The clipboard history for Mac
Your Mac remembers one copy at a time. Paste My remembers all of them — text, links, images and files, kept privately on your Mac and ready the instant you need one back.
Free on the Mac App Store · Requires macOS 13.0 or later · No account, nothing collected
A memory for the busiest tool on your Mac.
The clipboard is the thing you use most and the only one with no history. Here is what changes when it has one.
Everything, kept automatically
Every copy is saved the moment you make it — no hotkey, no save step, nothing to switch on first.
Text, links, images, files
Styled text stays styled. Images keep their size. Copied files come back as files, and their paths come back as text.
It knows where things came from
Each clipping remembers the app you copied it in, and says so when it arrived from your iPhone or iPad.
Find any of it in a second
Live search across everything you have ever copied, with tokens for narrowing to just links, images or files.
Tools for the clipboard itself
Re-copy as plain text, encode as Base64, or copy a link with its tracking parameters stripped — from any app.
Always in the menu bar
Open the picker, type a word, press ⌘1 to ⌘9. Your history without ever reaching for the mouse.
Everything you copy, kept.
Copy something and it is already saved. Text, links, images, files, even the plain text of a file's path — each one arrives at the top of your history the moment you make it, newest first.
Copy the same thing twice and it does not clutter the list: the entry you already have moves up and counts how often you have reached for it.
- Nothing to remember — no hotkey at the moment of copying, and no save step
- Nothing wasted — putting an item back never creates a duplicate
- Nothing lost — pin what you reach for constantly and cleanup never touches it
It knows what came from where.
Every entry carries the app you copied it in, with its icon, so a snippet from Safari never gets confused with one from your notes.
And when something arrives from an iPhone, an iPad or another Mac over Universal Clipboard, the entry says so. When the signals disagree it says unverified rather than guessing — and it never asks for the permission that would let it watch your other apps.
See which app you copied fromFind it in a second.
Press ⌘F and start typing. The list narrows as you go and your terms are highlighted in the previews, so you can see exactly what matched.
Type type:link or pinned:yes to narrow further, mix tokens with ordinary words, or use the filters panel to filter by kind, by date, or by the app a clipping came from.
Detailed or simplified. Your call.
Detailed is three columns — your sources, your history, and a full inspector for whatever you have selected. It is the one for working through a lot of clippings at once.
Simplified is a single column of cards. Click one to put it back on your clipboard; click again for its details. All the substance, none of the furniture.
Switch whenever you like. It is the same history, presented two ways, and neither one hides what the other shows.
A clipboard you can hand your worst secrets.
A history is only useful if you can put anything through it without thinking twice. So there is nowhere for it to go, and the things that should never be kept are not kept.
- Nothing leaves your MacNo account, no analytics, no servers. The only time the app uses the network is to talk to the App Store when you buy or restore.
- Secrets are hidden on sightPasswords, API keys, private keys, one-time codes and real card numbers are recognised on your Mac and masked until you choose to reveal them.
- Some things are never savedPassword managers mark what they put on the clipboard as private. That content is not stored at all — no setting required.
- You decide which apps countPut an app on the ignore list and its copies are skipped entirely — not the content, not even the app's name.
Fair questions.
Does macOS keep a clipboard history on its own?
The Mac clipboard holds one item at a time, and each new copy replaces the last. A history is what Paste My adds — every clipping kept as you make it, in order, with the app it came from recorded alongside it.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no account, no sign-in and nothing to set up. Open the app and it starts keeping your history.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes, entirely. The only thing Paste My ever talks to over the network is the App Store, and only when you buy or restore something.
Can I see something I copied on my iPhone?
If it reached your Mac over Universal Clipboard, yes. The entry is marked as having arrived from another Apple device, and it waits for the transfer to finish so what you get back is the whole thing.
What happens to my history if I remove the app?
It goes with it. Your history lives with Paste My rather than loose on your disk, so removing the app removes the history and leaves nothing behind.
Which Macs does it run on?
Any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon or Intel.
Nothing you copy is one ⌘C away from gone.
Free on the Mac App Store. Open it once and it starts keeping your history — no account, no setup, nothing collected.