Supaste Review (2026): Pricing, Features & Honest Verdict

TLDR

Supaste is a local-first clipboard and screenshot history manager for Mac that saves everything you copy into a searchable visual timeline, with OCR on images and zero cloud involvement. It is good and cheap, but free rivals are close behind. Best for: privacy-conscious Mac users who copy and paste all day. Price: $15 one-time (early offer), no free plan. Rating: 6.4/10.

What is Supaste?

Supaste (supaste.com) answers a question every Mac user has asked at least once: where did that thing I copied an hour ago go? The app records your clipboard history, including text, links, images, files, code snippets, colors, and screenshots, and lays it out as a visual timeline you can scroll, search, and filter. Press a shortcut, find the clip, paste it back anywhere. Screenshots get OCR, so the error message in that PNG you grabbed yesterday is searchable by its text.

It is built by indie developer Solt Wagner and launched recently on Product Hunt, where the local-first angle drew most of the attention. Everything stays on your Mac: no cloud sync, no account, no analytics. That is not a small detail for a clipboard tool, because clipboard history is one of the most sensitive data streams on your computer; it routinely contains passwords, API keys, customer emails, and unreleased work. Supaste requires macOS Sonoma 14.0 or later and sells for a one-time price, currently $15 on an early-user offer against a regular $29, with all updates included.

What Are Supaste’s Key Features?

Visual timeline instead of a text list

Most clipboard managers present history as a long plain-text list, which falls apart the moment images and files enter the mix. Supaste’s timeline shows each clip visually, grouped chronologically, and lets you filter by source app or content type. Looking for the color you copied from Figma this morning or the screenshot from yesterday’s standup is a scroll-and-spot job, not a search expedition. You can also organize clips into custom categories for things you reuse constantly.

OCR on screenshots and images

Supaste runs text recognition on screenshots and images in your history, which quietly fixes a real workflow gap: the information trapped in pictures. Error dialogs, slides from a call, a whiteboard photo, all become searchable and the text becomes copyable. Pairing screenshot history with clipboard history in one timeline is the app’s smartest structural decision, since the two streams are halves of the same problem.

Quick paste, multi-clip copy, and inline shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts paste your most recent clips instantly without opening the main window, and multi-clip copy lets you gather several items and paste them in sequence, which is genuinely useful for filling forms or assembling a document from scattered pieces. Inline shortcuts insert saved snippets fast, drag-and-drop moves any clip into another app, and clip reminders can resurface an item at a time you choose, a small feature we have not seen elsewhere in this category.

The reminders deserve a sentence more, because they hint at where Supaste is headed. Copy a tracking number, a discount code, or an address, set a reminder, and the clip resurfaces exactly when you need it instead of drowning in history. It turns the clipboard from a passive log into a lightweight inbox, which no free competitor attempts.

Local-first privacy with sensitive content detection

Nothing leaves your machine: no sync service, no telemetry, no account. Supaste also detects sensitive content like passwords so credentials are handled carefully rather than parked in plain view of anyone glancing at your timeline. The trade-off is deliberate and total: there is no iPhone companion and no syncing between Macs. If you want your clipboard following you across devices, this is the wrong app, and the developer is clearly fine with that.

How Much Does Supaste Cost?

Supaste costs $15 as a one-time purchase under the current early-user offer, with the regular price listed at $29. Either way it is a lifetime license with all updates included and no subscription. There is no free trial, which is our biggest complaint: you pay before you ever open the app, softened only by the low price.

The competitive math is interesting. Paste, the category’s polished incumbent, charges $14.99 per year (or $1.99/mo), so Supaste’s early price equals one year of Paste and then is free forever. Maccy is free and open source. Raycast bundles capable clipboard history into its free launcher. CleanShot X, which owns the screenshot side of Supaste’s pitch, costs $29 one-time. Supaste at $15 sits in the gap: paid, but barely, and cheaper over any multi-year horizon than every subscription rival.

Whether the $14 saving over the regular $29 lasts is unknowable; early-bird pricing on indie apps usually expires without warning. At either price the absolute risk is small, but the no-trial policy means your purchase is the trial.

It is also worth being clear about what the one-time price buys long term. The developer promises all updates included, but a $15 lifetime license from a solo developer is a thinner sustainability story than Paste’s recurring revenue. We do not hold that against the price, we hold it against expectations: buy Supaste for what it does today, not for a roadmap.

Who is Supaste Best For?

The developer pitches Supaste at designers, developers, content and marketing people, sales and support teams, and founders, which is another way of saying anyone who works in many apps at once. We would narrow it: the people who get the most from it are those whose clipboard mixes formats, text plus screenshots plus files plus colors, because that is exactly where the free list-style managers fall over.

Use Supaste if:

• You copy and paste constantly, like developers, designers, writers, and support or sales people working across apps
• Your clipboard regularly holds sensitive material and you want a tool with no cloud anywhere in the architecture
• You want screenshots and clipboard in one searchable timeline, with OCR doing the indexing
• You are allergic to subscriptions and fine paying $15 once

Skip Supaste if:

• You need clipboard sync to an iPhone, iPad, or second Mac; Paste does that, Supaste never will by design
• You only need basic text history, which Maccy and Raycast give you free
• You refuse to buy software without a trial
• You are on macOS 13 or older, since Supaste requires Sonoma 14.0+

Best Supaste Alternatives

Paste

Paste (pasteapp.io) is the prettiest and most established clipboard manager on the Mac, with a visual board, pinboards for saved snippets, and iCloud sync across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It costs $1.99/mo or $14.99/year with a 14-day trial, and a family plan at $19.99/year. The sync is the reason to pick it over Supaste, and the subscription plus cloud architecture are the reasons not to: over three years you will pay triple Supaste’s early price for features you may not need.

Maccy

Maccy is the minimalist’s answer: a free, open source clipboard manager that lives in your menu bar and recalls history through a tiny search popup. It is keyboard-fast, completely local, and the code is publicly auditable on GitHub. What it lacks is everything visual: no timeline, no screenshot handling, no OCR, no categories. If your clipboard is mostly text and you want maximum trust for zero dollars, Maccy is unbeatable.

Raycast

Raycast, the launcher many Mac power users already run, includes clipboard history free: searchable text, images, links, and colors a hotkey away. If Raycast is already on your Mac, you may not need a dedicated clipboard app at all. You give up Supaste’s visual timeline, OCR search, reminders, and screenshot organization, and clipboard is one feature inside a much bigger tool, but free and already-installed is a hard combination to beat.

Final Verdict: Is Supaste Worth It?

We tested Supaste against the tools most Mac users would actually weigh it against, and the verdict depends entirely on which features you will use. The visual timeline with OCR is the real product: clipboard and screenshot history merged into one searchable stream, all of it staying on your machine. That combination does not exist in Maccy or Raycast, and Paste only gets partway there while charging yearly and syncing through the cloud. The privacy posture is the most coherent we have seen in this category.

The 6.4/10 reflects honest context: this is a young app from a solo developer, there is no trial, and the free competition is genuinely good for basic use. But $15 once is close to riskless, and if the early price has lapsed, $29 is still fair. Our recommendation: if you handle sensitive material and live in screenshots, buy it at the early price. If your needs are plain text history, install Maccy free and keep your $15.