PasteDaemon
Menu-bar clipboard manager for macOS enabling automatic triggers, shell-style pipelines with variable referencing, persistent undo per entry, fuzzy-searchable and time-filtered history, hotkeys, paste queue, per-app exclusion, image OCR, import options, robust privacy, and local HTTP API.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Support for scripting
- No Tracking
- Autocompletion
- Works Offline
- Full-Text Search
- Portable
- No registration required
- Snippets
- Sits in the MenuBar
PasteDaemon News & Activities
Recent activities
Mysdes added PasteDaemon as alternative to Frset- Danilo_Venom updated PasteDaemon
- Armand-Halbert added PasteDaemon
Armand-Halbert added PasteDaemon as alternative to Alfred, Raycast, CopyQ and Ditto
PasteDaemon information
Developed by
Armand Halbert Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $5 and $20 + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
53 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
What is PasteDaemon?
PasteDaemon is a menu-bar clipboard manager for macOS that acts on clipboard contents rather than only storing them.
It works two ways. Triggers run automatically: a trigger is a set of conditions plus a chain of actions, and it fires when something is copied — stripping tracking parameters from a URL, pretty-printing minified JSON, or converting a ticket number into a link, with no user interaction. Alternatively, the search overlay accepts shell-style pipelines typed against the history, where $1 is the most recent clipping, $2 the one before it, and named variables can be defined and reused:
$1 | trim | upper $2 | totz PST $subtotal + $shipping
Arithmetic is decimal rather than floating point. Results preview live while the command is typed, before it runs. Filters and trigger actions are the same objects, so a pipeline worked out by hand can be saved as a trigger, and a filter may be a shell script.
Every value an entry has previously held is retained, so transforms are undoable per entry.
Other features: persistent searchable history with fuzzy matching, automatic OCR of copied images so screenshots are searchable by their text, hotkeys for action, per-application exclusion, time-based retention, paste-as-plain-text, and a stack that collects several copies and dispenses them one per paste. A local HTTP API and an MCP server are included, both disabled by default.
PasteDaemon can import existing history from Maccy, Alfred, Flycut and CopyQ.
Accessibility permission is optional and required only for automatic pasting, abbreviation expansion and the paste queue. There is no account, sync or telemetry; pasteboard items marked concealed are not recorded; licenses are verified offline. The only network request the application makes is an update check against a configurable feed.