Question 1

What is Pastry?

Accepted Answer

Pastry is a free clipboard history app for macOS. It lives in the menu bar, keeps the text, rich text, images and file references you copy, and brings them back with ⇧⌘V and a fuzzy search.

Question 2

Does Pastry need Accessibility permission?

Accepted Answer

No. Pastry puts the item back on your clipboard and you press ⌘V yourself, so it never asks for Accessibility or Input Monitoring.

Question 3

Where is my clipboard history stored?

Accepted Answer

Only on your Mac, in a local SQLite database. Pastry has no account, no sync and no network code. The history is not encrypted on disk.

Question 4

Does Pastry save passwords I copy?

Accepted Answer

By default it skips anything a password manager marks as concealed or transient. Unmarked secrets can still be captured, so you can delete any entry or clear everything.

Question 5

Can Pastry search text inside screenshots?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Images get on-device text recognition, so text in a copied screenshot is searchable.

Question 6

What does Pastry cost?

Accepted Answer

Nothing. It is free, and the download is signed and notarized by Apple.

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