PastePal - Clipboard Manager
PastePal is the best universal clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
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
Translations
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Support
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! 😇