OpenPaste
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Your clipboard,
remembered

OpenPaste is a free, open-source clipboard manager. Everything you copy waits on a visual shelf, one shortcut away.

Download for macOS Try it in your browser
The OpenPaste shelf open below a notes window, with text, link, code, color and image cards
Copied #5B4CF5from Figma · just now
Pinned to Snippetskept until you remove it
⇧ ⌘ V Try it in your browserThe real shelf with sample data. Copy something on the page, open the shelf, paste it back. Built in the openMIT licensed. Read every line, file an issue, or send a pull request.

A home for everything
you copy

Text, links, code, colors, images and files, each shown the way it looks, with the app it came from. Narrow it down with is:image is:code or app:slack.

Search
History Snippets Brand Replies
Text
2 min ago
Can we move the design review to Thursday at 14:00? I'll bring the new onboarding flow.
92 characters
Link
6 min ago
developer.mozilla.org
/en-US/docs/Web/API/Clipboard_API
Web link
Code
14 min ago
export function debounce(fn, ms) { let timer return (...args) => { clearTimeout(timer) timer = setTimeout( () => fn(...args), ms) } }
7 lines
Color
22 min ago
#5B4CF5
rgb(91 76 245)
Color
Image
35 min ago
1280 × 800, 402 KB

Remembers everything

Text, rich text, links, code, colors, images and files, with the app each came from and when. Copy it again and it moves to the front.

Shows it the way it looks

A copied color fills its card, images go edge to edge, links lead with the site name and code keeps its shape.

1Copya link in Slack
2Press ⇧⌘Vthe shelf slides up
3Type “docs”results narrow as you type
4Press Returnpasted where you were

Finding made effortless

Start typing the moment the shelf opens. Search covers everything you've copied, and filters narrow it to one kind.

Filters

Mix a filter with words: is:link docs finds links that mention docs.

  • Everything
  • is:link
  • is:image
  • is:code
  • is:color
  • is:file
  • app:slack
is:link docs
Link
Slack · 2 min ago
docs.github.com
/en/pages/quickstart
Link
Chrome · 1 hr ago
vitest.dev
/guide/mocking
Link
Notes · yesterday
electronjs.org
/docs/latest/api/clipboard
Return paste ⇧ Return paste as plain text Space preview Esc clear, then close

Pastes where you were

Pick a card and OpenPaste puts it straight back into the app you were using. Hold Shift to leave the formatting behind.

Simple for anyone. Fast for keyboards.

Click and drag if you like, or never touch the mouse: arrows to move, ⌘1–9 to paste one of the first nine, Tab to switch boards.

“The shelf floats over other apps, so it stays quiet: one accent for selection and focus, every other color comes from content.”

From OpenPaste's design notes

Private by default

Your history never leaves your computer. No account, no cloud, nothing to sign in to.

What it skips

Some things should never be in a clipboard history. OpenPaste leaves them out.

  • Password manager copies
  • Apps on your ignore list
  • Anything while paused
  • Old, unpinned items

Privacy

History is stored only on this computer, in a plain folder.

Skip copies marked private by password managers
Ignore these apps1PasswordBitwardenKeePassXC+ Add
Remove unpinned items after30 days
Keep at most2,000 items
History folderOpen folder

“No native modules. Pasting uses each system's own tools, so there is nothing to compile and the app builds on any machine.”

From the OpenPaste README

Everything you need
in one shortcut

Runs everywhere

macOS 13 and later, Windows 10 and later, and 64-bit Linux. The same shelf and the same shortcuts on each.

macOS · Apple Silicon and Intel Windows · x64 and Arm Linux · AppImage and .deb

Pinboards

Named, colored boards for snippets, replies and brand colors. Never cleaned up.

Quick paste

⌘1 to ⌘9 pastes one of the first nine cards.

Preview

Space shows the whole card before you paste it.

Undo delete

Removed something by mistake? Bring it back.

Edit and rename

Fix the text before pasting, and name cards you'll want again.

Drag and drop

Drag a card onto a pinboard, or out into another app.

Light and dark

Follows your system, or pick one in Settings.

Opens at login

Ready before you copy your first thing of the day.

Search that understands kinds

Type words, or ask for a kind of thing from a particular app.

is:imageis:linkis:codeis:coloris:fileapp:figma

Your own shortcut

Keep ⇧⌘V or record any shortcut you like.

Images and files

Screenshots, photos and files, stored once even if copied twice.

Built in the open

OpenPaste is MIT licensed. Sync between computers, link previews and paste stacks are on the roadmap, and contributions are welcome.

Contribute on GitHub

Get started for free

Version 1.0.0 for macOS, Windows and Linux. No account needed.

Download for macOS Try the live demo
macOS, Apple Silicon .dmg macOS, Intel .dmg Windows .exe Linux .AppImage Debian, Ubuntu .deb

The installers aren't signed with a paid certificate yet. On first launch, choose Open Anyway in Privacy & Security (macOS) or More info → Run anyway (Windows).