PasteDaemon
Pricing

macOS menu bar · version 1.0.0

Whatever you need is already in your clipboard.

That URL? Stripped of tracking parameters. Raw JSON without newlines? Automatically pretty-printed. Something you copied last week. The clipboard item you need is a single shortcut away.

Opens with C

The search bar

Type a pipeline, watch it resolve

$1 is your last copy, $2 the one before it. Filters are your own actions, by name. This demo runs the real substitutions.

Source — what you copied
Filters — click to add or remove, in order
Destination

History

Every copy, text only. Pasteboard items marked concealed — the convention password managers use — never enter it. 200 items by default, and each one remembers its last 20 values.

Actions

A named transformation: a regex substitution, or a shell script that takes the text on stdin and hands back its output. Run one from the overlay, the menu bar, or a pipeline.

Triggers

Conditions that run the moment you copy. First match wins and runs its actions in order — copy a ticket number, get a link, without reaching for anything.

Variables

Named values that keep their own history. Use them in patterns, in scripts as $PD_VAR_name, or paste them from the overlay, which makes them double as snippets.

The small print, up front

It runs on your Mac and stays there.

  • No account, no sync, no telemetryYour clipboard never leaves the machine. The only network request the app can make is an update check, against a feed you configure.
  • macOS 14 or later, Apple siliconA menu bar app with no Dock icon. It sits in the background and answers the shortcut.
  • Signed with a Developer ID certificateGatekeeper opens it without a detour through System Settings.
  • Accessibility permission is optionalmacOS only asks for it if you turn on automatic pasting, which presses ⌘V for you. Everything else works without it.

Pricing

Try the whole thing. Pay if it sticks.

Trial

Free · no time limit

The complete app with nothing switched off and nothing counting down. Use it as long as you like. If it earns a place in your muscle memory, buy a licence.