Capture on iPhone
iOS doesn't let apps watch your clipboard in the background, so Clypy gives you one motion instead.
Clypy for students
From phone to laptop, nothing gets dropped
You find the reading on your phone and write the essay on your laptop. Clypy carries the quotes, links and photos between them, and keeps every one searchable until finals.
- PHIL 201Essay sources
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
- Apology 38a, Grube trans.
- jstor.org/stable/…
- CS 106Problem sets
- def merge(a, b):
- Spec: PS4, due Thu
- piazza.com/class/…
- BIO 110Lab notes
- Photo: whiteboard, week 6
- Buffer: 50 mM Tris, pH 7.4
- Lab report template
- ThesisReading list
- Leroy (2009), attention residue
- Ch. 2 outline v3
- Supervisor’s notes, Oct 2
Phone → laptop
Copy on the bus. Paste at your desk.
On Android, switching to the Clypy keyboard saves what you just copied, and it saves every copy while it stays selected. iPhone doesn't let apps watch your clipboard, so there Clypy gives you one motion to save a clip: Back Tap, the Action button or the share sheet. It's in the strip on your laptop by the time you open the essay.
Send files
The whole lecture, not just a line
For a two-hour recording or forty photos of slides, Send files moves the files themselves from your phone to your laptop, at full size, and saves them to Downloads. They go straight across your Wi-Fi, encrypted, and never land in your clip history. Both devices need to be on the same network, and some campus networks keep devices apart.
How sending files worksA whole semester
Everything you copied this term, still there at finals
The system clipboard forgets every time you copy. Clypy keeps all of it, and searches it by meaning, so you find the source for a footnote in seconds instead of rebuilding it.
- Week 1
Syllabus links, reading list, the lab report template.
- Week 5
Quotes from three readings, a friend's notes, a photo of the board.
- Week 9
Midterm season. Problem-set snippets and half an essay outline.
- Week 14search: “elenchus”
Finals, 2am. The quote from week 5 is the first result, with the app it came from.
Search inside photos
Photograph the slide. Search its words later.
Clypy reads the text in your photos and screenshots on your own device. The whiteboard from week 6 comes up when you search for what was written on it, and you can paste that text straight into your notes.
“krebs cycle”“due date”“wifi”
The Wi-Fi password only exists in a screenshot. Search for it anyway: Clypy reads the text in your images on your own device, and pastes it as text.
Paste stack
Forty internship applications. The same five fields.
Queue your details once, in the order the forms want them. Then in each form, every ⌘V pastes the next one: Tab, paste, Tab, paste. Keep your details in a collection and the next queue takes seconds.
Queue the clips a form needs with ⌥S, arm the stack with ⌘⌥S, and every ⌘V pastes the next one. A whole shipping form, filled with ⌘V and Tab.
- 3Student ID
- LinkedIn URL
- Portfolio link
What it costs
Free for your laptop. Pay once for everything else.
Unlimited local history, search and collections are free, with no card. Lifetime Pro adds your phone and every other device for $29.99 once: no subscription to cancel when the term ends.
Free
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- Unlimited local clip history
- Local-only history on every installation
- Collections, search & local AI
Is there a student discount?
There's no separate student plan. Unlimited local history, search and collections are free with no card. Lifetime Pro, which adds pairing and sync, is $29.99 once with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
How do I get something from my phone onto my laptop?
Pair them once with a QR code. Then copy it on Android and switch to the Clypy keyboard, or save it on iPhone with Back Tap, the Action button or the share sheet, and it's in the strip on your laptop while both are online. For whole files, like a lecture recording, use Send files: it moves them over your Wi-Fi to the laptop's Downloads. Pairing, sending files, the keyboards and the iPhone shortcuts are part of Pro.
Can I search photos of lecture slides?
Yes. Clypy reads the text in images on your device, so a photo of a slide or whiteboard comes up when you search for what was written on it.
Does it work offline, in the library basement?
Yes. History, search and text recognition all run on your device. Sync catches up when your devices are next online together.
Which devices does it support?
macOS, Windows and Linux with the Paste Strip, and iPhone and Android with the Clypy keyboard and share sheet. One Pro licence covers them all.
More use cases
Clypy fits however you work
DevelopersCommands, env values and stack traces, on whichever machine you're at.See howDesignersScreenshots, swatches and references you can find by looking.See howWriters & researchersCapture research, quotes and drafts before the next copy replaces them.See howSales & supportYour best replies on number keys, personal in five seconds.See how