BasicClips is your digital storehouse for links, articles, images, files, notes, media, maps, products, quotes, and more. Quickly save that link, thought, reference, or thing you swear you’ll come back to, and BasicClips automatically enriches each clip with titles, thumbnails, sources, descriptions, and useful metadata.

From research and inspiration to design references, reading lists, and the links you don’t want to lose, BasicClips keeps everything organized and in sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Clip ’N’ Go

BasicClips makes saving the things you want to remember fast and easy. Hit the plus button, it’s really big, you can’t miss it, and a menu pops up so you can quickly save a clip, with the option to add tags, notes, and folders along the way.

Across all platforms, you can also use the Share Sheet extension from most apps to send things straight to BasicClips. And on macOS, the gorgeous little menu bar applet and handy drop zone make it easy to save what you need and get on with your day. It really could not be much simpler.

Organized to the Extreme

Leave everything in one glorious pile, or organize your clips with an almost unreasonable amount of care. Sort by category, file into folders, add tags, colour-code everything, choose custom icons, and build a system that works exactly the way your brain does.

Metadata Magic

BasicClips uses a bunch of smartypants fetchers behind the scenes to make every clip you save as rich and useful as possible. Save a Maps link and BasicClips can pull in the image, location, and coordinates. Save a YouTube video and it can grab the creator, runtime, and description. Save an article and it can collect the title, author, source, description, and even use on-device Apple Intelligence to generate a summary.

Brains? Beauty? BasicClips Has Both.

Customize the look and feel of BasicClips with nearly two dozen themes that look great in both light and dark mode, along with colour packs for tags and folders. Every corner of the app has been obsessively thought through to feel simple, responsive, and streamlined as possible.

Free to Use, Nice to Support

Listen, I want to be a millionaire. I really do. But I chose a life working in public healthcare, so I waved goodbye to that dream a long, long time ago.

BasicClips is a labour of love. There are no weekly subscriptions, clip limits, paywalls, or ads. However, if you try BasicClips and it adds some value to your life, consider supporting my work with a in-app purchase through the app.