PastePlop — your clipboard, organized

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Your clipboard, but a grid. Hit ⌘⇧V, see everything you've ever copied, file the keepers into categories, paste with a click.

macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon · Free

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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.

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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.

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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.
  • 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

Free direct download. Requires macOS 13 or later. Auto-updates via Sparkle.

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