paste-buff for Mac
Everything you copied.
One keystroke away.
Press ⌘⇧V and pick anything from the last 24 hours. It pastes straight into the app you were using.
Small app.
Long memory.
Text, files and images.
Copy a paragraph, a Finder selection or a screenshot. Files paste back as real files, and images keep their pixels.
Pastes where you were.
paste-buff remembers the app you came from, hands focus back, and presses ⌘V for you.
Forgets on schedule.
Clips older than 24 hours are pruned every minute. Nothing piles up.
Passwords stay out.
Clips marked concealed or transient by password managers are never recorded.
Nothing leaves your Mac.
History is a JSON file in Application Support. No account, no sync, no network code at all.
Performance
Featherweight.
paste-buff is plain AppKit: one process, no web view, no GPU renderer kept alive while hidden. When the panel closes it is ordered out and macOS takes its memory back.
| App | Idle | Panel open | After 20 opens |
|---|---|---|---|
| paste-buff | 16.4 | 20.3 | 20.1 |
| Same app on GPUI | 30.1 | 51 | 45 |
| Maccy | 53.6 | 90.8 | 63.9 |
| Same app on Tauri | 66.3 | 111.6 | 73.5 |
| Raycast | 116.4 | 131.1 | 126.8 |
Never leave the keyboard.
- ⌘⇧VOpen paste-buff from any app
- TypeFilter entries as you type
- ↑↓Move through history
- ⏎Paste into the previous app
- ⌘⌫Remove an entry
- escHide the panel
Get paste-buff.
Open the DMG, drag paste-buff into Applications, open it once, then press ⌘⇧V.
- Signed and notarized. The app and the DMG carry a Developer ID signature checked by Apple, so they open without warnings.
- Starts at login. paste-buff adds itself to Login Items on first launch. Switch it off in System Settings and it stays off.
- One permission. macOS asks for Accessibility access so paste-buff can press ⌘V for you.