Pesty

A free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS - inspired by [Paste](https://pasteapp.io).

Your clipboard history as a beautiful, color-coded strip that slides up from the bottom of your screen.

Pesty is free and open source. The one-time fee on the Mac App Store is optional - it only helps cover the yearly Apple Developer Program fee that keeps the app signed and notarized. You never have to pay it: get the exact same app for free via [Homebrew](#install) or direct download (opens in a new tab).

⭐ If Pesty saved you money, star the repo - it genuinely helps.

What is Pesty?

Pesty keeps a history of everything you copy and lets you get it back instantly. Hit a global hotkey, the strip slides up, you pick a clip with the arrow keys (or ⌘1–⌘9), press return, and it pastes straight into whatever app you were in.

It is a faithful, native reimplementation of the Paste experience - built in Swift + SwiftUI, with zero third-party dependencies, fully signed and notarized by Apple, and free forever.

Features

• Slide-up strip - full-width, translucent bar that springs up from the bottom of the active screen.
• Color-coded cards - each clip has a header band tinted per source app (consistent per app), with the app icon, type label, when it was copied, a preview, and a footer showing character count and a quick-paste number.
• All content types - plain text, rich text, links, images, files, and colors.
• Pinboards - save clips you reuse into named, color-tagged collections that never expire.
• iCloud sync - optionally keep your history and pinboards in sync across your Macs via iCloud Drive.
• Instant search - start typing to filter your whole history.
• Keyboard-first - arrow keys to move, return to paste, ⌘1–⌘9 to quick-paste, ⌫ or ⌘⌫ to delete, esc to close.
• Paste directly - drops the clip into the app you were using, no manual ⌘V needed.
• Privacy-aware - ignores clips marked concealed by password managers; history stored with 0600 permissions.
• Menu-bar app - runs quietly as a menu-bar item, optional launch at login.
• Native & light - a single universal .app, no Electron, no background web stack.

Direct download

• Download Pesty-x.y.z.dmg from the latest release (opens in a new tab).
• Open the DMG and drag Pesty to Applications.
• Launch Pesty. It lives in your menu bar.

The build is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it opens without Gatekeeper warnings.