Clipbara vs Pasteable

Clipbara is a macOS clipboard manager that keeps a searchable history of copied items, including text, rich text, HTML, images, links, files, and colors. Search can examine clip contents, titles, or source apps, with filters by type and date. Pinboards organize reusable clips, and Quick Look previews items from the history panel. Selecting a clip restores it to the clipboard for pasting into the active app. The maker says history stays locally and that the app has no account, server, or analytics. Capture, search, preview, and paste work offline, though the DMG build uses the network for Sparkle update checks. Users can exclude apps from recording and export or import histories as JSON. Builds are available from the Mac App Store, DMG, and Homebrew. The source is GPL-3.0, while the Mac App Store edition has a separate proprietary license. The DMG / Homebrew plan is free for macOS 14 Sonoma or later; a 7-day trial is listed for the App Store in-app purchase, and Clipbara Lifetime costs $7.99, paid once purchase for macOS 14.0 or later.

Pasteable saves copied text, rich text, HTML, images, files, URLs, and code in a searchable clipboard history. It offers full-text and on-device semantic search, including searches for images by description. Smart collections sort clips into groups such as Photos, Code, Links, Files, and Design; users can also create collections with custom rules. On desktop, ⌘/Ctrl+Shift+V opens a keyboard-driven overlay, and system-wide snippets can expand saved clips. Clip history is stored locally in SQLite, works offline without an account, and is encrypted at rest with an operating-system-sealed key. The maker says synced clips are encrypted on the device and its servers store only ciphertext. The free plan includes unlimited local history and 25 synced clips. Pasteable Pro costs $6 a month or $60 a year; Lifetime costs $80.00 USD one-time. The site lists macOS 11+, Windows 10 and 11, and 64-bit Linux, and says iOS and Android apps are in App Store and Play Store review.