PastePal Clipboard Manager For MacOS 2022 REVIEW — MacSources

PastePal is an all-star clipboard manager in a sea of mediocrity.

In 2015, I was introduced to a couple of macOS utility apps that helped me to manage my clipboard. They were the first apps to do this, and for the longest time, they were the only two clipboard managers in the App Store. Now, one of them is no longer available, and the other has changed its licensing to a subscription-based model. Because I detest subscriptions, I decided to search for a new option.

One night I spent about 5 hours researching options that were available in the App Store. What I found was a multitude of clipboard utilities that were not being updated regularly (some not in years), had sub-par user interfaces, were lacking features, and/or missing the mobile companion app options. I felt as though I would never find an app that was functional, had a great design, a rich feature set, and mobile counterparts.

During my research, I installed nearly a dozen apps and was about to settle for an open-source app called Maccy. It seems like a decent app, but it didn’t quite check off all my requirement…