PasteNow — Mac download

You are pulling together a client proposal. A stat from a PDF, a revised paragraph, two screenshots, and the legal disclaimer all land on the clipboard within sixty seconds. Reaching each one without a history means stopping to re-copy, every time.

Collect without breaking stride

PasteNow quietly stores everything you copy — text, images, files — so you can paste any item later, not just the last one.

Pin what you reuse

Keep a short list of permanent snippets pinned at the top so your phone number, address, or standard reply never gets pushed out of the history.

Find a clip from last Tuesday

Letting your three-hour-old clip vanish because no rules were set

Most people install PasteNow, copy a few things, then forget it is running. That is fine — until they need a clip from three hours ago and realize they have not set any rules.

The first mistake: letting every single copy fill the history. Password managers, two-factor codes, and snippets from your password manager show up in plain view. Set PasteNow to ignore specific apps. Go to the exclusions list under Rules and add 1Password, Keychain Access, or your banking app immediately.

The second mistake: never using the search bar. People scroll through dozens of entries looking for a link they copied yesterday. Type three characters from the URL or the page title. PasteNow filters the list before you finish typing.

Third, ignoring the shortcut for pasting near the cursor. That shortcut saves you the trip to the menu bar. Memorize it early, or customize it to something your fingers already know.

Bumping the history limit past 200 so images don’t push out code

Out of the box, PasteNow stores up to 200 items and keeps them until you restart. That limit disappears fast if you copy images or long code blocks. Increase the history size to 500 or 1000 entries under General. The app handles it without slowing down.

Next, change the list view style to something denser. The default card view looks pleasant but shows fewer clips per scroll. Switch to compact list mode if your workflow involves scanning quickly.

Turn on Strip text formatting if you paste into plain-text editors, emails, or terminals. Without it, styled text from a web page arrives with fonts and colours you do not want. One toggle, and every paste lands as clean text.

Finally, enable iCloud sync if you use an iPhone or iPad alongside your Mac. A link copied on the phone appears on the desktop history within seconds. That single setting makes PasteNow behave like a shared clipboard without extra steps.

Smart lists let you filter by content type or search by keyword, making an old copy as accessible as something you grabbed ten seconds ago.

• macOS 12 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel 64-bit