Free clipboard manager for Mac
Everything you copy, one keystroke away.
PasteBee remembers the text, links, images, files, colors and screenshots you copy, and brings them back with ⌘⇧V.
Press ⌘⇧V anywhere
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Your history opens as a floating panel over whatever you're doing. Pick a card with the arrow keys, press Return, and it's pasted right where you were typing.
Clipboard history for text, images, links and files
Every copy, saved
PasteBee keeps a history of everything you copy and sorts it by type. Copy the same thing twice and it moves back to the front instead of piling up.
Screenshots land here too
Take a screenshot with ⌘⇧4 and it shows up in your history, ready to paste into a chat or a doc. How screenshot history works.
Find text inside images
Search covers what you copied, the app it came from, and the words in your screenshots. Text recognition runs on your Mac.
Pinboards
Keep the snippets you reuse, like addresses, canned replies and brand colors, in named, color-coded boards.
Paste Stack
Copy a few things in a row, then paste them back in the same order with ⌘V. Handy for filling out forms.
Pick any color on screen
Use the eyedropper in the panel to grab a color from anywhere. PasteBee saves its hex code with a preview.
Paste as plain text
Press ⇧↩ to drop fonts and formatting, so pasted text matches the document you're in.
Stays out of your way
PasteBee lives in the menu bar. The panel opens over your work without pulling you out of the app you're in, so the paste lands where you were typing.
Keeps what you want
Choose how long to keep history, from one day to forever, and pause recording from the menu bar at any time.
Private by default
Your history stays on your Mac. There's no account and no cloud. Copies from password managers are skipped, and you can exclude any app.
Mac clipboard shortcuts that keep your hands on the keys
How to install PasteBee on your Mac
PasteBee lives in your menu bar as a little bee. There's no setup beyond these steps.
Download and drag
Open PasteBee.dmg and drag PasteBee into your Applications folder.
Open it
Launch PasteBee. A bee appears in your menu bar.
Allow Accessibility
When asked, turn on PasteBee in System Settings, Privacy & Security, Accessibility. This lets it paste into other apps for you.
Copy, then press ⌘⇧V
Copy anything as usual. Your history is waiting whenever you need it.
Blocked on first launch? This early version isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS may stop it the first time. Go to System Settings, Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway.
Download PasteBee for Mac. It's free.
No account, no trial, no subscription. Download it and start copying.
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Is PasteBee really free?
Yes. Every feature on this page is included, and there are no ads or in-app purchases.
Doesn't macOS have clipboard history built in?
Only partly. Every Mac keeps the last thing you copied. macOS Tahoe 26 adds an optional clipboard list in Spotlight that keeps items for up to 7 days. PasteBee keeps your history as long as you want, adds screenshots automatically, and runs on macOS 14 Sonoma and later.
Does my clipboard leave my Mac?
No. Your history is stored locally on your Mac. PasteBee has no account, no servers and no analytics.
What about passwords?
Password managers mark what they copy as private, and PasteBee doesn't record those items. You can also exclude any app in Settings, Rules.
Why does it need Accessibility permission?
To paste for you, PasteBee presses ⌘V in the app you were using. macOS requires Accessibility permission for that. Without it, PasteBee still copies the item and you can paste it yourself.
Can I pause it?
Yes. Right-click the bee in the menu bar and choose Pause Monitoring, or press ⌘T in the panel. Nothing is recorded until you resume.