Paste alternative
Paste alternative with more features. No subscription.
ClipBook is a powerful Paste alternative that's is 10x cheaper, has 4x more features, built for power Mac users who copy and paste a lot and value speed and efficiency.
ClipBook is an incredible app with an incredible UI and I hope to use it a lot more.
Tad Jimenez
Thanks for making ClipBook! It really is amazing -- both the product and the website.
Yuvraj Sarda
I've been using your app and to be honest, it's great! Thank you very much.
Mauricio
Two philosophies
Built for different people
Both apps remember everything you copy. They differ in who they're designed for and how efficiently you can organize and work with your clipboard history.
ClipBook is about efficiency
Made for advanced users who copy and paste a lot and need to do it fast.
- Keyboard-first
- Compact list, 20+ items on screen at once
- Sequential pasting without showing any windows
- Customize 26+ keyboard shortcuts
- Focused on working with the clipboard history
- Copy & merge, merge items, split text items
- 78 text transformations
- Powerful search and filters
- Multi-paste with a separator and more
Paste is about visuals
Made for regular users who need to access their clipboard history from time to time.
- Mouse-first
- Large visual cards, 5 items on screen at once
- A separate Stack window for sequential pasting
- Customize 6 keyboard shortcuts
- Focused on keeping the clipboard history
- Lifetime price
- $9.99 vs $99.99
- ClipBook is 10x cheaper than Paste. Lifetime updates included.
- Features shipped in a year
- 35 vs 9
- ClipBook shipped 4x more new features than Paste over the last 12 months
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- 26 vs 6
- Every action keyboard shortcut can be customized to meet your workflow
Side by side
ClipBook vs Paste
Prices, privacy, platforms and features, as of September 2026.
| Feature | ClipBook | Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ||
| Lifetime license | $9.99 | $99.99 |
| Free trial | 5 days | 7 days |
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days | App Store rules |
| Privacy | ||
| Where your history lives | Locally | Locally & iCloud |
| Ignore apps & sensitive content | Yes | Yes |
| Ignore specific content | Yes | No |
| Clear history on quit | Yes | No |
| Clear history on Mac restart | Yes | No |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Platforms | ||
| Mac | macOS 13+ | macOS 14+ |
| iPhone and iPad | No | Yes |
| iCloud Sync | No | Yes |
| Features | ||
| Unlimited history | Yes | Yes |
| Search text inside images (OCR) | Yes | Yes |
| Custom item name | Yes | Yes |
| Pause and resume | Yes | Yes |
| Preview | Yes | Yes |
| Tags | Yes | Yes |
| Hide during screen sharing | Yes | Yes |
| Hide passwords & secrets | Yes | No |
| Sequential paste | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-paste | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-paste with a separator | Yes | No |
| Open window at mouse cursor | Yes | No |
| Open window at text caret | Yes | No |
| Open window at last location | Yes | No |
| Text transformations | Yes | No |
| Paste and delete | Yes | No |
| Copy and merge | Yes | No |
| Copy text from image | Yes | No |
| Copy text from QR code | Yes | No |
| Merge text items | Yes | No |
| Split a text item | Yes | No |
| Treat digit numbers as colors | Yes | No |
| History retention for item types | Yes | No |
| Pin items | Yes | No |
| Save image clip as file | Yes | No |
| Open file clip with default app | Yes | No |
| Multiple files preview | Yes | No |
| Import & Export | Yes | No |
Based on public pricing pages, help docs and App Store listings as of September 2026. Prices in USD before tax. Paste is a trademark of its owner. ClipBook is not affiliated with it. Spotted something outdated? Let us know.
Where ClipBook goes further
Built for people who paste a lot of text
Paste focuses on a beautiful history and cross-device sync. ClipBook focuses on the efficiency of working with the clipboard history.
Transform text as you paste
Paste as plain text, change case, trim whitespace, strip formatting or remove line breaks without leaving the keyboard.
How it works →
Copy and merge
Copy several snippets one after another and ClipBook joins them into a single item, so you paste once instead of five times.
How it works →
Paste many items, your way
Select several items and paste them together, separated by a new line, a comma, a tab or anything you choose.
How it works →
Find text inside screenshots
ClipBook reads the text in every image you copy, so you can search for it later and copy it out as plain text.
How it works →
Honest take
Where Paste is better
ClipBook is not the right pick for everyone. Paste does a few things ClipBook deliberately does not.
iPhone & iPad
Paste has native iPhone and iPad apps. ClipBook is Mac-only and has no mobile app.
Teams
Paste's Team plan lets you share pinboards with colleagues. ClipBook is a single-user app.
iCloud sync
Paste syncs your history between Macs, iPhones and iPads through iCloud.
Privacy
No cloud, no account, no analytics
Paste stores your clipboard in your private iCloud so it can follow you across devices. ClipBook takes the opposite trade: your history is written only to your Mac and never leaves it.
There are no user accounts, no built-in analytics and no tracking, and the source code is public so you can check for yourself.
Why doesn't ClipBook have iCloud sync?
Sync would mean putting your clipboard, which regularly contains passwords, tokens, addresses and private messages, into a cloud database. ClipBook is built around the promise that this data never leaves your Mac, and that promise is easier to verify when there is simply no code path that uploads anything.
Pricing
One price.
Lifetime access.
One-time payment. No subscription.
Get lifetime access to ClipBook on your Mac.
- One-time payment
- 14-day money-back guarantee
- Lifetime updates
- Lifetime support
- Native macOS app
- 1 Mac device license
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FAQ
Yes, if you use a single Mac and want a clipboard manager without a subscription. ClipBook keeps unlimited history, searches text inside images, pastes directly into the active app and adds text tools Paste doesn't have, such as merging, splitting, transformations and multi-paste with separators. It is a one-time purchase of $9.99 with lifetime updates. If you need iPhone support or iCloud sync, Paste is the better fit.
As of September 2026, Paste costs $29.99 per year ($2.49 per month billed annually), or $89.99 for a lifetime license on the App Store. ClipBook costs $9.99 once for one Mac, $14.99 for two Macs and $29.99 for five Macs, with all future updates included. Over three years, Paste's annual plan comes to $89.97 while ClipBook stays at $9.99.
No. ClipBook is a Mac-only app and stores your clipboard history locally. There is no iCloud sync and no iPhone or iPad app. This is a deliberate privacy decision: your clipboard never leaves your Mac. Paste offers both iCloud sync and mobile apps.
Not directly. ClipBook can't read Paste's database. The practical approach is to copy the snippets you rely on once while ClipBook is running and add them to favorites. ClipBook captures everything you copy from the moment you launch it.
No. ClipBook is a one-time purchase. You pay once, get a license key and receive every future update for free. There is also a 14-day money-back guarantee. See the pricing page for the one, two and five-Mac licenses.
Paste for Mac is included in a Setapp subscription. ClipBook is not on Setapp; it is sold directly on this site and can also be installed via Homebrew.
ClipBook supports macOS 13 Ventura and later on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Paste currently requires macOS 14 or later.
Every feature is unlocked for 5 days from the first launch. There is no credit card, no account and no sign-up. When the trial ends, your history stays on your Mac and is available again as soon as you activate a license.
With love
Get it. Try it. Buy it if you like it.
I hope you enjoy using ClipBook and it saves you a few hours each week. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact me.
Founder of ClipBook
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Never lose what you copy
Keep your copy history, organize it, quickly find what you need and paste it directly to the active app.
Keyboard-first · Native app · One-time purchase · Lifetime updates