Best Clipboard Managers for Mac

Copse is a fast, private clipboard manager for Mac. It remembers everything you copy, so you never lose a link, snippet or screenshot again. Press ⌘⇧V in any app, type a few letters, and paste it right back where you were.

Find anything you copied

• Keeps text, rich text, links, code, colors, images, screenshots, videos and files, along with the app and time they came from
• Instant search across your whole history, including the text inside screenshots
• Filters like type:link, app:slack, site:github.com and from:yesterday narrow results fast
• Quick Look any item at full size before pasting: images, links, code, PDFs and more

Paste faster

• Paste Stack: copy several items in a row, then paste them in order with ⌘V. Great for filling forms
• Select several items and paste them together
• Paste as plain text when you don't want the formatting
• Pin favorites, group items into collections, and save snippets you use often

Private by design

• Your history stays on your Mac. No account, no tracking
• Passwords copied from password managers are never saved
• Lock sensitive items with Touch ID, and redact secrets before sharing
• Exclude any app you don't want Copse to remember

Optional AI actions

• Fix grammar, translate or summarize an item, using Apple's on-device model, your own API key, or a local model

Built for the Mac

• Native Swift app that lives quietly in your menu bar
• Signed and notarized by Apple, with automatic updates
• Works on macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs

Pricing

• Free for 7 days, no card needed
• Then $2.99 once for a lifetime license on up to 3 of your Macs, updates included
• Full refund within 7 days if it's not for you

Website: https://copse.mayankbuilds.com

Klipto is a fast, native, privacy-first clipboard manager for Mac

Its Stack lets you copy several values once and paste them one by one into forms or spreadsheets. After each paste, Klipto can press Tab, Enter, an arrow key, or add custom text automatically

You can also build multi-step text transformations using regular actions, regex replacements, and on-device Apple Intelligence. Klipto can extract and translate text from screenshots on-device, and includes unlimited clipboard history, favourites, and notes

Everything stays local. There’s no account, cloud sync, analytics, telemetry, external AI API, or subscription

Maccy does one thing: it keeps a searchable history of what you have copied and brings it back with a keyboard shortcut. No sync service, no AI, no menu-bar clutter — just a fast list you filter by typing.

Why it makes the list

Clipboard managers are one of those tools you can't give up once you have one, and Maccy is the pick if you value a small footprint and open code. It is written in native Swift, uses almost no memory, and stores everything locally.

Standout features

• Instant fuzzy search over your clipboard history

• Pin frequently used snippets to the top of the list

• Configurable history size and ignore rules for password managers

• Paste as plain text to drop formatting

• Fully local storage — nothing is uploaded anywhere

• Native and tiny — Swift, not Electron

Pricing

Free and open source under the MIT licence. Pay $9.99 on the Mac App Store if you would rather support the developer and get automatic updates.

Pastebot keeps everything you copy in a searchable list with image previews, and recalls any of it with a keystroke. Beyond history, two features carry it: custom pasteboards for frequently used clippings, each with its own shortcut, and filters — small transform chains that strip formatting, change case, or run a regex find-and-replace as you paste, with a live preview of the result. The version 3 rewrite adds Shortcuts actions and a command-line interface for automating all of it.

Why it makes the list

This is Tapbots — the studio behind Tweetbot and Ivory — so the craft is a given: real AppKit, sensible keyboard control, iCloud sync that just works. The filter system is what sets it apart from the free clipboard managers; if you regularly paste something that needs cleaning up first, Pastebot does it in one step.

Standout features

• Clipboard history with search and image previews

• Custom pasteboards for reusable snippets, each shortcut-addressable

• Filters — chained text transforms with live preview

• Sequential paste for dropping several clippings in order

• Shortcuts and CLI automation (Pastebot 3)

• iCloud sync of history, pasteboards, and filters

Pricing

Buy directly from Tapbots for $39, or subscribe via the App Store at $2.99/month or $24.99/year.

Deck keeps a searchable history of everything you copy — text, images, files, and code — organized into Text, Images, Files, and Important tabs you can jump between instantly. A built-in AI chat can search that history for you ("find the git rebase command I copied earlier") or transform clipboard text on the spot, without you ever leaving the popup.

Why it makes the list

Clipboard managers are a crowded category, but most stop at "list of recent copies." Deck adds a genuinely useful AI layer on top — asking it questions about your clipboard history instead of scrolling through it — while keeping everything native, fast, and stored on your Mac rather than someone's cloud.

Standout features

• Typed history — Text, Images, Files, and Important, filterable instantly
• AI chat over your clipboard, powered by your choice of model
• JavaScript script plugins for custom text transformations
• Pin and organize important clips so they don't scroll away
• Fully native Swift app, built for speed
• Privacy-first — your clipboard history stays on your Mac

Pricing

Free download. The repository uses mixed licensing: the deckclip directory is AGPL-licensed; other files are source-available with all rights reserved.

Download availability

As checked on 20 October 2026, the developer flags a packaging issue that may affect new downloads and updates. Check the official repository notice before installing or updating.

Everything you've copied, always within reach. Just Copy keeps a searchable clipboard history on your Mac.

On the Mac, it lives in the notch. Reach for the top of the screen and everything you've copied drops down as cards, each drawn as what it is: text, links with their picture, images, screenshots, code, colors and files. Double-click a card and it's pasted where you were typing. Search reads the words inside screenshots, screenshots you take land in the tray, folders fill themselves by rule, and Paste Stack pastes several copies in order. An optional local MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and Codex search your history.

The iPhone companion is listed as coming soon on the developer’s website, checked on 20 October 2026. It is included with the Mac purchase when released; do not choose it for an available iPhone workflow yet.

No account, no subscription, no tracking. US$29.99 launch price for the Mac, including the iPhone app when it launches and all 1.x updates. Apple silicon, macOS 14 or later.

Paste keeps everything you copy in a searchable history and lets you organize it into pinboards you can share between your own devices.

Why it makes the list

It's the single most-recommended clipboard manager in every "best of" roundup — the category leader for anyone who wants their clipboard synced across every Apple device, not just their Mac.

Key features

• Clipboard history and pinboards synced across Mac, iPhone, and iPad via iCloud
• Multi-item pasting in a chosen order, with a choice of original formatting or plain text
• Shared pinboards for passing snippets to teammates or between your own devices
• Rules to exclude sensitive data (like passwords) from specific apps

Pricing

Subscription: $2.49/month billed monthly, or $29.99/year billed annually. A lifetime, one-time-purchase option is also offered. A 7-day free trial is available on both the App Store and the direct download, no credit card required for the direct download.