PasteSpace-Clipboard-Manager
PasteSpace — Clipboard Manager
Secure clipboard history for macOS. Native. Private. Yours.
Free to use · Pro is $19.99 once, forever · No subscriptions
The Problem
You copy a phone number, then a link, then a paragraph from a document. When you need that phone number again, it’s gone—replaced by the last item you copied.
You dig through your browser history, reopen documents, or scroll through messages to find it again, wasting valuable time.
PasteSpace remembers your clipboard history so you don’t have to.
How It Works
PasteSpace lives in your menu bar as a small clipboard icon (📋). Every time you press ⌘C, PasteSpace captures your copied content and adds it to a searchable history.
Here’s what using PasteSpace looks like:
- You’re writing an email and need a client’s address you copied an hour ago.
- Press ⌥⇧V (or your custom shortcut) — PasteSpace opens instantly.
- Type “Bucharest” in the search bar — the address appears immediately.
- Press Enter — it’s copied and ready to paste.
No switching apps. No reopening documents.
Screenshots
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📋 Clipboard history — your entire clipboard, one keystroke away
🔍 OCR — search inside images
Copy a screenshot — PasteSpace extracts the text automatically so you can search inside images.
🔐 Vault Mode — hardware-backed encryption with Touch ID
Vault Mode auto-encrypts sensitive data with AES-256-GCM. Reveal with Touch ID.
🪄 Data Magic — 30+ instant transformations
Data Magic — 30+ one-tap transformations for JSON, colors, dates, Base64, and more.
⚙️ Settings — general preferences
Fine-tune PasteSpace to your workflow — shortcuts, history limits, and privacy options.
⚙️ Settings — advanced controls
Advanced controls: App Blocklist, Ephemeral Mode, and Pro upgrade.
Features
📋 Clipboard History
Every piece of text, every image, and every file you copy is kept in a searchable, scrollable list.
Real-world example:
You’re filling out a form that asks for your name, email, phone, address, and IBAN — all stored in different places. Instead of switching between apps multiple times, you can copy all the information beforehand. It will all be in your PasteSpace history, ready to be pasted.
- Instant search — type a word to find it across your entire history.
- Pin items — keep your most-used snippets, templates, or credentials at the top.
- Source tracking — every item shows the application it was copied from (Safari, Xcode, Notes, etc.).
- Global shortcut (
⌥⇧V) — open PasteSpace from any app without touching the mouse.
🔐 Vault Mode — Hardware-Backed Encryption
Unlike apps that merely hide data from plain sight, PasteSpace encrypts it. It uses AES-256-GCM via Apple’s CryptoKit framework. Your encryption key is stored in the macOS Keychain, hardware-backed by the Secure Enclave on Apple Silicon.
Real-world example:
You copy your credit card number for an online checkout. PasteSpace detects the sensitive data and encrypts it on the spot. Your clipboard history will show a masked version like
5418 •••• •••• 9593. To reveal or use it, you need to authenticate with your fingerprint or device password.
Auto-detected and encrypted data:
- Credit/debit card numbers
- IBANs and bank account numbers
- API keys and tokens (GitHub, Slack, Stripe, JWT)
- SSH keys and fingerprints
- Software license keys
- Passwords from password managers
- OTP codes from authenticator apps
- High-entropy strings that resemble secrets
How Vault works in practice:
| You copy… | What happens | What you see in history |
|---|---|---|
4532 7891 2345 6789 |
Auto-detected as credit card → encrypted | 4532 •••• •••• 6789 🔒 |
ghp_abc123def456ghi789 |
Auto-detected as GitHub token → encrypted | ghp_a••••••••••i789 🔒 |
Hello world |
Normal text → stored normally | Hello world |
| Any text you choose | Manual vault (click 🔒) → encrypted | Hello••••orld 🔒 |
To reveal a Vault item: tap the 👁 button → authenticate with Touch ID → the content is revealed and automatically hides when you’re done.
Vault items survive Clear All and Ephemeral Mode — they remain until you explicitly remove them.
🔍 OCR — Text Extraction from Images
When you copy an image, a screenshot, or a photo, PasteSpace automatically extracts the text in the background using Apple’s Vision framework.
Real-world example:
You copy a screenshot of an error log. Later, you need to look up an error code from that screenshot. You type the code in the PasteSpace search bar, and the screenshot appears in your results because the text was already extracted.
- Automatic — copy an image and the text is extracted immediately.
- Searchable — find images by typing words that appear inside them.
- Copyable — open Quick Look on an OCR image to select and copy specific portions of the text.
- Local — all processing happens on your Mac’s CPU/GPU. No data is uploaded.
🪄 Data Magic — Instant Transformations
PasteSpace detects the format of the data you copied and offers one-tap transformations directly in your clipboard history, eliminating the need for external converter tools.
Real-world examples:
Developer: Copy a minified JSON response. Click 🪄 → “Pretty-print JSON” → the perfectly formatted JSON is ready to paste. Designer: Copy a color value
#FF5733. Click 🪄 → “HEX to RGB” →rgb(255, 87, 51)is copied. Writer: Copy uppercase text. Click 🪄 → “To Title Case” → text is properly capitalized. Data Analyst: Copy a table from a spreadsheet. Click 🪄 → “Table to Markdown” → the markdown table is ready for documentation.
Available transformations include:
| You copied | Available transformations |
|---|---|
| JSON | Pretty-print, Minify, → YAML, → XML |
| URL with parameters | Extract parameters, URL encode/decode |
Color (#FF5733) |
HEX ↔ RGB ↔ HSL ↔ SwiftUI Color |
Date (2026-04-11) |
→ Unix timestamp, → ISO 8601, → readable |
| Unix timestamp | → Human-readable date |
| Table (tab/CSV) | → Markdown table, → JSON, → CSV |
| HTML | → Markdown, → plain text |
| Markdown | → HTML |
| Base64 | Decode ↔ Encode |
| Any text | UPPER, lower, Title Case, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case, URL slug, word count, JSON/HTML escape |
| YAML | → JSON |
| XML | → JSON |
Over 30 transformations — all offline and instant.
👁 Quick Look
Preview the full content of any item — text, images, PDFs, files — in a floating panel without leaving your current application. For images with OCR, you can view the extracted text and select specific parts to copy.
🛡️ App Blocklist
Prevent PasteSpace from storing sensitive data from specific applications. If you add your banking app or a medical software to the blocklist, anything copied from it is completely ignored by PasteSpace.
⏳ Ephemeral Mode
When activated, your standard clipboard history is automatically wiped when your Mac restarts or shuts down. Vault items and pinned items are preserved, ensuring a clean slate while keeping your most important data secure.
Free vs. Pro
PasteSpace is free to use with generous limits. Pro removes the capacity limits for a single payment.
| Feature | Free | Pro ($19.99 — lifetime) |
|---|---|---|
| Clipboard history | 10 items (rolling) | Unlimited |
| Pinned items | 3 | Unlimited |
| Vault Mode | 2 items | Unlimited + auto-detection |
| OCR | Latest image | Every image |
| Data Magic | Latest text | Every text |
| Quick Look | Latest text + image | Everything |
| App Blocklist | 1 app | Unlimited |
| Ephemeral Mode | — | ✅ |
| Search, copy, pin, delete, shortcut | ✅ | ✅ |
| Future updates | ✅ | ✅ |
One purchase. No subscription. Yours for life.
Privacy
PasteSpace is designed with strict privacy principles and collects zero data:
| ✅ No analytics | We don’t track your usage behavior. |
| ✅ No crash reports | We don’t receive automated crash logs. |
| ✅ No cloud | Your data never leaves your Mac. |
| ✅ No account | We don’t require user accounts. |
| ✅ No third-party SDKs | No external tracking code is included. |
| ✅ No network calls | The only connection is to Apple’s StoreKit for purchases. |
Everything is stored locally in the macOS App Sandbox. Your encryption key lives securely in the Keychain. There are no remote servers or databases.
PasteSpace is fully compliant with privacy frameworks like GDPR and CCPA by design, as no personal data is collected or processed.
Security Architecture
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ PasteSpace App │
│ (macOS App Sandbox) │
│ │
│ ┌─────────────┐ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Clipboard │ │ Local SQLite Database │ │
│ │ Monitoring │──│ • Plain items (text/files) │ │
│ │(NSPasteboard│ │ • Encrypted vault items │ │
│ │ polling) │ │ (AES-256-GCM ciphertext) │ │
│ └─────────────┘ │ • OCR extracted text │ │
│ │ • Settings (UserDefaults) │ │
│ ┌─────────────┐ └────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │ Sensitivity │ │
│ │ Detector │ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │(regex-based │ │ macOS Keychain / Secure │ │
│ │ local-only) │ │ Enclave │ │
│ └─────────────┘ │ • AES-256 encryption key │ │
│ │ • Hardware-backed (M1/M2/ │ │
│ ┌─────────────┐ │ M3/M4/T2) │ │
│ │ OCR Engine │ │ • Never leaves device │ │
│ │(Apple Vision│ └────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │ framework) │ │
│ └─────────────┘ ┌────────────────────────────┐ │
│ │ Touch ID / Device Password │ │
│ ┌─────────────┐ │ (LocalAuthentication) │ │
│ │ StoreKit 2 │ │ • Vault reveal │ │
│ │ (Apple IAP) │ │ • On-device only │ │
│ └─────────────┘ └────────────────────────────┘ │
│ │
│ ✗ No servers ✗ No cloud ✗ No analytics │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
| Component | Technology |
|---|---|
| Encryption | AES-256-GCM via Apple CryptoKit |
| Key storage | macOS Keychain (Secure Enclave on Apple Silicon) |
| Authentication | Touch ID / device password via LocalAuthentication |
| OCR | Apple Vision framework (VNRecognizeTextRequest) |
| Database | SQLite via GRDB.swift |
| In-app purchase | StoreKit 2 (on-device JWS verification) |
| UI framework | SwiftUI (native macOS) |
| Export compliance | ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption = false (CryptoKit exempt) |
System Requirements
- macOS 14.0 (Sonoma) or later
- Any Mac (Intel or Apple Silicon)
- Touch ID recommended for Vault Mode (device password works on all Macs)
- Secure Enclave available on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4) and T2 Macs for hardware-backed key storage
Installation
From the Mac App Store (recommended):
- Search for “PasteSpace” on the Mac App Store.
- Download the app.
- PasteSpace will appear as a 📋 icon in your menu bar.
- Click the icon to open — your clipboard history starts building immediately.
First launch:
- A small indicator will point to the 📋 icon in your menu bar.
- Click it to open PasteSpace.
- Everything works out of the box with no configuration needed.
- Press ⌥⇧V from any app to open PasteSpace instantly.
Quick Start
Copy something → It’s in PasteSpace
You: ⌘C (copy anything — text, image, file) PasteSpace: ✓ Captured silently. Searchable. Ready to paste.
Find something you copied earlier
You: ⌥⇧V (open PasteSpace) You: Type “invoice” in search PasteSpace: Here’s the invoice number from 3 hours ago, and the screenshot of the invoice that contains the word “invoice”.
Pin something you use often
You: Hover over your email signature → click 📌 PasteSpace: Pinned. Always at the top. One click to copy.
Protect sensitive data
You: Copy a credit card number PasteSpace: Detected as sensitive → auto-encrypted → 4532 •••• •••• 6789 🔒 You: Need it later? Tap 👁 → Touch ID → revealed for a moment → auto-hidden
Transform data
You: Copy
{"name":"John","age":30}You: Click 🪄 → “Pretty-print JSON” PasteSpace: Copied to clipboard: { “name”: “John”, “age”: 30 }
Keyboard Shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌥⇧V | Open/close PasteSpace (customizable) |
| ↑ ↓ | Navigate clipboard history |
| ↵ Enter | Copy selected item |
| ⌘V | Paste (standard macOS) |
| Esc | Close PasteSpace |
Built for macOS
PasteSpace is a native macOS application built with SwiftUI. It respects your system appearance, integrates natively with Touch ID, and sits efficiently in your menu bar using minimal resources.
Legal
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- © 2026 Marius Constantin Popescu. All rights reserved.
Contact
Questions, feedback, or feature requests?
📧 mariuscpopescu@icloud.com — I read every email.