PastePlop
Your clipboard, but a grid. Hit ⌘⇧V, see everything you've ever copied, file the keepers into categories, paste with a click.
Or pick it up along with over twenty other apps — PastePlop is included in my bundles.
What it does
One hotkey, everything you've copied
A translucent grid zooms in over whatever you're doing. Text and images, newest first. Click a tile and it pastes back into the app you came from.
Categories that stick around
Right-click or drag a tile into a category. Snippets, prompts, signatures, lookup links — your re-usable pastes, just a number-key away.
MiniPlop — your floating scratch tray
Pop out a small always-on-top tray. Drop in tiles, files, text clippings, images, or links. Click to paste, drag back out into any app.
- Text, images, and files. Screenshots, copied PNGs, plain text, and files copied from Finder — all kept, all pasteable. File cards drag back out into any app that takes files.
- Multi-paste. Select several tiles with shift- or ⌘-click and paste them all in sequence — perfect for filling out forms or stitching snippets together.
- Drag or paste straight into Finder. Drop a tile onto a Finder window and you get a real file —
Image.pngorText.txt. Multi-select and the whole batch lands as numbered files in one drop. ⌘V into a Finder window does the same. - Localized into 11 languages. English, Українська, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), Русский, 简体中文.
- Number-key category switching. ⌘1 is History, ⌘2–⌘8 are your saved categories. Drag to reorder.
- Auto-restore the clipboard. After you paste, your previous clipboard contents come back.
- Featherweight and native. Pure SwiftUI + AppKit. Tiny binary, instant launch, no background services beyond the clipboard watcher.
- Find it in two strokes. ⌘F focuses the search. Type a few characters, hit return. Whether you copied it ten seconds ago or yesterday afternoon, it's right there.
- Search inside images. Screenshots get OCR'd locally via Vision so the search query matches what's visible in your image history.
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Get PastePlop
On the Mac App Store, or a notarized direct download with a free trial that auto-updates via Sparkle. Requires macOS 13 or later. Buying more than one app? PastePlop is included in my bundles, along with over twenty other apps.
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Questions, bug reports, or feature requests? Email ben.dansby@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply, usually within a day or two.
For how-to documentation, see the PastePlop documentation.
For privacy questions, see the privacy policy.