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Paste

Visual clipboard history with a real lifetime plan

Price: $89.99 once

Lifetime tierA one-time plan of a subscription app

Buy direct WebsiteApp Store

Price read on pasteapp.io, the page Buy direct opens.

The catch

At $89.99 the lifetime plan takes about three years of the annual plan to pay off

The full picture

$89.99 is roughly three years of the $29.99 annual plan, so it only wins if you stay with Paste that long. Switching from an existing subscription is not instant: you cancel, wait out the current billing period, and then buy Lifetime. Where you buy changes what you get — a website purchase is a licence key, an App Store purchase is tied to that Apple Account, so pick deliberately. Cross-device history depends on the developer's sync service, which means your clipboard leaves the Mac. Family and Team pricing are subscription only, and the student discount does not apply to the Lifetime plan.

Pays back in
10 months
Seats
No Mac count statedNo Mac count is stated: every plan covers Paste on Mac, iPhone and iPad across the devices signed in with the same Apple Account.
Developer account
None needed
Buy once$89.99Rent 5 years$540

$450 kept over five years, and you still have the app.
Against Setapp at $108 a year, Mac plan billed yearly, before tax; includes Paste for Mac but not the iOS apps. Also replaces Raycast Pro at $96 a year.

What it looks like

Paste: Clean, unframed Paste window (2400x916 PNG): the search field with active 'Link' and 'Mail' type filters, a live date-range dropdown showing 'Last week / Last month', the traffic-light buttons and history icon in the top-right, and three clipboard cards below with source URLs. Best single view of the actual UI.
Clean, unframed Paste window (2400x916 PNG). Vendor site (pasteapp.io, Next.js static media asset)
Paste: The Paste shelf open across the bottom of a Mac screen, with the pinboard tab bar visible — Clipboard, Useful Links, Important Notes, Email Templates, Code Snippets, plus a '+' — and six typed history cards (Link, Text, Image) showing previews and character counts. Lower half of a MacBook bezel is in frame.
The Paste shelf open across the bottom of a Mac screen, with the pinboard tab bar visible — Clipboard, Useful Links, Important Notes, Email Templates, Code Snippets, plus a '+' — and six typed history cards (Link, Text, Image) showing previews and character counts. Vendor site (pasteapp.io)
Paste: The same clipboard history on Mac, iPad and iPhone side by side — illustrates sync. The Mac shelf is partly occluded by the iPad; device mockups are prominent, so this is the weakest of the three.
The same clipboard history on Mac, iPad and iPhone side by side — illustrates sync. Vendor site (pasteapp.io)

Images belong to their developers.

What you’re buying

Paste is the clipboard manager for people who recognise things by shape rather than by reading a list. Hit the shortcut and your history comes up as a wide shelf of cards you scroll through; pinboards hold the snippets you use every day, and search finds the address you copied last Tuesday. It syncs to iPhone and iPad, and for most buyers that is the feature doing the work — copy on the laptop, paste on the phone.

The licence is the awkward part. Paste is sold as a subscription first, $29.99 a year or $3.99 a month, and the $89.99 Lifetime plan sits beside it as a genuine one-time purchase with future updates included. Break-even is about three years, so buying it is a bet on the app and its developer still being here in 2029. Buy direct and you get a licence key; buy on the App Store and it belongs to that Apple Account. Already subscribed? You cannot swap straight over — cancel, wait for the period to end, then buy.

Don't pay $89.99 if a plain local history is all you actually want: Raycast's free clipboard history or Maccy will do that and never send anything anywhere. Paste's cross-device history goes through the developer's sync service, which is a trade worth making on purpose rather than by default.

What owners report

Points that recur across the discussions below. A report of what users say, not our verdict: we don’t review software.

Praised

  • People who have worked through many clipboard managers repeatedly say nothing else matches how Paste presents and searches history

Criticised

  • The price is the recurring reason posters give for going looking for an alternative, usually with a free manager like Maccy named in the same breath

Details

The price in full

The Lifetime plan is $89.99 paid once, described on the pricing page as "pay once and use Paste forever, including all future updates". The subscription alternatives are $3.99 a month billed monthly, or $29.99 a year billed annually (shown on the card as $2.49 a month). Prices are in USD excluding taxes and vary by region. Buying from the website gets you a licence key; the Family plan for up to six people is annual and App Store only, and the Team plan is website only. The 30% student discount applies to the first year of an annual plan, not to Lifetime. Paste for Mac is also included in Setapp.

The Paste page at pasteapp.io
The developer’s own page. pasteapp.io, captured 22 Sep 2026
Free trial
Yes
Works offline
Partly
Apple Silicon
Native
Minimum macOS
not stated
App Store rating
4.2 from 1,321 people
Developer
Paste Team

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