The Paste alternative for formatted pastes.
Paste gives you a visual clipboard history that syncs across Mac, iPhone, and iPad on a subscription. CopyPasta answers a different problem: the clipboard arrives already shaped for the app you're pasting into.
Where CopyPasta differs
CopyPasta keeps history only in memory on your machine—nothing to disk, nothing to a cloud account. Press the paste shortcut and the clipboard arrives formatted or rewritten for the destination app, with AI rewrites on request.
Where Paste may fit better
Paste may fit better if you want searchable, synced boards of past copies across your Apple devices. CopyPasta keeps no durable history at all—its job is the next paste, not the archive.
| Feature | CopyPasta | Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Clipboard history | † | |
| Structured field mapping | ||
| Text formatted for the receiving app | ||
| Natural-language text transformations | ‡ | |
| Text from images (OCR) | ||
| Spoken instructions while pasting | ||
| iPhone and iPad apps | ||
| macOS app | § | |
| Linux app | ||
| Windows app |
✓ marks a feature listed in the linked official source. The “—” mark means the source doesn't list it. 🚧 marks a CopyPasta feature in development. Sources checked: .
†CopyPasta keeps history only in memory on your machine. It's not persisted to disk or synced across devices.
‡Standard formatting runs on your machine. AI rewrites send copied text, your instruction, and relevant context to CopyPasta and AI providers. Privacy and trust
§CopyPasta ships cross-platform natively, not through Electron. Native packaging keeps the installer small at , idle CPU at 0.1%, and physical memory at 24 MiB. The latter two metrics are medians from five 60-second idle Activity Monitor samples on a MacBook Neo with Apple A18 Pro running macOS 27.0.