Developers of Unite, an app that provides customized web app management on Macs, released a new app called Quip, a clipboard app for the Apple ecosystem on Monday. The app includes features to organize text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, code formatting and more.
The goal is to provide users with more control and customization compared to traditional clipboards, making it a more productive alternative.
QUIP is out of the way – On Macs, it has a special keyboard that resides in the menu bar and maintains a universal clipboard with the history of everything you copy across your device. You can also easily search history, customize the time frame and save items along with the maximum and maximum item sizes. You can filter these items by text, links, images, code, files, and Remency.
QUIP allows you to add clipboard items to your collection for easy access later. Additionally, you can create smart collections to automatically add specific clipboard items to these collections.
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When the app accesses all kinds of data, the company has built customizable privacy controls.
By default, the app ignores data such as passwords, credit cards, and personal identifiable data from that clip history. It also ignores temporary data such as caches, auto-generated data, and debugging information. You can further customize this to tell your app to ignore certain apps and keywords on your clipboard.
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One of the useful features of the app is “SuperShortCut.” This allows you to define short phrases for text expansion. For example, you can write the address to “SuperShortCut” and paste the details using the trigger keyword “ADDR”. This also works with links and code.
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QUIP also allows you to capture on-screen content from presentations, videos, and PDFs via trigger shortcuts.
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Additionally, the app has some smart features, such as URL cleanup, preventing duplicate history entries, cleanup of white spaces, and automatic code formatting.
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The app supports Apple's Continuity Camera Feature and allows you to post sketches, documents, or photos from your iPhone to Mac using the Menubar app.
App developer Bynyamin Goldman said the company uses the old Apple NLP (Natural Language Processing) feature for the app's on-device intelligent features. He said he will switch to Apple's offline AI model later this year to explore more capabilities. Goldman previously only had partial development work on an app created by his company, he told TechCrunch via email.
But he does a lot of work with QUIP thanks to AI tools like Cursor and Claude, he says.
Try Quip for free for 2 weeks for free and pay $14.99 a year to access the app on iOS, iPados and Macos. You can also purchase a standalone license for the MAC app for $19.99.