aPaste

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Your clipboard history, one shortcut away.

aPaste is a fast, keyboard-first clipboard manager for macOS. Open a focused panel, search your saved clipboard history, keep important snippets on Pinboards, and paste back into your workflow without breaking focus.

Download Latest Release · Install with Homebrew

Instant recall · Pinboards for snippets · Private by default · Menu bar only · Built for macOS

brew tap alliottech/tap
brew install --cask alliottech/tap/apaste
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/aPaste.app

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One shortcut opens your saved clipboard history with rich previews, fast search, and Pinboards that stay available whenever you need them.

Why aPaste

• Find saved items instantly — Browse your clipboard history in a focused panel built for fast scanning, search filters, and quick paste-back
• Keep what matters — Save recurring snippets, links, and assets to pinboards instead of losing them in a long history
• Stay in flow — Navigate, search, and paste without touching the mouse
• Present safely — Ignore sensitive apps and hide preview contents when you need privacy
• Sync on your terms — Optionally sync via a folder you control, with end-to-end encryption support
• Feel native on macOS — Menu bar app, no Dock icon, no clutter, no friction

Features

• Automatic clipboard history — Capture supported clipboard content while respecting ignored apps and confidential or transient content markers
• Pinboards — Save snippets to color-coded boards, always one shortcut away, never auto-deleted
• Rich previews — Styled text, links, colors, images, and files render as scannable cards
• Instant search — Search as you type, then narrow by type, date, or source app
• Privacy controls — Ignore specific apps, skip transient/confidential pasteboard content, hide contents from screenshots
• Smart Capture Rules — Ignore or automatically pin new captures by content type, source app, text, URL host, file extension, or captured byte range
• Quick Actions — Transform text, format JSON, clean links, create Markdown links, or copy recognized image text
• Folder sync — Sync history and pinboards through Syncthing, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, or any shared folder
• Stays out of the way — No Dock icon. No splash screen. Optional launch at login

Screenshots

Panel

Liquid Glass

Standard

Keyboard Shortcuts

Most command shortcuts are customizable in Settings → Shortcuts; fixed panel navigation shortcuts are listed for reference.

Action	Default
Toggle panel	⌃ + Backtick
Activate aPaste Stack	⌘ ⇧ C
Next Pinboard	⌘ →
Previous Pinboard	⌘ ←
Create Pinboard	⌘ ⇧ N
Toggle search	⌘ F
Jump to source context	⌘ G
Copy and close	⌘ C
Select all cards	⌘ A
Undo delete	⌘ Z
Open Settings	⌘ ,
Paste selected item	↩
Search history	Type anything
Navigate items	← ↑ ↓ →
Close panel	Esc

Install

Homebrew

brew tap alliottech/tap
brew install --cask alliottech/tap/apaste
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/aPaste.app

Manual

Download the latest architecture-matched DMG, drag aPaste.app to /Applications, then remove the quarantine flag:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/aPaste.app

Requirements

macOS 15 or later.