Manage your clipboard with more control than ever before
Clipboard management
IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes
YOU WILL LEARN
How to use Paste to get a much better clipboard experience
YOU’LL NEED Paste (Free, IAPs), macOS 12 or later
Your Mac’s clipboard has always felt like it could be way better, yet here we are with the same feature-limited tool, year after year. You can only copy one item at a time, and if you copy something new, the old item gets overwritten for good. For such an advanced operating system like macOS, it feels like a feature that’s stuck in the past.
Luckily, you can fix it with a brilliant little app called Paste. It has an unlimited clipboard history so you never lose anything you copied, and it enables you to easily control how and where everything is pasted. All your copied items are housed in a handy overlay that lets you search for items, group them in folders, and more.
Simply put, Paste will change the way you manage your clipboard. It’s such a clever app that, before long, it’ll feel like a natural extension of macOS. Here, we’ll show you how to use it, from basic first steps to mastering its advanced features.
HOW TO Get to grips with the basics
Paste works as you’d expect: press Cmd+C to copy an item, then Cmd+V to paste. Since Paste has an unlimited clipboard history, you can press Cmd+C as many times as you like and you still won’t lose or overwrite anything.
You can also press Cmd+Shift+V and double-click the item you want to paste, then open an app and it will paste automatically. Or press Cmd+Shift+V, then drag and drop an item onto your chosen app to paste it.
To paste more than one item at once, press Cmd+Shift+V, then hold Cmd and click multiple items, then paste them using one of the options above. You can also hold Shift to select items in a continuous line, like in Finder.
HOW TO Use Paste’s clipboard history
Copy an item, then press Cmd+Shift+V to open the Paste menu. Your copied items will be shown in a row at the bottom of your screen. The app the item was copied from is displayed at the top of each entry in the row.
Ctrl-click an item in Paste’s clipboard history to open it, rename it, delete it, and more. You can navigate your history with your keyboard’s arrow keys, swipe on your trackpad, or click the end item with your
