Paste Alternative: Stop Subscribing to Your Clipboard
Paste is polished — and it bills you every year for the privilege of remembering what you copied. Notchy keeps your clipboard history in the notch with pins, smart actions, and password-manager safety, for a one-time price of nothing. No account, no sync upsell, no renewal email.
Why use Notchy instead of Paste?
- $0 vs a yearly subscription
A clipboard manager is core workflow plumbing — it shouldn't be a recurring bill. Notchy is free forever, funded only by optional donations.
- Local and private by design
Your clipboard never leaves your Mac. No cloud sync of your copied passwords-adjacent data, no account, no telemetry — and concealed copies from password managers are never recorded.
- A suite, not a single app
The same free app adds a file shelf with zip/unzip, Now Playing with lyrics, Pomodoro stats, HUD replacement, and AI usage tracking.
At a glance
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Command palette (⌃⌥K) — every action one keystroke away
- Knock — double-tap a modifier key to open the notch
- AI usage tracker (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot)
- Detach any tab into a menu-bar popover
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch — streaks + 7-day chart
- Resizable expanded panel (width & height, live preview)
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon