Capture on
⌥⌘C
⌥⌘C
Step 1
Turn on capture mode
Press Option-Command-C. The menu-bar icon lights up so you always know when CopyDown is collecting.
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CopyDown for Mac · coming to the Mac App Store
Copy many things.
Copy many things.
Paste them all at once.
CopyDown is a small menu-bar app for when one copy isn’t enough. Turn on capture mode, copy the way you always do, then paste the whole collection, text and screenshots in order, with one shortcut.
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- Apple silicon & Intel
- No account, no cloud
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lisbon-weekend-guide.example
Three days in Lisbon
A slow-travel guide · 6 min read
Base yourself in Alfama: 3 nights in Alfama, Oct 14–17 is enough to see the old town at an easy pace. Most flights land mid-morning; Flight TP 204 departs 9:40 AM, Terminal 1 from London.
The iconic yellow tram is the best way up the hills. Tram 28 runs every 12–15 minutes from Martim Moniz, so go early to beat the queue. Pastéis de Belém opens at 8 AM.
Added to Group 1 · 6 items
Screenshot added to Group 1
⌥⌘V
Group copied. Paste anywhere with ⌘V
⌥⌘Ccapture on
⌘Ccopy as usual
⌥⌘Vpaste all
Pastes cleanly into
Notes
Pages
Mail
TextEdit
Google Docs
Word
Numbers
Excel
Google Sheets
Any text field
How it works
Three shortcuts. Zero new habits.
You already know how to copy. CopyDown just remembers everything you copied, until you’re ready to paste it.
⌘C
1Northwind Traders
2$96,000 / year
3northwind.example/jobs
Step 2
Copy the way you always do
Every Command-C adds to your current group: a name, a link, a price, a quote, an error message. Press ⌥⌘S to grab a screenshot too.
Job search.pages
- Northwind Traders
- $96,000 / year
- northwind.example/jobs
- Paste here
⌥⌘V
Step 3
Paste the whole group
Press ⌥⌘V to copy the group, then ⌘V anywhere. Turn capture off and copying works exactly as normal.
Try it here
Get a feel for capture mode in 20 seconds.
Turn capture on, then select any text below and press ⌘C, or tap a snippet. This is a small in-browser preview; the real app works across every app on your Mac.
team-offsite-notes.example
Planning the spring offsite in Porto
We shortlisted Casa do Rio, a meeting room for 20 at €450 per day, a ten-minute walk from the river. The fastest train from Lisbon takes 2 h 50 min, first departure 6:09 AM, and the hotel holds a group rate if we book before April 18.
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Group 10 items
Nothing here yet.
Turn on capture and copy something.
Capture mode is off. Copying works as normal.
Text & screenshots
Collect everything you copy.
Press ⌥ ⌘ S and drag over any part of the screen. The screenshot joins the group. Paste into Notes, Pages, Mail, TextEdit or Google Docs and your text and screenshots arrive together, in the order you collected them.
- Each item on its own line, or its own paragraph in Notes, Pages, Word and Google Docs
- Nothing gets saved to your Desktop
- Drag to reorder, fix a typo, delete one item or clear a group
- Saved automatically, even after you restart your Mac
Pasted into your spreadsheet
| A | B | C | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Company | Role | Salary |
| 2 | Northwind Traders | Product Designer | $96,000 |
| 3 | Contoso | iOS Engineer | $128,000 |
| 4 | Fabrikam | Data Analyst | $84,000 |
Table mode
Tables that paste into spreadsheets.
Switch a group to Table mode with ⌥ ⌘ T and each copy fills the next cell, left to right, then the next row. Name your columns and paste into Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets as real rows and columns, with the header row if you want it.
Name columns
Optional header row
Edit & clear cells
Move & swap cells
Notes
Remember why you copied it.
Press ⌥ ⌘ ⏎ right after a copy to write a quick note about it. When you paste the list, each note appears indented under its item.
Pastes as
- Remote work raised reported productivity by 13% in a 9-month study
Use in the intro. Cite the original paper.
- Survey: 2,400 respondents across 11 countries
Add to the methodology
Built for real work
Nine groups. Your shortcuts.
Keep separate collections for separate tasks and switch with ⌥⌘1 to 9. Every shortcut can be changed or removed in Settings.
⌥⌘
1234…9
Nine groups for nine projects
A trip, a report, a job search. Everything is saved automatically and is still there after you quit or restart your Mac.
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Your shortcuts, your way
Change or remove any shortcut. Launch at login, optional sounds, and on-screen confirmations you can hide.
Private by design
Your clipboard stays on your Mac.
CopyDown works entirely on your Mac. It only reads what you copy while capture mode is on, and only takes a screenshot when you ask it to.
Read the privacy policy100% on-device
No servers involved
No account
Open it and go
No cloud
Nothing is uploaded
No tracking
No analytics, no ads
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About DevMind
A small studio that ships.
DevMind Consulting LLC is an independent software company. We design and build our own products, starting with CopyDown, and we help businesses work out where AI genuinely helps, then build it with them.
Being small is a feature: the people who answer your email are the people who write the code.
CopyDown
Flagship productMenu-bar app for macOS that collects text and screenshots into groups and tables. Coming to the Mac App Store.
AI consulting
Workshops, prototypes and production integrations of large language models into real business workflows.
More in the lab
We’re prototyping more small, focused tools for Mac and mobile. Quality over quantity.
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Privacy by default
We don’t collect what we don’t need. CopyDown runs entirely on your Mac.
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Small and senior
No layers, no hand-offs. You work directly with the engineers.
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Native and focused
Software that does one job well and feels at home on the platform.
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Ship, listen, improve
Every “Give Feedback” message is read by the people building the app.
What we’re working on
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Now
CopyDown 1.0 launch
Final polish and Mac App Store release of our first product.
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Ongoing
AI consulting engagements
Helping teams move from “we should use AI” to something that works in production.
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Next
CopyDown updates
Improvements driven by what users tell us. Send yours from the app.
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