PasteNote
Clipboard history, temporary cards, and Notes for Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1249046
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- PasteNote
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Mac, Productivity, Menu Bar Apps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 15, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
PasteNote is a local-first clipboard manager for macOS. Search copied text, images, and files, pin anything above your work, keep temporary snippets in Handy, and save only what matters as a Note. No account, cloud sync, analytics, or subscription.
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and macOS productivity utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- clipboard manager and note-taking tool for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Although the UI can be scaffolded, building a reliable, low-overhead native macOS clipboard monitor with floating windows and permission handling requires native Swift/AppKit engineering.
What it would actually take: A production version requires native Swift/Objective-C using AppKit, NSPasteboard polling/events, and Accessibility APIs for context detection and window management. The challenging aspects include correctly handling diverse clipboard data types (text, rich text, multiple images, file promises, masked password managers) without memory leaks, managing floating panels (NSPanel) over full-screen apps, and building local SQLite full-text search. This requires deep familiarity with macOS system APIs and platform life cycles.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 342 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #206 of 343 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 291 days after the earliest competitor.
- CopyPal · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Paste 7 · ph · 2026-09-29 · 173 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- ClipKeep · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- SupaClip · ph · 2026-09-30 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Pastely · ph · 2026-09-22 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Cliptray · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Sideme · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- PeekPaste · ph · 2026-09-15 · 114 upvotes · similarity 0.58
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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