Pastebot

Infinite clipboards for your Mac

$9.99 Developer Tapbots, tapbots.com/pastebot Requirements OS X 10.11 or later

At its most basic, Pastebot is a massive 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 using The most recent 10 copies can be pasted using number keys; or you can navigate using cursor keys or the mouse, and can delve deep into your clipboard history using the window’s search field. This proves responsive and reliable, but it’s arguably elsewhere 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. Favorites can be stored as custom clipping sets, and again 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 are included, but you can also make your own. In the right hands, these filters make Pastebot hugely powerful, but even when just using the basics, it’s well worth the outlay. THE BOTTOM LINE. A utility that should appeal to the widest range of Mac users – and end up permanently welded to a great many Macs.