Nothing you copy is ever gone
Hundreds of clippings, in order, with where they came from. Paste the third-last thing with ⇧⌘V and a couple of arrow keys, even when something else is on the clipboard now. Sticky bezel stays up while you pick.
macOS Clipboard manager, 2026 edition
Your clipboard,
Your clipboard,
with a memory
and a brain.
Every copy, kept and searchable. Secrets kept out. And a clipboard you can ask questions, yourself or through your coding agent, without a byte leaving your Mac.
Paste anything you ever copied with ⇧⌘V. Search all of it with ⇧⌘B. No account. No subscription. No cloud of ours.
What it does
Copy like nobody is counting. Stashcut is.
A clipboard manager first: fast, keyboard driven, out of the way. Then everything a clipboard should have learned to do by 2026.
Find it in a keystroke
⇧⌘B opens search over the whole history. Ignores case, ignores accents, understands Arabic, Japanese and emoji, and shows you what meant the same thing, not only what spelled the same.
Secrets never land in history
API keys, passwords, card and bank numbers are recognised the moment you copy them and kept out. You get told, once, and can hand the secret to 1Password instead of the clipboard.
A guard before a risky paste
About to paste something that looks like a credential into a chat, a terminal, or a browser? Stashcut asks first. You choose which apps count as risky.
Screenshots too
Copy an image and it is kept alongside your text, saved to a folder you can open, and pastes back like it never left.
Send it to Obsidian
One key files the clipping, text or picture, into today's daily note in your vault, under a heading Stashcut keeps for itself. Your notes stay yours; nothing is synced anywhere.
Looks the way you want
Solid colour, gradient, or your own image behind the bezel, on every screen. Menu bar icon, hotkeys, bezel size, how long the panel stays: all yours to set.
Ask your clipboard
The thing you copied at 09:41 is the answer. Ask.
Point Stashcut at a model running on your Mac (Ollama works out of the box) or at any endpoint you trust. Then ask, in plain words, and it answers from the clippings that are actually about your question, and only those.
Local by default, honest about context
Stashcut picks the handful of clippings that relate to your question, keeps them inside a budget it shows you, and never sends the rest. Credentials are excluded before anything is assembled. Nothing leaves the machine unless the endpoint you chose is somewhere else, and the Preferences pane says so in one sentence.
› ask what did the client want changed on the proposal?
Three things, from the clipping you copied from Mail at 16:12:
1. move delivery to the week of the 5th
2. drop the onboarding workshop, they will do it in-house
3. invoice in two parts, 40 / 60
used 2 of 4 related clippings · 1 credential withheld · model: local
For coding agents
Your agent forgot what you pasted. Stashcut did not.
Stashcut ships a tiny read-only Model Context Protocol server. opencode, Claude Code, or anything that speaks MCP can search your history, fetch one clipping, or see the newest ones. Off by default. One button to set up.
Three tools, zero writes
search get recent. That is the whole surface. An agent cannot add to your history, delete from it, or paste. It runs as a child of the agent you started, so there is no port, no token, no daemon.
Set up without touching a config file
Press Configure opencode or Configure Claude. Stashcut shows you the exact commands, runs that tool's own CLI, checks for a duplicate first and verifies afterwards. It never opens or rewrites your configuration file. Ever.
Credentials stay invisible to agents, in every form
Not the value, not the 1Password reference, not even the item's title. They are reported as a count so the agent knows something was withheld and does not reason around a gap it cannot see. Clippings that look like card numbers, bank accounts, keys or bulk email lists come back with their text replaced by a plain notice.
$ claude mcp list
stashcut ✓ Connected (user)
/Applications/Stashcut.app/Contents/MacOS/stashcut-mcp
› agent: stashcut.search("invoice")
2 clippings · 1 credential withheld
How it feels
Copy. Stash. Ask.
Copy like always
Nothing to learn. ⌘C in any app. Stashcut notices, keeps it, and notes where it came from.
Paste from anywhere in time
⇧⌘V shows the stack. Arrow to the one you mean, or type to search. Pin the bezel with a space when you are picking several.
Ask when you cannot remember
“the tracking number from Tuesday”, “that colour I copied from Figma”. Stashcut finds the clipping and hands you the answer.
Privacy, the boring kind
Your clipboard is the most private thing on your Mac. We treat it that way.
No account
Buy it, download it, use it. There is nothing to sign in to.
No analytics
Stashcut contains no telemetry, no crash reporter that phones home, no “anonymous usage data”.
No cloud of ours
History lives in your Library folder. The only network calls are the ones you configure, to the model endpoint you chose.
Pricing
€29. Once. Not per month, not per seat, not per question.
Bang for the buck is the whole idea. Pay once, use it on the Macs you own, get every 1.x update.
€29one-time, VAT included
- Clipboard history, search, sticky bezel, hotkeys
- Secret detection, paste guard, 1Password hand-off
- Ask your clipboard, with the model of your choice
- Obsidian, image capture, backdrops
- The MCP server and one-button agent setup
- All 1.x updates, on every Mac you own
- 14-day refund, no questions asked
Requires macOS 10.13 or later. Best on the current macOS.
What €29 buys elsewhere
Ask your clipboard uses a model you already run or already pay for. Stashcut adds no per-question cost of its own.
Questions
Asked before you asked
Does it need an internet connection?
No. History, search, secret detection and the agent server all work offline. Ask your clipboard talks to whatever model endpoint you set, which can be a model on this very Mac.
Which AI does it use?
Yours. Point it at Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Stashcut ships no model, keeps no key of its own, and never routes your text through a server of ours.
Where is my history stored?
In macOS preferences under com.stashcut.app and in ~/Library/Application Support/Stashcut for images, backdrops and the search index. Delete the app and the folder, and it is gone.
Is the agent server safe to turn on?
It is off until you switch it on. It is read-only, it runs only while an agent you started is running, it never returns credentials in any form, and it withholds anything that looks like a card, an account, a key or a bulk mailing list.
Is Stashcut open source?
Stashcut is built on Flycut and Jumpcut, both MIT licensed, and their notices ship in the app's Credits tab. The additions that make Stashcut what it is are proprietary. You are paying for those, and for the person keeping them working.
Can I use it on more than one Mac?
Yes. One licence covers the Macs you personally use.
What about iCloud sync and an iPhone app?
Not yet. Sync will arrive as an opt-in, off by default, once the plumbing meets the same standard as everything else here. An iOS companion is on the list after that.
Refunds?
Fourteen days, no questions. If Stashcut does not earn its place in your menu bar, write and get your €29 back.