# Paste

> Clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad with pinboards

Paste keeps a searchable, unlimited history of everything you copy on Mac, iPhone and iPad and syncs it between devices through your own iCloud. Items you reuse often can be pinned to pinboards, which can be shared with a team. An MCP connection lets AI tools such as Claude, Codex and Cursor use your clipboard history as context once you approve access.

- **Category:** Desktop Utilities
- **Made by:** Paste Team ApS
- **Website:** https://pasteapp.io
- **Runs on:** macOS, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 4, 2026

## Pricing

Paste is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $2.49 / month, billed annually ($29.99).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial with every feature; the direct Mac download needs no account or card.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Personal (annual) | $2.49 per month, billed annually ($29.99) | Unlimited clipboard history, pinboards, search and sync across Mac, iPhone and iPad. |
| Personal (monthly) | $3.99 per month, billed monthly (US App Store price) | The same features paid month to month. |
| Family | $59.99 per year (US App Store price) | Paste for up to six people in an Apple Family Sharing group. Sold only through the App Store and billed annually. |
| Lifetime | $99.99 one-time purchase (US App Store price) | Pay once and use Paste on your personal devices with no recurring charge, including future updates. |

Read from https://pasteapp.io/pricing on Oct 4, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Paste before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Annual plan saves 37%** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks the annual Personal plan, $29.99 a year, as saving 37% compared with paying monthly. Source: https://pasteapp.io/pricing
- **30% off the first year for students and educators** (Education): Students and educators get 30% off the first year of an annual plan by contacting Paste before buying through its website. Source: https://pasteapp.io/pricing
- **Lifetime plan with future updates** (Lifetime license): A one-time Lifetime purchase unlocks Paste for good, including all future updates. The US App Store lists it at $99.99. Source: https://pasteapp.io/pricing
- **Included with a Setapp subscription** (Other savings): Paste for Mac is included in a Setapp subscription at no extra cost. Setapp does not offer the Lifetime or Family plans. Source: https://pasteapp.io/pricing

## Key features

- **Unlimited clipboard history:** Everything you copy is saved with no limit on age or count, and the whole history can be searched.
- **Pinboards:** Pin the snippets, links, colors and templates you use regularly to pinboards. Pinboards can be shared to keep a team in sync.
- **Sync through iCloud:** Clipboard history follows you across Mac, iPhone and iPad. The vendor says the data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud, not on its servers.
- **Privacy rules:** Set rules so that Paste ignores passwords and anything copied in apps you mark as sensitive.
- **Paste MCP for AI tools:** Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf can search your clipboard history and pinboards after you approve access. The server runs locally on the Mac.
- **Suggestions with Apple Intelligence:** Paste suggests what you are likely to paste next based on what you are working on, processed on the Mac by Apple Intelligence.

## Good for

- People who copy and reuse text, links and images all day on a Mac
- Moving copied items between a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad
- Setapp subscribers, since the Mac app is included at no extra cost
- Giving AI coding tools access to things you copied earlier

## Worth knowing

- There is no free version; after the 7-day trial a plan is needed, though your saved history is kept.
- Apple platforms only. The App Store listing requires macOS 14 or later and iOS or iPadOS 26 or later.
- The Family plan is sold only on the App Store, and the Teams plan only on the website at a per-seat price that is not published.
- The pricing page showed only the annual price as text; the monthly, Family and Lifetime prices come from the US App Store listing.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.2 out of 5 from 1,326 ratings in the United States, read Oct 5, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id967805235

## Works with

Claude, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, iCloud

**Tags:** Clipboard manager, One-time purchase, AI features, Local-first

## Alternatives

- [Raycast](https://toolgpa.com/tools/raycast): Keyboard launcher with extensions, clipboard history and AI. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paste-vs-raycast)
- [Alfred](https://toolgpa.com/tools/alfred): Mac launcher with hotkeys, snippets and custom workflows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/alfred-vs-paste)
- [Setapp](https://toolgpa.com/tools/setapp): One subscription for a catalog of 300+ Mac and iOS apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paste-vs-setapp)
- [TextExpander](https://toolgpa.com/tools/textexpander): Text snippets that expand as you type, shared across a team. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/paste-vs-textexpander)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 4, 2026:

- https://pasteapp.io
- https://pasteapp.io/pricing
- https://pasteapp.io/help
- https://pasteapp.io/help/choose-a-plan
- https://pasteapp.io/help/paste-mcp
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paste-limitless-clipboard/id967805235

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/paste
Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).