PastePal

Features

• ✅ Native: Written in native AppKit and Swift to embrace the Mac experience. No Catalyst.
• ✅ Universal: Universal purchase. Support Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps. Sync with iCloud across all your devices.
• ✅ No subscription: No recurring subscription. Buy once, use forever. Even for future updates.
• ✅ No tracking: No analysis and data collecting. Your data remains locally and safe on your devices.
• ✅ Under your control: Organize pasteboard history the way you want. Specify what and how the history is saved with various settings in the app.
• ✅ Fast: Unlimited history with blazing fast index and search.
• ✅ Localization: Localized into over 20+ languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Kurdish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, ...

Flexible bar

Access your most recent history easily with a flexible and unobtrusive bar. Position it wherever you want, either top, left, bottom, or right edge of the screen.

• Position: Place it on the top, left, bottom, or right edge of the screen. You can set up keyboard shortcuts to show and change position.
• Smart detection: Smart detection of copied and pasted items together with their source application.
• Context menu: Right-click on any history item to access a powerful context menu. Copy, delete, add to collection, share, and more.
• Preview: View raw and quick look content with a convenient popover.
• Drag and Drop: Drag one or multiple files, even your newly captured screenshot.
• Descriptive: At a glance, know the content type, application, collection, date, and the number of characters of each history item.
• Unobtrusive: Show with a keyboard shortcut or from the menu bar. Dismiss with the Esc key or the down arrow button.
• Unpin: During unpin, touch anywhere outside the side window to dismiss it.
• Quick Mode: Use the same Toggle Side Window shortcut. Press to open the side window, hold and keep pressing to navigate among clip items, release to copy or paste.
• Queue: Temporary stack to collect, organize, and paste all at once.
• Peer Share: Even without Handoff or iCloud Sync, you can share content between PastePal apps on the local network.
• Auto Plain Text: Clear rich text formatting.

Omniscient main view

Filter and search all your history by app, content type, collections.

• Adaptive grid: Automatic resizing grid with adaptive layout.
• Quick grouping: Select items by source applications, recognized content type, or make your own collections.
• Search and pagination: History is paginated for better performance. Use the search field at the bottom toolbar to find more.
• Dark mode: Gorgeous light and dark mode themes.
• Fine-tune history: Quick toggle to pause and resume pasteboard observation. Control how long your data is preserved.
• Allow and Ignore list: Specify which app, content, or folder is allowed or ignored.
• Privacy: Control whether to save passwords and sensitive data.
• Keyboard shortcuts: Set up your own keyboard shortcuts to maximize productivity. Toggle flexible bar, copy, delete, esc, and more.

Smart content type

Recognize common content types and group them for easy access.

• Text: Show how many characters and lines for recognized text strings. Preview as Raw.
• Rich Text: Rich formatted texts including code snippets. Preview as Rich Text.
• Hex Color: Detect hex color format like #AABBCC and preview them inline.
• Emoji: Emoji is special. Show it in full scale.
• Link: Show primary thumbnail and page title of a link. Preview as inline browser.
• Image: Image copied from the browser or drawing applications. Preview as the original size.
• GIF: Preview animated gif.
• PDF: Specify treatment for PDF file. Preview as interactable PDF.
• File: Show file path and size of copied file. Preview Quick Look representation.
• Multiple Files: Save multiple files as Quick Look and with locations. Preview multiple paths.

Convenient iPhone app

Still powerful but crafted exclusively for the mobile experience.

• Privacy: Honor iOS 14 pasteboard privacy policy. No automatic pasteboard observation, but you can manually insert an item into history.
• Smart content type: Recognize common content types like text, link, emoji, and hex colors. More will be supported.
• iCloud Sync: By default, sync is disabled so you can use it like separate apps. But iCloud Sync can be enabled in Settings.
• Share sheet extension: Share any text content easily to PastePal.
• Action extension: Quick action in Share sheet to add to PastePal.
• Quick Action: Long press on PastePal icon on the Home screen to access Quick Actions.
• Siri Shortcut: Siri suggestions to Add to PastePal.
• Widget: iOS 14 Widgets to quickly copy.
• Fabulous icons: Choose from well-crafted alternate app icons.
• App Shortcuts: Support iOS 16 app shortcuts.
• Dark mode: Gorgeous light and dark mode themes.

Look great on iPad

The same Mac experience you used to love, with a gorgeous sidebar and grid view.

• Any screen orientation: Adaptive layout for both landscape and portrait mode.
• Context menu: Force touch on any history item to access a powerful context menu. Copy, delete, add to collection, share, and more.

Credit

PastePal is here today thanks to all your constant support and feedback ❤️

Special thanks

App icon design

• Yannick Lung

Translations

• Pierre-Henri Guillot 🇫🇷
• qiyuanshouji 🇨🇳
• Albert Abdilim 🇨🇳
• Kevinn 🇭🇰
• Stephen 🇹🇼
• Mateusz Zając 🇵🇱
• Pavel Tuzov 🇷🇺
• Anton Gubarenko 🇷🇺
• Yannick Lung 🇩🇪
• Thomas Wölk 🇩🇪
• Makwan Barzan 🇮🇶
• Joan González 🇪🇸
• Erick Vavretchek 🇧🇷
• James 🇰🇷
• Dylan 🇮🇹
• Tibor Bödecs 🇭🇺
• Donny Wals 🇳🇱
• Marco Janssen 🇳🇱
• Konstantin 🇧🇬
• Tallak Lippe 🇳🇴
• Nurkamol Vakhidov 🇺🇿
• Saffet Emin Reisoğlu 🇹🇷
• Cristi Lupu 🇷🇴
• Nurkamol Vakhidov 🇺🇿
• Roman Mirzoyan 🇺🇦
• Marek Kanaš 🇸🇰
• Minh Hoang Nguyen 🇯🇵

Support

• Have a problem? Please open a GitHub issue.
• Visit the homepage https://onmyway133.com/pastepal/ for more information.
• Check out https://twitter.com/PastePalApp for feature update demos.

PastePal is developed by a single indie developer, and your support helps keep the project going. Thanks for checking it out, and have a nice day! 😇