The Raycast alternative for clipboard work.
Raycast bundles a clipboard history among hundreds of launcher features, with AI on a paid plan. CopyPasta is a dedicated paste tool: the paste shortcut stays the paste shortcut, and what lands fits the app you're working in.
Where CopyPasta differs
Nothing replaces your launcher or asks you to learn a palette—press the paste shortcut and CopyPasta decides how the clipboard should arrive, from plain text to an AI rewrite. Standard formatting runs on your machine.
Where Raycast may fit better
Raycast may fit better if you already live in its launcher and want clipboard history as one more feature. CopyPasta is for people who want the paste fixed without replacing anything else.
| Feature | CopyPasta | Raycast |
|---|---|---|
| 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.