Unlimited history
The default limit is no limit. Every clipping stays until you delete it — or cap history at 100, 500, 1,000, or 5,000 items if you’d rather keep things small.
Clipboard manager for macOS
Copy once.
Paste anything.
Forever.
Pastiche keeps everything you have ever copied one shortcut away — text, links, images, files, and colors — in a shelf that slides up over whatever you are doing. Unlimited history, pinboards, power search, and not a single byte leaves your Mac.
Free & open source · macOS 13+ · Auto-updates built in
⇧⌘Vfrom anywhere — the shelf slides up
ClipboardSnippetsWork
Text
just now
git commit -m "fix: restore focus after paste"
52 characters1
Link
2 min ago
github.com
https://github.com/Prestongramberg/Pastiche
github.com2
Image
12 min ago
1728 × 11173
Color
1 hr ago
#7C5CFF
#7C5CFF4
File
3 hrs ago
appcast.xml
6 KB5
Features
Everything a clipboard should have been
One shelf, one shortcut, every clipping you have ever made. No account, no subscription, no sync — just the thing you copied, waiting where you left it.
Instant paste
Pastiche re-activates the app you came from and sends ⌘V for you. The clipping is in your document before the shelf finishes sliding away.
Returnto paste
Pinboards
Group the snippets you paste constantly onto named, colored boards. Copying an item to a board leaves your history exactly as it was.
Power search
Fuzzy matching across text, URLs, hex codes, file names, and the source app — narrowed by type: and app: filters that combine with plain terms.
type:imageapp:xcode
Every format
Plain text, rich text with its styling preserved, links, images, files, and colors — each one gets a card layout built for it.
Privacy first
Clippings marked concealed or transient — what password managers use — are ignored by default. Exclude any app entirely, or pause capture from the menu bar. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Quick paste
Paste the first through ninth card straight from the keyboard, without moving the selection or reaching for the mouse.
⌘1…⌘9
Space previews
Quick Look-style previews without leaving the shelf. Tap Space to blow up the selected card, tap it again to drop back.
Spaceto preview
Auto-updates
Sparkle checks a signed appcast served from the GitHub repo, verifies the EdDSA signature, and installs on relaunch. Turn it off whenever you like.
How It Works
Three keys, start to finish
The whole app is one shortcut away and one keystroke deep. You never leave the keyboard, and you never leave the app you’re working in.
- 01
Copy like always
Nothing to learn. Keep hitting ⌘C anywhere on your Mac — Pastiche sits in the menu bar and files every clipping away with the app it came from, whether it’s text, a link, an image, a file, or a color.
⌘C - 02
Summon the shelf
One global shortcut slides the shelf up from the bottom of whichever screen your mouse is on, right over whatever you were doing. Arrow through the cards, or just start typing to search.
⇧⌘V - 03
Paste anywhere
Return drops the selected card into the app you were just in — Pastiche re-activates it and presses ⌘V for you. Skip the arrows entirely with ⌘1 through ⌘9, or strip formatting with ⇧Return.
Return
Shortcuts
Built for people who never touch the mouse
The entire keyboard map. Nine keys is the whole app — learn three of them and you already have your clipboard back.
⇧⌘VToggle the shelf — works globally, from any app
←→Move the selection
ReturnPaste the selected item into the previous app
⇧ReturnPaste the selected item as plain text
SpaceToggle the large preview
⌘1⌘9Paste the 1st through 9th visible card
⌘FFocus the search field
DeleteDelete the selected item
EscClose the preview, then clear the search, then hide the shelf
Global by defaultThe shelf shortcut fires from any app, and you can re-bind it to whatever you like in Settings.
Type to searchWith the shelf open, just start typing — the search field takes focus on the first keystroke.
Esc backs outOne key unwinds the whole stack: preview first, then the search you typed, then the shelf itself.
Power Search
Find it the way you remember it
You rarely remember the words — you remember that it was an image, or that it came out of Xcode. Filters narrow the pile, fuzzy terms rank what is left, and the two work together.
Search the shelf
type:image
Every image you have copied, newest first. Swap in text, link, file, or color for the rest.
app:chrome
Everything grabbed from Chrome. The fragment matches the app name or its bundle id, so app:com.apple.Safari works too.
type:link deploy
Filters and free text combine: links mentioning “deploy” and nothing else.
wrld
Bare words fuzzy-match, so a typo still finds “world”. Matching runs across text, URLs, hex codes, file names, and the source app, ranked best-first.
Filter tokens
type:textText and rich text clippingstype:imageImagestype:linkLinkstype:fileFilestype:colorColorsapp:<fragment>Items copied from a matching app
Tokens stack with each other and with plain words. app:xcode type:text returns only the text you copied out of Xcode.
FAQ
Questions, answered
What people ask before they install it — permissions, privacy, and what the app is actually doing on your machine.
Yes. Pastiche is MIT-licensed and open source — no subscription, no trial, no accounts. Download the DMG, drag it to Applications, and it is yours. The source is on GitHub if you would rather build it yourself.
Still curious? Read the docs or open an issue on GitHub.
Your clipboard, remembered.
Install it once and stop losing things. Unlimited history, pinboards, and instant paste — free, open source, and entirely on your Mac.
Free & open source · macOS 13 or later · MIT licensed · Auto-updates built in