Cubby
Your Mac's little details, one keystroke away
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Cubby - Your Mac's little details, one keystroke away

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Cubby lives in your Mac's menu bar. Hit a hotkey and an elegant panel pops up with your named compartments β€” phone, API keys, bank details, snippets. Type, press return, it's copied. On-device AI finds anything by meaning. 100% local. Nothing leaves your Mac.

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Stop digging through browsers, notes, and old chats for that one value you saved somewhere. Cubby is a native macOS menu-bar app that keeps the little things you look up constantly β€” phone numbers, API keys, bank details, addresses, boilerplate β€” in named compartments you control ("Personal", "API Keys", "Bank"). Press βŒ˜β‡§Space from anywhere β†’ the panel springs up β†’ type to filter β†’ hit return β†’ it's on your clipboard and gone. About a second, end to end. What makes it different: πŸ—‚οΈ Curated, not a clipboard dump. These are your buckets, not a time-ordered history to scroll. ✨ On-device AI smart find. Type "my bank number" and the right entry floats up β€” no exact words needed. πŸͺ„ Auto-organize on paste. Paste a Stripe key, a PAN, a card number β€” Cubby recognizes it, files it, and marks it secret. πŸ” Keychain-backed secrets, masked until you reveal them. πŸ›‘οΈ 100% on-device. No accounts, no servers, no telemetry. Even the AI runs locally. Free for up to 15 cubbies. Lifetime $49 β€” $29 for the first 500 (code FOUNDERS). Built for macOS 14+, signed & notarized by Apple.

One thing I'd love to see is the option to set per-compartment auto-clear timers, so anything sensitive like bank details disappears from the clipboard after a few seconds. Right now I have to remember to wipe it manually.

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Β Done β€” 1.2.0 adds a per-compartment auto-clear timer πŸ”’ Set Bank to wipe the clipboard 15s after you copy, leave Personal off. Exactly what you described. No more manual wiping.

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The on-device semantic search is genuinely impressive, found my obscure API key with a vague description. Menu bar pop-up feels snappy and stays out of the way, which is exactly what I want from this kind of tool.

the on-device semantic search is genuinely thoughtful β€” most clipboard managers only do exact match so finding that one api key by vague memory is usually a nightmare. love that it stays local too.

Love the on-device approach and the clean menu bar workflow. One thing that would make it stickier for me: a way to right-click any text anywhere on macOS and send it straight into a compartment without opening the panel.

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Β This is live now in 1.3.0 πŸŽ‰ Select any text, right-click β†’ Services β†’ Add to Cubby, and a compartment picker pops up right at your cursor β€” filed without ever opening the panel. You can even bind a global shortcut to it in System Settings β†’ Keyboard β†’ Keyboard Shortcuts β†’ Services, so it's select β†’ keystroke β†’ pick β†’ done. Exactly the "without opening the panel" flow you wanted. Thanks for pushing on this one β€” it genuinely made Cubby stickier. (Cubby auto-updates, so you'll get it in the background.)

Love how clean the panel feels and the on-device search is genuinely fast. One thing that would make it a daily driver for me is per-compartment hotkeys, so I can jump straight to my most used ones without cycling through. Right now I have to open Cubby every time even when I just want my AWS key.

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Β This is live as of 1.2.0 πŸŽ‰ Every cubby can now have its own global hotkey β€” press it anywhere and the top entry copies straight to your clipboard, no window, no cycling. Set it in the cubby's editor or Settings β†’ Compartment shortcuts. Your AWS key is now one keypress away. (If you're on an older build, grab 1.2.0 once and it'll auto-update itself from here on.)

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the on-device semantic search actually works which caught me off guard, asked it for my stripe test key and it pulled the right one from a mess of old snippets

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Β This made my day πŸ™ The whole point of the on-device embeddings was exactly that "wait, it actually found it" moment β€” so hearing it land means a lot. And zero of that leaves your Mac. Thanks for giving it a real run.

Finally tried Cubby this morning and the semantic search actually found a random WiFi password I'd saved weeks ago without remembering the exact label. Really slick that it all stays on-device.