paste-buff

Clipboard history for Mac: press ⌘⇧V to pick anything copied in the last 24 hours and paste it into your app

paste-buff is a clipboard history app for macOS. Press ⌘⇧V from any app, filter entries as you type, and paste any item copied in the last 24 hours straight back into the app you were using. It handles text, files and images, with files pasting back as real files and images keeping their pixels. Clips older than 24 hours are pruned every minute, and clips marked concealed or transient by password managers are never recorded. History is stored as a local JSON file with no account, no sync and no network code. Built with plain AppKit as a single process with no web view, it reports an idle memory footprint of about 16.4 MB and a 0.7 MB binary. It is free, signed and notarized, supports macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon and Intel, and its source is available on GitHub.

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paste-buff nails the small-tool ethos: plain AppKit, a 0.7 MB binary, and a published benchmark showing a 16.4 MB idle footprint, with the method and raw numbers in the README. The privacy choices are thoughtful too: password-manager clips are skipped, history auto-prunes after 24 hours, and there's no network code at all. Congrats on shipping something signed, notarized and open source.

Native AppKit with a 16.4 MB idle memory footprint
Skips concealed password-manager clips and has no network code

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