TomTrove
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TomTrove for Mac

Free clipboard history, no sign-up needed. Once you log in, select foreign-language text in Slack, Teams, email or a web page and press ⌥E to get an explanation, or press ⌥R to polish what you've written and put it back.

Download for Mac

Version 2026.11.1 · 2.5 MB · Requires macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

⌥V

Clipboard · Saved replies · Materials

Press ⌥V to open the panel: copied text, saved replies and materials from your knowledge base are all here. Search, press Return, and it's pasted into the field you were in. Copied foreign-language text can be explained with one click on “Explain”. Clipboard history doesn't require logging in; items copied from password managers aren't recorded.

⌥E

Explain

Select a message someone sent you and press ⌥E. A panel shows its meaning, tone, what they're asking for, and a few suggested replies you can copy or add to your saved replies.

Explain result: meaning, tone, intent, suggested replies
⌥R

Polish

Write what you want to say in a text field, in your native language or the one you're learning, and press ⌥R. Pick natural, formal or casual, then click “Replace” to write it back into the field.

Polish result: three tones, with Replace and Copy buttons

Install

  1. 1Open the downloaded TomTrove.dmg and drag TomTrove into Applications.
  2. 2Open TomTrove and log in with Google or email. It's the same account as the phone and web versions.
  3. 3When prompted, turn on TomTrove in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. This permission is needed to read selected text and write back into text fields.
  4. 4The window includes a practice exercise: select the sample message and press ⌥E, then press ⌥R in the sample text field. For clipboard history alone, you don't need to log in.
  • Sentences you send in the language you're learning, in any app, are recorded. When one isn't quite idiomatic, a better phrasing is suggested and added to your reviews; you can see these in the menu bar menu. You can turn this off in the menu. Password fields are never read.
  • If you also have ClipArc installed: TomTrove already includes its clipboard features, and the menu will ask you to choose one so the history isn't recorded twice.
  • On a US keyboard, ⌥E is also used to type é. If you write French or Spanish, you can change the shortcuts to ⌃⌥E / ⌃⌥R / ⌃⌥V in the menu bar menu.
  • Words and sentences you use are added to your reviews, which you can do on your phone or on the web.
  • Daily limits are shared with the phone and web versions. See Pricing.