TextStow
TextStow is a lightweight, native macOS menu bar utility that serves as your ultimate text workbench. It automatically records your copied content, ensuring that every snippet, image, or file is safely preserved and never forgotten.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
TextStow
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- Works Offline
- No registration required
- Portable
- Ad-free
- Full-Text Search
- No Tracking
- Dark Mode
- Text Expansion
- Text processing
- Sits in the MenuBar
- Offline
TextStow News & Activities
Recent activities
ruby-dw added TextStow as alternative to PromptClip and PastePal- ruby-dw commented on TextStow
- kai1122 reviewed TextStow
I initially downloaded TextStow just to stop losing my copied text when I accidentally hit CMD+C twice. But honestly, it has completely changed how I work on my Mac. It's not just a basic history logger; it's an actual "copy workspace" that saves me so much frustration every single day.
A few things that make this an absolute must-have for my daily workflow:
The Built-in Text Toolbox: Copying text from PDFs used to drive me crazy with all the broken lines and weird spacing. With TextStow, I...
- utilifyai added TextStow
TextStow information
What is TextStow?
TextStow is a lightweight, native macOS menu bar utility that serves as your ultimate text workbench. It automatically records your copied content, ensuring that every snippet, image, or file is safely preserved and never forgotten.
Key Features:
Clipboard History: Automatically records text, images, and files in the background. Access instantly with a shortcut.
Favorites & Collections: Save and organize frequently used templates, code snippets, or images with tags and categories.
Built-in Text Processing: Format JSON, decode Base64, convert text cases, fix PDF line breaks, and more, directly within the app.
100% Privacy Focused: All data is stored in a local SQLite database. Zero cloud syncing, zero network transmission.
Comments and Reviews
I initially downloaded TextStow just to stop losing my copied text when I accidentally hit CMD+C twice. But honestly, it has completely changed how I work on my Mac. It's not just a basic history logger; it's an actual "copy workspace" that saves me so much frustration every single day.
A few things that make this an absolute must-have for my daily workflow:
The Built-in Text Toolbox: Copying text from PDFs used to drive me crazy with all the broken lines and weird spacing. With TextStow, I can instantly clean up the formatting, fix broken lines, or even format messy JSON data right before I paste it. No more pasting into a random web tool first!
Prompt Templates: I use AI tools a lot for work, and being able to save my favorite prompts with variables (like {{name}}) is incredible. I just fill in the blanks and paste—it is a huge productivity booster.
Folders & Favorites: Instead of my most-used links, email replies, and code snippets getting buried in my history, I can pin them or organize them into folders for permanent use.
100% Local Privacy: I love that everything is stored locally on my Mac. Knowing my sensitive work data or passwords aren't being synced to the cloud gives me total peace of mind.
If you are constantly copying, pasting, and tweaking text, do yourself a favor and get this. It’s super lightweight, sits quietly in the menu bar, and just works perfectly. Highly recommended!