Unclutter 2.2.18 for macOS

Version 2.2.18 is a housekeeping release that squashes a single, strange bug: the Settings window popping up on its own. If you've been seeing that, this update stops it cold.

Runs on High Sierra and Apple Silicon

Unclutter works on any Mac running macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later. It runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon machines—there's no separate version to worry about. The app comes localized in Russian, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, French, and Japanese. If your Mac is still on Sierra or older, you're out of luck; the installer simply won't open.

Menu bar drawer with persistent clipboard

The app lives in your menu bar and opens a three-panel drawer that slides down from the top of the screen. One panel holds a clipboard history that survives restarts and reboots—you can flag clips you want to keep permanently in a separate list. The second panel gives you a spot for desktop sticky notes. The third acts as a temporary shelf where you can drop files, images, links, and text snippets until you need them. Recent versions added AppleScript support so you can trigger commands from other apps, and earlier bug fixes cleaned up a memory leak during icon generation along with a rare crash when dragging the panels around.

Your clipboard survives overnight restarts

Does the clipboard history survive a restart? Yes — that's one of the first things you notice. Close your Mac at night, open it in the morning, and yesterday's clips are still sitting there. The app writes everything to disk as you go.

Will it sync between my iMac and my MacBook? It can, if you point the storage folder at Dropbox. Both machines read from the same set of files, so your notes, saved clips, and temporary files follow you around without any extra steps. Just don't point it at an iCloud Drive folder that's set to offload files — earlier builds tripped over that, and while 2.2.16d fixed the freezing, it's still simpler to use Dropbox for this.

Does it get in the way when I'm in full-screen apps? The panel slides down from the menu bar, so if you're in true full-screen mode you have to mouse up to the top edge first. Some people set a hot corner or a keyboard shortcut to trigger it; the AppleScript hooks added in 2.2.15d let you wire it into a launcher like Alfred, too.

Gather quotes, text, and photos temporarily

Say you're pulling together a quote for a client. You copy three prices from a spreadsheet, a paragraph from last year's proposal, and a photo of the site. None of it is final — you just need a place to park it while you draft the email.

You swipe down from the menu bar. The left panel shows every clip in order. You click the photo and it pops into the file shelf. The text snippets sit in the clipboard list, and you drag the one you need straight into Mail. While you type, a sticky note sits open in the middle panel with the client's odd window-size requirements you always forget. Nothing gets lost between apps, and nothing lives on the actual desktop.

Version 2.2.18 fixes an old annoyance where the Settings window could appear unexpectedly without being summoned.

• macOS 10.13 or later
• Intel 64-bit processor