Your clipboard learned to answer.
Until now PasteMate remembered things. In 1.2 it can also tell you about them — ask a screenshot what went wrong, ask a Figma frame for feedback, ask a paragraph to say it shorter. Everything else in this release is about the copies themselves getting more honest: design work comes back editable, screenshots become searchable, and the things you never meant to keep can be turned away at the door.
7 new things. 4 of them in the free app.
Ask your clips anything
Chat With Your Clips
Ask about text, screenshots, and design frames — right where they live, with the AI you set up in Intelligence.
Following up on last week's thread — I've attached the revised deck, though the numbers on slide 4 are still the old ones so please ignore those. Could you send over the Q3 figures before Thursday? Also, we're moving standup to 9:45 from Monday. Let me know if that clashes with anything on your side.
Copies that stay real
Design Assets
Copy in Figma, Sketch, Illustrator or Affinity, paste back tomorrow — still the real thing, preview and all.
- Background
- Card
- Shapes
- Type
On the clipboard
- The design payload, untouched
- A preview, so you can see what it is
Copied today. One frame, flat as a picture.
Ten keys
Quick Paste
⌃⌘1 through ⌃⌘0 paste your ten most recent clips — from any app, no window.
Hold ⌃ ⌘ and press a digit. This page is listening — or click a slot.
Ten formats, live
Pick Any Color on Screen
⌃⌘P points macOS's own loupe at anything on screen, and the color comes back as hex, a SwiftUI Color, a CSS variable, or seven other formats.
Words inside pictures
Search Inside Images
macOS reads the text in your copied images — on this Mac, never off it — so search finds the words inside.
The reading happens on your Mac. No image is uploaded, and no service is involved.
macOS reads the text in the image. On this Mac.
What you don't keep
Capture Control
Pause capture when you're handling something sensitive — or have PasteMate skip keys, tokens, and card numbers for you, in Settings → Exclusions.
Copy something ordinary. It lands in history.
Yours to move
Every Shortcut, Yours
Settings → Shortcuts shows every key PasteMate answers to — and lets you move the ones you'd rather have somewhere else.
Settings → Shortcuts
- Quick Paste, slot 1⌃⌘1
- Intelligence⌘I
- Pick a color⌃⌘P
- Jump to first tag⌘1
Every key PasteMate answers to, in one list — and every one of them movable.
Chat With Your Clips, Pick Any Color on Screen and Search Inside Images are part of the full PasteMate — $9.99, once. See pricing
The free tier keeps your 5 most recent clips, forever.
Share just one
- Chat With Your ClipsFull version
- Design Assets
- Quick Paste
- Pick Any Color on ScreenFull version
- Search Inside ImagesFull version
- Capture Control
- Every Shortcut, Yours