Clipaste is a macOS clipboard manager built with SwiftUI and SwiftData.
The project is：
Its core goal is simple: stay fast, smooth, and memory-efficient even when clipboard history becomes large and individual entries become heavy.
✨ Highlights
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🚀 Fast response across daily interactions
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🧠 Low memory footprint
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🗂️ Smooth even with very large clipboard histories
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📝 Large text entries remain fluid instead of dragging the UI down
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🐸 Automatically recognizes image content and supports searching
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🔄 Imports history from Paste, PasteNow, and iCopy
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↔️ Supports both horizontal and vertical layouts
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☁️ Optional iCloud / CloudKit sync
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🆓 Free and open source
🧩 Preview
🏎️ Why Clipaste
Clipaste is designed around the failure cases that many clipboard managers start to show under heavier workloads:
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large histories become sluggish
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large text payloads make the UI slow down
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scrolling and searching stop feeling immediate
Clipaste is optimized for the opposite:
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smooth browsing with large histories
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responsive handling of heavy text content
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fast search, review, and re-paste workflows
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strong performance without paying for it with excessive memory usage
If you have used Paste or PasteNow before, the difference is straightforward:
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Clipaste puts more emphasis on performance under larger histories
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Clipaste stays more responsive with heavier text payloads
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Clipaste also gives you layout flexibility and open-source extensibility they do not
🔄 Migration
Clipaste can migrate clipboard history from:
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Paste
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PasteNow
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iCopy
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Maccy
The goal is simple: switch without losing your existing history.
🧱 Tech Stack
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SwiftUI for the interface
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SwiftData for storage and migration
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CloudKit for optional sync
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Native macOS app architecture
🖥️ Requirements
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macOS 14.0+
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Xcode 16+
📦 Install
Recommended installation method:
brew tap gangz1o/clipaste
brew install --cask gangz1o-clipaste
To update Clipaste, you can either:
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Use the in-app updater
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Update via Homebrew:
brew update
brew upgrade --cask gangz1o-clipaste
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