BiBimba

BiBimba is a Mac clipboard manager that keeps clipboard history and screenshots searchable together, in one place you can reach from the keyboard. It is built for people who copy and paste constantly — writers, developers, support teams, researchers, and anyone who has ever lost a snippet, a link, or a receipt total the moment they copied something else. Its stated purpose is simple: you do not need to remember where something was saved. Instead, you search for it, choose the item, and paste it back into the app you were using. The problem BiBimba addresses is the ephemeral nature of the clipboard and the opacity of screenshots. A normal Mac clipboard holds one item at a time; copy something new and the previous content is gone. Screenshots are harder still — they are images, so the text inside them cannot be searched, quoted, or reused without retyping it. The site describes a workflow where text lives in copied links, copied images, screenshots, receipts, and error messages, and where finding any of it later means remembering where it was stored. BiBimba instead indexes what you copy and reads the text inside what you capture, so a receipt total or an error message can be found again later and pasted as just the part you need. The first capability group is search. BiBimba searches Mac clipboard history, screenshots, text inside images, and snippets together. You open history, type a few words, and BiBimba returns matching items drawn from copied text, copied images, OCR-extracted text, and saved snippets. The site shows the search surface ranking a copied Safari URL, an OCR result labelled with the receipt total ¥12,400, and a saved snippet side by side, along with a filter such as @ocr showing a count of matching items, for example six. Navigation is keyboard-first, with ⌃N and ⌃P to move through results. Because OCR text is indexed alongside copied text, the words printed inside an image become searchable in the same way a typed sentence would be. The second group is OCR. BiBimba automatically reads text in screenshots and copied images with OCR, so the content of a picture stops being inert. Copying the text you need out of an image is one option; another is converting a detected table into Markdown, JSON, or HTML, which turns a screenshot of a table into structured data you can paste into a document, a data file, or markup. Screenshots are captured with ⌃⇧S and screen OCR runs with ⌃⇧O, so the capture-to-text path stays on the keyboard. The site's example is a receipt: BiBimba reads 'Receipt total ¥12,400' from the image, lets you search text inside screenshots, and lets you copy only the part you need rather than the whole picture. The third group is text actions. BiBimba can translate, summarize, or rewrite selected text, and it runs these actions from the keyboard rather than from a menu. The site lists translation on ⌃T, summarization on ⌃S, a business-email rewrite on ⌃M, a bullet list on ⌃L, and table formatting on ⌃R, plus saved actions on ⌃K for instructions you have stored yourself. These are described as running on-device AI on compatible Macs, so the text you are processing does not have to leave the machine. The workflow is deliberately short: recall or select the text, press the shortcut for the action, and get a result you can paste into the app you were using — for example turning a draft into a business email or condensing a long copied passage into a summary. BiBimba's overall approach is keyboard-first and local-first. The site opens with the claim that everything happens 'all from your keyboard' and lists the shortcut set that drives the app: ⌃⇧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. When an item is selected, Return (↩) pastes it and Shift+Return pastes it as plain text, with text actions available on ⌃K. Instead of switching to a separate app, the sequence is open, search, pick, paste. Storage is handled locally too: clipboard and screenshot history is stored on your Mac, 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 states there are no ads and no clipboard or feature-usage analytics, and that AI features run on-device on compatible Macs. The stated outcomes follow from that design. Search means you no longer need to remember where something was saved — if you copied it, or it was in a screenshot, BiBimba can surface it by typing a few words. OCR means text trapped in images becomes reusable, and because a detected table can be exported as Markdown, JSON, or HTML, it can become structured data rather than an image you have to read across the screen. Text actions mean routine rewriting work — translation, summarizing, turning notes into a business email or a bullet list, formatting a table — can be done in place with a shortcut instead of in another tool. Privacy and retention controls mean the history you accumulate stays on the Mac, with limits you set and automatic removal of older items, and the app's description notes that no ads or clipboard and feature-usage analytics are used. The one-time price model is also presented as an outcome: a single purchase covers three active Macs, with all 1.x updates included. Concrete scenarios on the site are drawn from everyday clipboard use. A receipt you screenshotted earlier can be found by searching for the total and pasted as the number alone. An error message visible in a screenshot can be OCR'd and searched later instead of being retyped into a search engine or a bug report. A copied link can be retrieved from history after you have copied over it. A snippet such as 'Thanks for reaching out.' can be stored once and pasted repeatedly. A table detected in an image can be converted to Markdown, JSON, or HTML for a document or a data file. Selected text can be translated, summarized, rewritten as a business email, turned into a bullet list, or formatted as a table. In every case, the site frames the workflow as find it, pick it, use it: search, choose an item, and paste it back into the app you were using. BiBimba requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later, and it is distributed as a DMG that you move to your Applications folder and open, signed with Apple notarization. Summaries, rewrites, and some other features require a supported setup with Apple Intelligence enabled, and AI features are described as on-device on compatible Macs. 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 three active Macs and including all 1.x updates; buying again with the same email adds three more Macs. A 7-day free trial is available in the app via 'Start 7-day free trial' (⌃T), with no email, card, or automatic billing required. Refunds can be requested through Link Support from the purchase receipt, and requests made within 60 days of purchase are answered based on the circumstances. BiBimba's value proposition is a single, keyboard-driven place where everything you copy and everything you screenshot stays findable: search clipboard history and screenshots together, read text out of images with OCR, and translate, summarize, or rewrite what you find with on-device AI on compatible Macs, then paste the result straight back into the app you were using. History stays on your Mac with retention limits you choose, and the product is sold as a one-time US$9 purchase for three active Macs.