Clove

A lightweight macOS menu bar app that turns your clipboard history, screenshots, and downloads into a frosted-glass inventory panel - inspired by the item grid from Animal Crossing.

• Clipboard - automatically captures text snippets and copied images
• Screenshots - watches ~/Desktop for new screenshots (where macOS saves them by default)
• Downloads - watches ~/Downloads for new files
• Holds up to 10 items (configurable up to 50) with persistence across sessions
• Green copy button on hover to paste any item back to clipboard
• Red capacity warning when full - choose to replace oldest or adjust the limit

git clone https://github.com/andreycpu/clove.git
cd clove
bash setup.sh

That's it. The script builds the app, installs it to /Applications, configures it to start automatically at login, and launches it. No need to open Xcode.

• macOS 13.0+
• Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install)
• Homebrew (xcodegen is installed automatically)

bash uninstall.sh

• Cmd+Shift+V - toggle the Clove panel from anywhere
• Click the menu bar icon - also toggles the panel
• Click anywhere outside - dismisses the panel
• Press 1-9 - copy the corresponding item back to clipboard and dismiss
• Hover an item - reveals the green copy button
• Escape - dismiss the panel
• Settings - click the gear icon to adjust the item limit and clear history

• Frosted glass (.hudWindow vibrancy) pill panel drops down from the menu bar
• Zero CPU at rest - clipboard uses a timer with OS-batched tolerance, folder watching uses kernel-level DispatchSource events
• Images stored as compressed 80x80 JPEG thumbnails - original files are never duplicated
• All data persists to ~/Library/Application Support/Clove/items.json

MIT