Changelog

Every release, newest first.

Every release, newest first. This is also the human half of what the app shows you when it offers an update, so entries stay short.

0.1.10 · 2026-08-12

Changed

  • Nine Boxes is now signed by Chase Your Solutions LLC. Earlier builds were signed in a personal name. macOS shows the company on this one. The developer account behind it is the same, so your Accessibility permission should carry over untouched.
  • Help points at an address that works. Questions from inside the app now go to chase@chaseyoursolutions.com. The address earlier builds showed did not deliver anywhere.

0.1.9 · 2026-08-11

Changed

  • Boxes you cannot save to now look like it. On Free, boxes 3 to 9 sit dimmed with a lock, and any box holding something you can no longer save to is marked Read-only. Nothing was ever hidden, but it was too easy to miss which boxes were which.
  • Anything already in those boxes stays there and can still be copied out. Your content is yours whether you are paying or not.

0.1.8 · 2026-08-11

Added

  • Sign out, on the Account tab. If you signed in with the wrong address, or you are passing this Mac on to somebody else, you can now leave. Your boxes and history stay on the Mac, and your subscription follows your email address back whenever you sign in again.
  • After signing out you land straight on a fresh start, ready to sign in with a different address. Nothing to restart and nothing to reinstall.

Changed

  • The guide now says exactly what leaves your Mac and what does not. Nothing you copy is ever sent anywhere. Signing in, checking your subscription, and the once a day check for a new version are the only things that leave, and none of them carry anything you copied.

0.1.6 · 2026-08-10

Everything found by testing on a second Mac, which is where most of these only show up.

Fixed

  • Signing in when you already have an account. If you bought on the website or set up a second Mac, the app used to say your email was already taken and leave you stuck on the trial. It now signs you in to the account you already have.
  • Pressing Escape really cancels. Starting a save and then changing your mind used to leave the copied text on your clipboard with no way back. Whatever was there before is now put back exactly as it was.
  • One copy, one entry. Some apps write to the clipboard several times for a single copy, and each one was showing up separately in your history.
  • Passwords copied from Apple Passwords and Keychain Access are never recorded. These do not mark what they copy the way other password managers do, so the app now keeps a list of apps it never reads from. You can add your own in Preferences.
  • Clearer help when the permission looks granted but nothing works. The app used to suggest a fix that could remove a working permission. It now tells apart the three reasons this happens and only offers the one that applies.
  • No more phantom warning in the log about permission being taken away when nothing had changed.

Added

  • Nine Boxes now tells you when there is an update. It checks once a day and asks before installing anything. It sends the app version and your macOS version, and nothing else.

0.1.0 · 2026-08-08

The first release. Nine Boxes is in final testing.

  • Nine numbered boxes. Save to one with ⌘⌃C and a digit, paste it back with ⌘⌃V and the same digit.
  • The HUD. Hold the paste shortcut without pressing a digit and all nine boxes appear, numbered, with a preview of what is in each one.
  • Type to search instead of counting. With the paste HUD open, start typing and boxes that do not match dim out.
  • Boxes keep formatting, images and files, not only plain text. Pasting into a word processor keeps your formatting, and pasting the same item into a terminal gives plain text.
  • History, on Pro. Everything you copy is kept for as many days as you choose, seven by default, so you can go back for something you did not save deliberately.
  • Nothing your password manager copies is ever picked up. You can exclude other apps by name in Preferences.
  • Everything is stored encrypted on your Mac, with a key that never leaves it.
  • Emergency stop. Hold Escape for three seconds and Nine Boxes stops watching your keyboard.
  • Erase everything, in one command, in under a second.
  • Rebindable shortcuts, with conflict detection for the combinations macOS already uses.
  • 26 MB of memory and no measurable CPU while you are not using it.

Requires macOS 14 or later. One universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel.

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