Pastebot

Infinite clipboards for your Mac

£9.99 FROM Tapbots, tapbots.com NEEDS OS X 10.11 or higher

The Mac’s Clipboard hasn’t evolved past the bare basics of

copy and paste. Old hands may argue the Mac’s even gone backwards – once, Scrapbook enabled you to store several items to paste elsewhere. Now Pastebot has arrived – a ‘super Scrapbook’ for the modern Mac.

At its most basic, Pastebot is a huge clipboard, holding up to 1,000 clippings. You can ignore copies over a certain size, sync clippings over iCloud, and easily get at them using a Quick Paste window invoked by using The most recent 10 copies can be pasted using number keys; or you can navigate with the arrow keys or the mouse, and navigate through your clippings history using the window’s search field.

This proves responsive and reliable, but it’s arguably elsewhere that Pastebot’s real magic happens. The main window lists data for each clip (origin, size, date, and so on), and you can search by these criteria. Favourites can be stored as custom clipping sets, and accessed using shortcuts.

Best of all are the filters, which rework copied text – for example, changing its case or transforming words into an HTML list. Several filters are included, but you can make your own. In the right hands, filters make Pastebot hugely powerful, but even just the basics make it well worth the outlay.

You need never lose a clipping again, as Pastebot stores your last thousand.