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Pastely

A light, local-only clipboard manager for macOS: ⇧⌘V opens your history next to the cursor, you type a few letters, hit Return, and it pastes into the app you were in. Text, images and files, with fuzzy search over the words inside screenshots.

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The Pastely history panel: a search field, filters for text, images, files and pinned, and a list of recent copies with ⌘1 to ⌘9 shortcuts.
The panel — eight recent copies, each one a keystroke away
Searching 'invoice' in Pastely finds a screenshot of an invoice; the recognized text is shown beside the image.
A search for “invoice” finds the screenshot, with the text read on-device
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What it is

A clipboard manager sees everything you copy, so Pastely treats that as a responsibility rather than a feature. Every payload, preview and thumbnail is encrypted with AES-GCM and the key never leaves your login keychain. Copies flagged as concealed by password managers are skipped, and any app can be added to the ignore list.

Screenshots become text: on-device recognition with Apple’s Vision framework reads an invoice, a terminal or an error dialog within a second of copying it, so a search for “invoice” finds the picture. Shift+Return pastes the recognized text instead of the image.

Free and open source under MIT. Signed and notarized, macOS 15 or later on Apple silicon.

Limitations
No sync and no accounts by design — history lives encrypted on one Mac, and the only network request is the update check, which can be turned off.
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