PastePlop
Your clipboard, organized.
Hit ⌘⇧V and see everything you've ever copied in a grid. File the keepers into categories, and paste with a click.
Or pick it up in a bundle with over twenty other apps. Also available on Setapp.
What it does
A resizable grid, not a list
⌘⇧V zooms a translucent grid over whatever you're in, everything you've copied, newest first. A slider scales the tiles from compact to comfortable. Click one and it pastes where you came from.
Saved categories
Drag a tile into a bucket for snippets, prompts, signatures or brand colors and it is still there next week. ⌘1 is History, ⌘2 through ⌘9 are your categories, and the buckets drag to reorder.
Clips that stay on top
MiniPlop is an always-on-top tray of the clips you reach for constantly, or sits inline in the overlay, or drops from the menu bar. Right-click any tile and Float gives it its own borderless window; two-finger scroll fades it to 25%, so a reference shot can sit over your work.
Multi-paste, in any order
Select several tiles and ⌘↩ pastes them in sequence, or bottom to top with Reverse. Drag tiles to set the order first, and join them with commas, tabs or paragraph breaks — Separated by Tab fills one form field or spreadsheet cell after the next.
Text found inside screenshots
Screenshots are read locally with Vision, so searching a phrase you remember seeing finds the shot it was in. Right-click one and Paste as Text drops the words instead of the picture.
Summon it your way
Left-click the menu bar icon for the picker, or for MiniPlop as a menu, and right-click for the standard menu. Rather use the Dock? Keep PastePlop there and click it to bring up the grid. Or hide the menu bar icon and live on the hotkey alone.
A free iPhone and iPad companion
Sync mirrors your recent clips and saved categories through your own private iCloud database to a free companion app. Tap a tile to copy it there. Off by default, four switches pick what travels.
Screenshots
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. Also available on Setapp.
The companion for iPhone and iPad is a separate free download — it shows what the Mac app syncs, so it needs PastePlop for Mac to be useful.
Support
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.