Claude Desktop connects to Pastea in one click: a Pastea extension installs from Settings or from Claude's own directory, and Pastea asks you before it hands over access.

Claude Desktop

• Settings → MCP & AI Tools → Claude Desktop now opens Claude Desktop with the Pastea extension ready to install — no config file, no Node, no token to paste. The same extension is submitted to Claude Desktop's extension directory, where it updates itself.
• The first time Claude uses the extension, Pastea shows “Allow Claude Desktop to use your clipboard history?” and grants access only when you click Allow. The connection appears under Connected AI Tools, where Revoke works as it always has; Pastea asks again only if you ask Claude to reconnect.
• When Pastea is not running, not licensed, or not yet allowed, Claude gets a single pastea_status tool that says exactly what to do instead of a broken server.

MCP

• A new Learn more button on the MCP & AI Tools page opens the setup guide for every supported tool at pastea.app/help/mcp.

Step through your clips without leaving the preview: the Up and Down arrow keys now move the preview window from one clip to the next.

Preview

• With a clip preview open, press ↓ or ↑ to preview the clip below or above it in the panel. The panel highlights the clip you are looking at, and the window resizes to fit each one — text, code, pictures, files and links alike.
• The arrows work in both places: press them in the preview window itself, or in the panel while a preview is open and the preview follows your selection, the way Quick Look follows a Finder selection.
• While you are editing a clip, the arrow keys keep moving the cursor in the editor — nothing changes under your hands.

Pastea can now take you back to where a clip came from, and saved-screenshot capture is easier to trust and fix.

Open the source

• When a source app exposes enough context, Pastea remembers the page, document, or file a clip came from. Right-click the clip and choose Open Origin to return there. A multi-selection can open every distinct origin at once.
• File copies keep their exact paths. Browser and document copies can keep the current URL, title, and selected-text position when macOS Accessibility makes them available. Origin capture is best-effort, never delays clipboard capture, and refuses unsafe URL schemes.

Saved screenshots

• Settings → Privacy now shows the screenshots folder Pastea is watching and whether it can currently read it, with direct actions to choose another folder or repair macOS access.
• Saved screenshots are recognized reliably across macOS languages without depending on Spotlight, and partially written image files are retried instead of being silently lost.
• Pastea follows the folder configured in macOS by default, supports a folder you choose, and explains when screenshot capture is disabled by an ignored-content rule.

Pastea Pro's lifetime licence now costs $49.99, and the launch offer brings it to $37.49 for the first 50 customers.

Pricing

• The lifetime licence is now $49.99, down from $89.99. It is still a single payment that never expires and covers every Mac you own.
• The launch offer continues: the first 50 customers get 25% off, so $37.49 at checkout, applied automatically. The paywall shows the new prices.

A small update to how Pastea's optional analytics describe a Mac — more useful to us for support and compatibility, and still nothing that identifies you.

Privacy & analytics

• Anonymous usage analytics now group events under a random install ID that Pastea makes up on first launch. It is not derived from your hardware or your Apple Account, it lets us tell one busy install from many quiet ones, and erasing Pastea's data replaces it. Crash reports carry the same ID, so a crash can be matched to the install it came from.
• Analytics also report a few more facts about the Mac — the macOS build number, the chip, the keyboard layout and where Pastea is installed, each as a category — plus which optional features are switched on. Never your name, your computer's name, file paths or clipboard content. The privacy policy lists every item.
• If you have activated a licence, analytics record the customer number our payment provider assigned to your purchase, so a support request about a licence can be connected to the right install. Your name and email stay with the payment provider.
• As always, the switch is in Settings → Privacy → Anonymous usage analytics.

Pastea Pro is now a single lifetime licence — one payment, no subscription — with 25% off for the first 50 customers.

Pricing

• The monthly and yearly subscriptions are retired. Pastea Pro is a one-time purchase: $89.99 for a lifetime licence that never expires and covers every Mac you own.
• Launch offer: the first 50 customers pay $67.49. The discount is applied automatically at checkout, and the paywall says so.
• The paywall shows the one plan on offer instead of a picker. Older versions that still list three plans send you to the same lifetime checkout.

Your first launch now ends with the panel already open — and a short demo of the shortcuts that bring it back.

First launch

• When onboarding finishes, the panel opens on its own wearing a card that teaches the two shortcuts that matter: ⇧⌘V for the panel and ⇧⌘Space for Quick View. The keys shown are your actual bindings, so the card stays right if you re-record them in Settings.
• The card knows when the lesson lands. The first time you summon the panel with its own shortcut, it congratulates you and retires for good — or close it yourself with one click.
• Run in background is now on by default for new installs. You still confirm it on the setup step, and the login item is registered only when you do — existing installs keep whatever they chose.

Starter tips

• The starter cards in an empty history now link to real pages — the how-to guide and the help & FAQ on pastea.app. The QR code on the help card genuinely opens the help on your phone now.

Quick View is redesigned. The palette you open beside the cursor is wider, easier to read at a glance, and now filters by type, app, date and list.

Quick View

• A new layout: a search field and a filter button across the top, your clips in the middle, and the keyboard shortcuts along the bottom so you never have to guess what Return does.
• Each clip now shows the app it came from and when you copied it on one line, and the clip itself on the next — pictures and colours show their size and hex code instead.
• Filter by type, app, date or list from the button beside the search field. Everything you apply appears as a chip you can click to remove.
• Tab still steps through clip types, and Esc now steps back one thing at a time — first your search, then your filters, then the window.
• Pinned clips are listed first, so a clip you pinned weeks ago is still there after a busy day of copying.

Buying Pastea Pro now works. 1.0.0 shipped pointing at a test catalog, so a licence key bought against it would not have unlocked the app.

Purchases

• Pastea Pro is live. Monthly, yearly and lifetime plans all check out against the real store.
• Licence keys from a purchase now activate. In 1.0.0 the app checked keys against a test catalog and would have refused a real one as belonging to a different product.

Pastea 1.0 is the first public release — a clipboard manager for Mac that remembers everything you copy.

Clipboard history

• Pastea saves text, code, links, images, screenshots, files and colours as you copy them, organised by type, app and time.
• Search is word-aware and ranks stronger matches first. A query can match across clip content, title and source app.
• Pin the clips you need often, or file them into lists with their own emoji.
• Mark a list to collect, and every new copy is filed into it instead of the history until you stop — no filing afterwards. A bar above your clips names the list the whole time, so you always know where copies are going.

Paste without leaving your work

• Press ⇧⌘Space to open Quick View beside the text cursor. Search, move through results with the arrow keys and paste without leaving the app you are in.
• Press ⇧⌘V for the full panel, or click the menu-bar icon. Return pastes the selection; ⌘↩ pastes as plain text.
• When Accessibility access is granted, Pastea pastes straight into the app you were using. If it is not, the clip is copied and you paste with ⌘V.

Privacy

• History lives on your Mac. iCloud sync is off until you turn it on.
• Passwords and other concealed clips stay out of casual surfaces. You can ignore apps or clip types so they are never captured.
• Text in pictures is read on the device. Link previews are the only clipboard content that can leave the Mac, and one-time sign-in links are never fetched.

Also in 1.0

• Inline shortcuts expand a named clip as you type, in any app.
• Type `;` followed by a name you assigned, and the clip pastes in place.
• Updates check in the background. When one is ready, the menu-bar icon shows a mark and the panel offers the new version — nothing installs until you choose it, or until Pastea quits.
• Settings can erase the whole history in one step. Lists and other settings stay.