Paste 6.6.2 — Mac version

Paste is a Mac clipboard manager that remembers everything you copy so you can find it later.

Full history across text, links, images and screenshots

Does it only remember the last thing I copied? — No. It keeps a full history: text, links, images and screenshots. Scroll back through days of copies.

Can I paste without the formatting from the original source? — Yes. It can show and paste plain text, stripped of fonts and colours.

Will my clipboard history sync to my phone? — Yes. iCloud syncs your history and pinboards across Mac, iPhone and iPad. AirDrop and Universal Clipboard also work for quick transfers.

Can I copy several things at once? — Yes. Select multiple items in the history and paste them as a batch.

Which Macs run it? — Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel Macs on macOS 13 or later. You can set your own keyboard shortcuts to open it fast.

Stop pasting before the history window appears

Most trouble with Paste comes from two habits. The first is double‑tapping ⌘V out of muscle memory before the Paste window appears. You end up pasting the thing you just copied instead of the history item you wanted. Give the shortcut half a beat — the overlay pops up, you pick, then you paste.

The second: people treat the main history as long‑term storage. It is not a filing cabinet. The history queue is for flow. If you need something next week, pin it. Tap the pin icon on any item and it stays safe in a separate pinboard, safe from the rolling history.

A quieter mistake is not setting a plain‑text paste shortcut early on. Without it, you paste rich text into a plain email and wonder why the font looks off. Go into preferences, assign a shortcut for “Paste as Plain Text”, and use it for anything that does not need styling.

Search habits that slow you down

Scrolling through dozens of snippets is slower than typing two words. The smart search inside Paste is quick enough to use as a reflex. Start typing a word you remember from the copied text — even a fragment — and the list shrinks instantly. Most newcomers scroll first and search second. Flip that round.

How Paste fits together with other apps and macOS

Paste does not live in a bubble. It sits next to several Mac features and makes them more useful.

Universal Clipboard and AirDrop

Apple’s Universal Clipboard lets you copy on one device and paste on another nearby. Paste holds on to that copied item so you can retrieve it later — not just on the device that received it, but across your iCloud‑synced history. That means a screenshot you copied from your iPhone yesterday is still findable on your Mac today.

AirDrop works differently but the idea is similar. Paste lets you share individual items from your history directly to another Apple device via AirDrop. Useful when the other person does not share your iCloud clipboard but needs the same link or snippet.

Working alongside text editors and design tools

In apps like Pages, Notes or Ulysses, Paste saves you from round‑trips to source documents. Copy several paragraphs from different places, then batch‑paste them where you need them. In design tools like Sketch or Figma, copied layers and screenshots stay visible in the history tray, so you can pull an earlier version of a graphic without hunting through files.

File handling outside the clipboard

Paste remembers files you copy in Finder. That means a .pdf or .zip you copied an hour ago is still there even after you copied a dozen text snippets in between. Tapping it in the history copies it again, ready to paste into a new folder or attach to an email.

iCloud sync now feels nearly instant between devices

Recent builds — 6.6.x and its neighbours — did not rewrite the interface, but they sharpened the things you touch most.

• iCloud sync speed. The round‑trip between Mac, iPhone and iPad is noticeably tighter. A link you copy on the phone appears in the Mac history within a few seconds, not half a minute.
• Plain‑text handling. Stripping rich text got cleaner. Less leftover markup when you paste from a web page into a code editor or a plain email.
• Search responsiveness. Searching a large history on an Intel Mac used to lag. Now the results keep pace with typing, even when the history stretches back weeks.
• Batch paste precision. Pasting multiple items respects the order you selected them more reliably. Earlier versions occasionally reversed the sequence.

None of these changes make headlines, but they add up. A clipboard manager is a tool you use fifty times a day — a half‑second shaved off each retrieval feels like a smoother morning.

• macOS 13 or later
• Apple Silicon or 64-bit Intel processor