macOS Clipboard manager · pay once · no account

Your clipboard, with a memory and a brain.

Find what you copied. Make it useful with local AI. Keep the original, and your history, on your Mac.

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Looked like an API key
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Hidden · memory only
forgotten after your deadline🔒
Messages4 min
Meeting moved to 14:00, room 4B. Bring the signed proposal.
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Terminaljust now
git rebase -i origin/main
then git push --force-with-lease
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Mail09:41
Dear Ms Alvarez, thank you for the revised invoice. INV-2026-0917 now reads €4,820 and we agree with the split you proposed.
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Screenshot1 min
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Safari12 min
developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/
nspasteboard
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Figma · 32 min
#6D4DFF
Brand violet, primary button fill
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Works with

  • Ollama
  • 1Password
  • Obsidian
  • Claude Code
  • opencode
  • Any MCP agent

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.

Nothing you copy is ever gone

Hundreds of clippings, in order, with the app they came from. Paste the third-last thing with ⇧+⌘+v and two arrow keys, even when something else is on the clipboard now. The bezel stays up while you pick.

Find it in a keystroke

⇧+⌘+? searches the whole history. Every word, in any order, with a typo forgiven. Ignores case and accents, understands Arabic, Japanese and emoji, and finds what meant the same thing, with a model that ships inside Stashcut and never goes online.

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.

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.

Code looks like code

Copy a snippet and the bezel colours it in its own language: sixteen of them, from Python and TypeScript to Shell, SQL and YAML. A small model on your Mac tells code from prose, so a plain sentence stays plain.

Copy, press, paste

Summarize, rewrite clearly, fix spelling, explain, or translate to English: ⇧+⌘ and the first letter works on whatever you copied, without opening anything. Runs on the model you already use for Ask.

Results stack on the original

Every result goes on the clipping it came from, as a tab: the original, its summary, the rewrite, a screenshot and its text. ↑ and ↓ flip through them in the bezel, and any layer pastes.

Works with what you already use

Plugged into your stack. Not into a cloud.

Connect directly to your tools without creating a Stashcut account. Local models keep AI processing on your Mac; remote providers and optional integrations use the services you choose.

Ollama

Ask your clipboard with a model that never leaves the machine. Stashcut finds your running Ollama and lists its models, no setup.

Built in

1Password

A copied secret can go straight into your vault instead of your history, and a stored one can be pasted from the bezel without ever showing on screen.

Built in

Obsidian

One key sends a clipping into the daily note for the day you copied it, under a heading of its own. Text and pictures. Your vault stays a folder of files.

Built in

Claude Code

One button registers Stashcut's read-only MCP server with Claude's own CLI, shows you the exact command, and verifies it took.

Built in

opencode

Same one-button setup. Your agent can search your history, fetch a clipping or see the newest ones, and never write to it.

Built in

Next up

iCloud sync between your Macs, opt-in and off by default, then an iPhone companion. Any MCP-speaking agent already works today.

Coming

Pricing

€29. Once. Not per month, not per seat, not per question.

Pay once, use it on up to three of your Macs, get every 1.x update. Ask your clipboard uses a model you already run, so Stashcut adds no per-question cost of its own.

Launch price
€29one-time, VAT included

Save €10 at launch. €39 from January 1, 2027.

€29 launch price through (Amsterdam time). €39 afterwards.

  • Clipboard history, search by meaning, the carousel, hotkeys
  • Secret detection, paste guard, 1Password hand-off
  • Ask with citations and five AI actions in persistent stacks
  • Screenshot text recognition, seven themes, code colouring and Obsidian
  • The MCP server and one-button agent setup
  • All 1.x updates, on up to three of your Macs
  • 14-day refund, no questions asked
Buy Stashcut for €29

Requires macOS 10.13 or later. The built-in search model needs macOS 12. Bought it already? Download Stashcut.

No subscription. No account. No per-question fee.

Pay once. Use it on up to three of your Macs. Ask your clipboard through a model you already run, so nothing here meters your questions.

One person makes Stashcut and answers the mail. That is who you are paying.

Ask your clipboard

The thing you copied at 09:41 is the answer. Ask for it.

⇧+⌘+a opens Ask Your Clipboard. Ask in plain language, get an answer with citations back to your clippings. Search by meaning finds the relevant history; your chosen model writes the answer.

› 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 [1]
  2. drop the onboarding workshop [1]
  3. invoice in two parts, 40 / 60 [2]
 
used 2 of 4 related clippings · 1 credential withheld · model: local
 
[1] Mail · proposal changes · 16:12
[2] Mail · payment terms · 09:41

Bring your own brain

Search by meaning can run on the bundled local model. Answers and AI actions use the assistant endpoint you choose: Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp on your Mac, or a remote endpoint if you prefer. The settings tell you whether text stays local. Citations let you check the answer, not just trust it.

Ollama on this MacDetected automatically. Pick a model from the list.
local · recommended
LM Studio or llama.cppStart its local server and pick a loaded model. On this Mac, or one on your network.
you choose

Credentials are excluded before the question is even assembled. The answer says how many were withheld.

For coding agents

Your agent forgot what you pasted. Stashcut did not.

Stashcut ships a tiny read-only Model Context Protocol server. Claude Code, opencode, 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 the exact command, runs that tool's own CLI, checks for a duplicate first and verifies afterwards. It never opens or rewrites your configuration file.

Credential values stay out of agent replies

1Password items are reported only as a count, without their value, reference or title. Other clippings that look like card numbers, bank accounts, keys or bulk email lists keep their position and time, but their text is replaced by a notice saying what was withheld.

$ claude mcp list
  stashcut  ✓ Connected (user)
      /Applications/Stashcut.app/Contents/MacOS/stashcut-mcp
 
› agent: stashcut.search("invoice")
2 clippings · 1 credential withheld

Sixty seconds

See it move.

Copy, carousel, search, a secret kept out, a question answered. Real screen, no cuts.

recording Tell me when it is up

Privacy, the boring kind

Your clipboard is the most private thing on your Mac. We treat it that way.

Three promises, each one checkable by looking at the app.

No account

Buy it, download it, use it. There is nothing to sign in to and nobody to sign in as.

No analytics

No telemetry, no crash reporter that phones home, no "anonymous usage data". Zero.

History stays local

History lives on your Mac. Our services handle licences, updates and downloads, not your clipboard history. Chosen remote AI and configured integrations may send data to their services.

Questions

Asked before you asked

Does it need an internet connection?

History, bundled search by meaning, local secret detection and the agent server work offline. Activation, licence renewal, updates and optional model downloads use the internet. Ask and AI actions use your chosen model endpoint, which can run on this very Mac.

Which AI does it use?

For search, a small model that ships inside Stashcut, or e5-small, an optional download that reads many languages and code. For answers, yours: Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp. Stashcut 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 and runs as a child of the agent you started. 1Password items are counted, without their values, references or titles. Detected sensitive text is withheld with a notice; its position and time may still be returned. Detection is a safeguard, not a guarantee for every possible secret.

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 up to three Macs you personally use. Replace one and the licence moves with you.

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 purchase refunded.

Stop losing what you copied.

Install it before lunch. By the afternoon you will have pasted something you would otherwise have retyped.

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