Free & open-source · macOS

A Free Way
to Copy and
Paste

Name: Freepaste
Author: bluehatkeem

A fast, private clipboard manager that lives in your menu bar — and remembers everything you copy.

Unlimited History

Fast & Secure

Always Free

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macOS 14+ Apple Silicon & Intel MIT licensed

Freepaste clipboard bar open on a MacBook

Everything you copy, organized

A clipboard with a memory

Freepaste captures everything you copy and lays it out as a scrollable row of cards — colour-coded by the app it came from.

Universal clipboard history

Plain text, rich text, HTML, links, images, PDFs, colors and files — all captured and kept in a searchable history. Each card shows exactly where the clip came from.

Text Link Image Color File

Open from anywhere

One global shortcut slides the bar up from the bottom of the screen, over whatever you're working in.

Search as you type

Filter by content, source app or file path. Hit Return to paste the top match instantly.

Pin what matters

Pin go-to clips to the front. Pinned items never expire and survive “Clear History.”

Paste as plain text

Hold Option while picking a clip to strip all formatting and paste it as clean plain text.

Smart actions, right on the card

Open a link in your browser, copy a color as an rgb(…) string, reveal a copied file in Finder, or save a copied image or PDF straight to disk.

Keyboard-first

Never touch the mouse

Everything in Freepaste is one keystroke away. Open it, find it, paste it — hands stay on the keys.

⌘⇧VOpen the barFrom any app, anywhere

1–9Paste by positionOr ⌘ + number while searching

←→Move between clipsArrow keys navigate

⏎Paste highlightedDrops into your last app

⌥Hold for plain textStrips formatting on paste

⌘⌫Remove a clipDeletes the highlighted one

Private by design

Your clipboard never
leaves your Mac

No account. No subscription. No sync to anyone's servers. History stays local — and Freepaste is built to leave sensitive data alone.

Skips passwords automatically. Anything marked concealed or transient (the nspasteboard.org standard) is never recorded.
Ignore specific apps. Add any app to an ignore list and its copies are never captured.
Pause or wipe at will. Pause capture entirely, or clear your history automatically on quit.
No permissions required. Works out of the box — Accessibility access is only optional, for auto-paste.

Settings

Tuned to the way
you work

Open Settings with ⌘, and make Freepaste yours.

Set your own shortcut for opening the popup.
Tune history size from 50 to 1,000 items — pinned clips don't count toward the cap.
Resize the popup as a fraction of your screen height.
Launch at login and run quietly from the menu bar, no Dock icon.

Get Freepaste

Two ways to install

Signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens with no Gatekeeper warning.

Homebrew

The fastest route if you already use Homebrew. One command and you're done.

brew install --cask bluehatkeem/tap/freepaste

Manual download

Grab the disk image and drag Freepaste.app into your Applications folder.

Download Freepaste 1.0 (.dmg)

SHA-256 fbe0c43f13f7c0006f9fb17355e3f39facd4c88800e5b89491b0e11fefced95b

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later Apple Silicon & Intel Signed & notarized MIT licensed

A Free Wayto Copy andPaste