Recap quietly remembers what you typed, even when you never got the chance to save or copy it. Double-tap ⌥ and it's right where you left off.
The moment
You're on the twelfth minute of a reply that's finally starting to sound right. Then the tab crashes. Or you fat-finger ⌘W. Or Slack just... closes, for no reason anyone can explain.
You never hit ⌘C — why would you, you were about to send it. So your clipboard manager has nothing. Paste has nothing. Maccy has nothing. They only remember what you copied, and you didn't copy anything.
Recap remembers what you typed, not what you copied. That's the whole trick — and it's the one thing every clipboard tool on your Mac quietly doesn't do.
This happens to people who write for a living about once a week. At 15–20 minutes of retyping each time, it adds up to an afternoon a month, gone.
How it works
You don't do anything differently. That's the point — Recap works while you forget it's there.
An email, a Notion doc, a Slack message. Recap quietly backs up what you're writing in the background, as you write it.
Free keeps your last 3 rescues. Pro keeps everything. Either way, it never leaves your Mac.
Recap opens with what you lost. Find it, grab it, paste it back where it was. Keep going.
What's inside
No dashboards to learn. Just the pieces that keep your writing safe and easy to find.
Quality gate
Three levels — Relaxed, Standard, Strict — decide what's worth keeping. Numbers-only text and short words get skipped automatically.
Full-text quick edit
Any snippet expands to its complete text. One key copies it — no squinting at a cramped card.
Search anything
Typos don't matter. Use a pattern when you need to. Find it in seconds, not by scrolling.
One-click exclude
Banking sites, password managers — exclude any app or site instantly. Nothing from them is ever captured.
Hints, your way
Recall shows on-screen hints for every shortcut. Turn them off once you've memorized them.
100% on-device
No cloud, no sync, no account. Everything lives in a local database only your Mac can read.
Privacy, not as a feature — as the design
This isn't a setting you have to find and turn on. It's how Recap is built.
Password fields are detected and skipped before Recap ever looks at them — not redacted afterward, never captured in the first place.
No cloud, no sync server, no account to create. If your Mac is off, there's nothing anywhere else to breach or subpoena.
Pause Recap anytime, or exclude specific apps and sites — banking, password managers — with one click.
Pricing
One-time purchase. No subscription, no renewal surprise.
Clipboard tools like Paste run 90 a year if you go lifetime — more if you don't. Recap is a single payment, once.
Free
The safety net. No catch.
Forever. No trial, no expiry.
Pro
For everything beyond your last 3.
One payment. No trial needed — Free already shows you how it works.
Not right for you? Just ask — refunds are no drama.
FAQ
No. Password fields are detected and skipped before Recap ever captures anything — this isn't a setting, it's how it's built, and it applies on Free too.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
On your Mac, in a local database. Nothing is uploaded, synced, or sent to a server — there isn't one. Recap works fine on a plane with no wifi.
No. Free keeps working forever — it just holds your last 3 rescues instead of your full history. Nothing gets deleted or locked away.
Yes. If Recap isn't for you, reach out and we'll sort it out — no interrogation.