Raycast is also a Spotlight replacement that's very good and has a built-in clipboard history manager.

https://www.raycast.com

Everything that the OP listed it does out of the box (keyboard control, previews, searchable, etc). I'm very confused at what they found it was lacking.

Raycast is great, although I'm a little annoyed that unlimited clipboard history is behind a $10/month paywall – annoying given that it's just a config setting, I'm running the compute and storage.

I just saw the parent comment about alfred, enabled the clipboard history extension in raycast, gave it a cmd+shift+v hotkey, and then read your comment about it being behind a paywall?

Are you talking about a different none-extension clipboard history? I'm not paying for it and it works nicely.

Raycast only keeps history for up to 3 months unless you pay for it, then you can choose 6/12/unlimited. That has always felt like a silly limitation, and quite disconnected from a $10/month price.

Yea, OP says it doesn't meet their requirements, but Alfred does every requirement they list. It is paid, but I paid 12 years ago and my license key is still working. Great dev(s?).

+1 the Alfred devs are lovely people.

Alfred is a good software, but I miss the possibility to resize the clipboard history window to see more content in the preview panel. Same issue (for me) in Raycast. If someone knows how to enable such possibility, please share with us.

It shows 15 items by default, which seems more than enough for me, and also offers search/filtering. But if for some reason that's not enough, then I guess it does miss out on that one item. I can't possibly imagine why you would need to see more results on the screen at one time, but everyone has different needs I suppose!

Maybe I wasn't clear. I was talking about the preview panel. Sometimes I copy content of a source code (*.cpp) file, and I need to quickly look at what I have copied in the preview panel. I have to scroll a lot to look at the source code. In ClipBook I just resize the clipboard history window to see more in the preview panel without scrolling.

Alfred just doesn't meet my requirements. The filters don't work for my needs.

As does LaunchBar, the Great Grand-Parent of all cmd-space launchers.

While I can’t claim to have used it in the NeXT era, I am pretty sure I have since Mac OS X Beta

https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

I thought Quicksilver was older, but you're correct, LB goes back to NS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaunchBar#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksilver_(software)#History

oh wow I always thought Quicksilver was the first one (after Spotlight of course)

Another happy Alfred user here. Mostly for the clipboard history, snippets, workflows.

Same here, it’s simple and reliable.

BetterTouchTool also supports clipboard history, it's just not assigned to any shortcut by default.

https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/8_clipboardmanager.html