app. JSON persistence, full-text search.

⇄

Smart Transforms

Paste content — Clip auto-detects Markdown, HTML, CSV, or TSV and offers the right conversions. Drag rendered previews as RTF.

Text Formatter

Unicode bold, italic, monospace, small caps for social media. Full Markdown-to-Unicode converter. ASCII box-drawing tables.

Install

Get it running in 30 seconds

Download the DMG or build from source

DMG (recommended)

# 1. Drag Clip.app to /Applications
# 2. Double-click "Install CLI.command"
# 3. Bypass Gatekeeper (not notarized):
$ xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Clip.app

Build from source

$ git clone https://github.com/blacklogos/markutils.git
$ cd markutils && swift run
# Install CLI:
$ bash scripts/install_cli.sh