Stowpad
Stowpad is a clipboard manager for Mac. It remembers everything you copy, so you can paste it back into any app whenever you need it. Text, code, colours, formulas, images and tables. Everything stays on your Mac.
How it works
Stowpad saves each clip in the background. Keep using ⌘C in any app, just as you do now.
Your history stays on this Mac, encrypted and searchable. Every clip keeps its type, its source app and its formatting.
Open Stowpad over the app you are using, choose a clip and paste it back, even days or weeks later.
Select a region and Stowpad reads it locally. Tables keep their rows and columns.
Search the words, filter by app, type or date, or just ask a question.
Code keeps its indentation, formulas render as maths, colours become swatches.
Clipboard history, screenshots, OCR and intelligence stay on your Mac. DOI lookup connects to doi.org only when you explicitly choose Look Up.
Copy text, code, colours, formulas, images or tables from anywhere. Stowpad keeps it organised, searchable and ready to paste. Your clipboard stays on your Mac.
Clipboard management
Pin what matters, group clips into collections you name and colour, add tags in batches, and paste without leaving the app you are working in. Rules can file new clips as they arrive, and deleting a label never deletes the clips attached to it.
OCR & table capture
Press ⌘⌃⇧T, select any region of your screen, and Stowpad turns it into editable text locally. Indentation reconstruction preserves code and nested lists instead of flattening their structure.
Tables keep their shape. Vision recognises rows and columns, then lets you review and copy them as Markdown, CSV, TSV, LaTeX or Booktabs, all on device.
Colour picker
Press ⌘⌃⇧P and click any pixel in an app, photo or video still. Stowpad copies the sRGB value and keeps it as a colour, ready to paste in any of these formats.
Stowpad processes the screen sample locally and keeps only the sRGB value.
Search that understands context
Search the words you remember, ask a question, or narrow the whole history by date, source app, content type and label. Press Return to ask a question of the clips already found; the answer is written on this Mac and cites its sources.
type:code from:Safarilabel:Work todayWhat was James' email?
The right format for every clip
Formulas render as maths. Colour values become swatches. Code keeps its indentation. Tables retain their structure. References keep their identifier. Every type stays visually distinct without making ordinary text feel busy.
Local tools
Smart search understands plain language. Writing tools use the Apple Intelligence model on your Mac. Conversions run locally as ordinary code.
Format JSON, XML and tables. Decode Base64 and URLs. Manage colour palettes in hex, RGB, CSS and more. Format citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver, BibTeX, BibLaTeX or RIS. These conversions run locally as ordinary code.
Summarise, clean formatting, extract tasks, make concise or formal, fix grammar, explain code, suggest a title. These use the Apple Intelligence model on your Mac.
Suggested and Related clips explain why they surfaced, and organisation proposals stay as proposals. Nothing is saved until you copy, save or apply it.
Privacy
Stowpad treats anything you copy as potentially sensitive.
Saved history, attachments and local smart metadata are encrypted with a key held in your login Keychain.
Copies from apps you choose are redacted and require Touch ID or your Mac password before paste.
OCR, table recognition, search and Apple Intelligence run on your Mac.
Generated text and suggested labels remain previews until you explicitly copy, save or apply them.
Free and Pro
Stowpad is fully usable without a subscription. Pro is available as monthly and yearly auto-renewable App Store subscriptions, each with the same features and a 14-day introductory trial.
$0 forever
The essentials for a short clipboard history.
A$29.99 per year
A$3.99 per month
Unlimited history and the complete set of local tools.
Pro: 14-day free trial · No account required
Before you install
Stowpad is a clipboard manager for macOS. macOS keeps only the last thing you copied; Stowpad keeps a searchable, encrypted history of all of it on your own Mac, and lets you paste any earlier clip back into any app with ⌘⌃⇧V.
Yes, with a limit. The free tier keeps the newest 30 clips usable and includes keyword and structured search, rich previews, three pins, screen text capture and the colour picker. Pro removes the limit and adds table capture, collections, tags, rules, conversions, writing actions and citations, at A$29.99 a year or A$3.99 a month with a 14-day trial.
No. Clipboard contents stay on your Mac. History is encrypted with a key in your login Keychain, search and OCR run locally, and generative features use Apple Intelligence on device. Stowpad has no account or sync service.
No. Clipboard history stays on the Mac where you copied it. Cross-device sync is on the roadmap and would be optional.
macOS 26 or later on Apple silicon or Intel. Writing tools and other Apple Intelligence features need a supported Mac. History, search, OCR, table capture and the colour picker work without Apple Intelligence.
Yes. Mark the app as protected and its clips are redacted in the interface, require Touch ID or your Mac password before they can be pasted or read, and are excluded from search indexes, suggestions and every model request.
Stowpad for Mac
Get Stowpad on the Mac App Store. Free includes the newest 30 clips, keyword search and rich previews. Pro adds unlimited history and the local tools on this page. Pro includes a 14-day trial and needs no account.
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