vs P Maclip vs Paste
Paste is a beautiful paid clipboard manager with a visual strip, Pinboards and iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone and iPad. It is subscription-based with no free tier.
Where Paste shines
- iPhone and iPad apps
- Pinboards and team sharing
- Apple Intelligence integration
Why people pick Maclip
- Completely free — no subscription
- End-to-end encrypted sync and encryption at rest
- Notch shelf with drag & drop
- Secret detection with auto-delete
- Selection capture, tracking-parameter removal
Feature by feature
| Feature | Maclip | Paste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Subscription from $2.49/mo or $29.99/yr |
| Text, images, files | Yes + RTF, colors, code | Yes + colors, code |
| History search | Yes Including OCR and app names | Yes |
| Text-in-image search (OCR) | Yes On-device (Vision) | Yes |
| Pinned items | Yes | Yes Pinboards |
| Paste stack / sequential paste | Yes + collect copies into a stack | Yes |
| Snippets with templates | Yes {date}, {clipboard}, {cursor}… | Partly Templates as a content type |
| Text transformations | Yes 24 transforms | Partly Plain text, Writing Tools |
| Notch shelf with drag & drop | Yes Shelf + “Copied” animation | Not stated |
| Auto-capture of selected text | Yes 3 modes | Not stated |
| Secret detection & auto-delete | Yes API keys, tokens, cards, OTPs | Not stated |
| Ignores password managers | Yes nspasteboard.org | Yes |
| Per-app exclusions | Yes 4 rules per app | Yes |
| Encrypted history at rest | Yes AES-256-GCM | Not stated |
| Sync between Macs | Yes iCloud Drive | Yes iCloud, Mac + iPhone + iPad |
| End-to-end encrypted sync | Yes PBKDF2 + AES-256-GCM | Not stated |
| Hidden from screen sharing | Yes | Yes |
| Tracking-parameter removal | Yes ~70 parameters | Not stated |
| Open source | No Not yet | No |
| macOS version | 14 Sonoma+ | 14+ |
Paste data checked on November 13, 2026 using official sources: pasteapp.io, pasteapp.io, pasteapp.io, apps.apple.com. “Not stated” means the vendor doesn’t publicly mention the feature.
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