Developer builds sandboxed macOS clipboard manager with OCR and smart actions

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A developer has released ClipMason, a Mac App Store clipboard manager designed to act on copied content rather than just store it, offering features like OCR, text transformations, and smart tagging. The app was built entirely within Apple's App Store sandbox, without relying on the Accessibility API, using tools like VNRecognizeTextRequest for OCR and Carbon's RegisterEventHotKey for global shortcuts. One notable limitation is the inability to auto-paste into other apps, since that requires the Accessibility API, which is unavailable in the sandbox. The app also respects the community convention of ignoring password manager entries on the clipboard, preventing sensitive data from entering clipboard history. ClipMason is available on the Mac App Store for $6.99, ships as a 2.9 MB binary with no network code, and supports 17 languages.

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