Locked with Touch ID
Encrypt anything sensitive. It stays blurred until you unlock it, and secrets you mark can expire on their own.
⌘LTouch ID
Everything you copy.One keystroke away.
Press ⌘⇧V in any app, type a few letters, press ↩. Copse pastes it right where you are. Private, native, and yours for $2.99.
macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Apple silicon and Intel · $2.99 once
Live demo. Click in, then try ↑↓, Tab, ⇧Space, ↩, or select a few with ⇧↓ and press ⌘↩.Live demo. Tap an item, then the eye to preview it or the copy button to paste. Try Paste Stack at the bottom.
Pasted items land here, like in the app you were using.
Paste Stack3 left
- Pinned
- 548 Market Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, CA 94104Contacts · Pinned
- Today
- export async function fetchInvoices(customerId: string) {const res = await fetch(`/api/customers/${customerId}/invoices`);Code · 3:24 PM · TypeScript+4 lines
- swift.org/documentationSafari · 3:17 PM · from www.swift.org
- #4B5B92Figma · 3:10 PM · #4B5B92
- Launch checklist for Friday1. Freeze the release branch at noon and tag v2.4.0Notes · 3:03 PM+5 lines
- ScreenshotScreenshot · 2:56 PM · 1440 × 900 · 69 KB
- maya.chen@northwind.studioMail · 2:49 PM
- pnpm --filter web build && wrangler deploy --env productionTerminal · 2:42 PM · Shell
- {"name": "northwind-web", "version": "2.4.0", "scripts": { … }Code · 2:29 PM · JSON+5 lines
- Can you send me the updated deck before 3pm? I want to walk the team through pricing.Slack · 2:26 PM
- SELECT c.name, SUM(i.amount) AS revenueFROM invoices i JOIN customers c ON c.id = i.customer_idCode · 2:08 PM · SQL+4 lines
- No items match.
↑↓ Next item esc Close
- ~15 msto open
- 10,000items searched per keystroke
- ~0%CPU when idle
- ~8 MBapp size
Paste Stack
Queue it up. ⌘V through it.
Filling a form, moving a list, copying from one doc into another? Load a stack, then every ⌘V in any app pastes the next item, in order.
- Build a stackSelect items in the panel and press ⌘↩. Or press ⌃⌘C anywhere, then copy things one after another.
- Paste, paste, pasteEach ⌘V pastes the next item. A small indicator shows what's next and how many are left.
- It tidies upThe stack ends by itself after the last item. Your clipboard is back to normal.
Paste Stack3 left2 left1 leftDone
- Maya Chen
- maya.chen@northwind.studio
- 548 Market Street, San Francisco
⌘V
Keeps everything you copy, sorted by kind
- Text
- Links
- Code
- Images
- Screenshots
- Videos
- Files
- Emails
- Colors
A closer look
Fast to find. Lovely to look at.
Real screenshots of Copse 0.1.0. No mockups.
- 01 · Search
A few letters find anything
Type “invoice” and Copse finds the code, the SQL and the email that mention it, ranked as you type. Tokens like type:link or app:slack narrow it further.
- 02 · Scope
Switch scope with Tab
Everything, text, links, code, images, emails, colors or snippets. The scope strip lives in the search bar, and Tab moves through it.
- 03 · Actions
⌘K for everything else
Paste as plain text, transform, run an AI action, pin, protect or lock with Touch ID. Every action has a shortcut, shown right beside it.
- 04 · Code
Code that reads like your editor
Press ⇧Space for a big preview. Code gets its language, line numbers and highlighting that fits light and dark, plus wrap and one-click copy.
- 05 · Images
Screenshots you can search
Copse reads the text in your screenshots on your Mac, so you can search for it later. In the preview, zoom in and select the text with Live Text.
- 06 · Colors
Every color format, ready to paste
Copy #4B5B92 in Figma and get HEX, RGB, HSL, SwiftUI, NSColor and CSS, each one click away, with contrast ratios.
Features
Small tools. Big time savers.
Everything here ships in Copse 0.1.0.
Paste into forms
Select several items and press ⌃↩. They paste one after another, with Tab between.
⇧↑↓⌃↩
Collections
Group items by hand, or save a search as a smart collection that fills itself.
type:link site:github.com
Snippets
Text you type often, with {date}, {clipboard} and {cursor} filled in for you.
⌘S{cursor}
Transforms and redaction
Change case, pretty-print JSON, decode URLs, or strip emails and keys before you share.
⌘T
Right in the menu bar
Your five latest copies, one click or ⌘1–5 away, with the full history behind them.
⌘1–5
Bring your history
Import from Maccy and Paste, and export everything to an open archive whenever you like.
MaccyPaste
Native, and light
Swift and AppKit, about 8 MB, with about 0% CPU when idle.
Apple siliconIntel
Privacy
Your history stays yours.
A clipboard sees everything: passwords, messages, work in progress. Copse is built so the only place it ever lives is your Mac.
Every connection Copse makes
- License checkWhen you activate, then every week or two. Your key and a one-way hash of your Mac.
- Update checkA signed update feed, fetched by Sparkle. No system profile.
- Link previewsOptional. Fetched straight from the site the link points to.
- AI actionsOnly when you run one, only to the provider you picked. On-device sends nothing.
None of them include anything you copied. Read the policy
No account
Download, open, done. There is nothing to sign up for.
No cloud, no analytics
Your history never leaves your Mac unless you send an item to Copse Cloud AI yourself.
Passwords stay out
Items that password managers mark as concealed or transient are never saved.
Excluded apps
Pick apps whose copies Copse should ignore entirely.
Hidden from screen sharing
The panel stays invisible when you share or record your screen.
Stored locally
History lives in your user Library, on your Mac, and nowhere else.
AI actions
Smart when you want it. Private by default.
Turn anything you copy into what you need: a cleaner paragraph, a translation, a JSON object. Pick where the thinking happens. Two of the three options are included with your license.
- Improve writing
- Fix grammar
- Change tone
- Shorten
- Expand
- Summarize
- Translate
- Explain code
- Extract JSON
- Extract a table
- Draft a reply
Included
On-device
Apple's Foundation Models run right on your Mac. Nothing leaves it, and there's nothing to set up.
Needs macOS 26 or later
Included
Your key or a local model
Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini or OpenRouter, or point Copse at Ollama or LM Studio. Requests go straight from your Mac to the provider you chose.
Optional
Copse Cloud AI
No keys, no setup. Buy credits only if you want them. Only the item you choose is sent, and it isn't logged.
50 free starter credits with every license
Copse Cloud AI credits
250 credits
$2.99
One-time · never expire
Recommended
500 credits
$4.99
One-time · never expire
1,200 credits
$9.99
One-time · never expire
Yearly
$14.99/year
150 credits every month
- 1 credit ≈ one action on up to ~2,000 input tokens (about 8,000 characters). Longer items use a few credits.
- The “Smart” model costs 3× the credits.
- Failed requests are free. Credit packs never expire.
- A daily limit of 200 credits guards against runaway use.
Copse for Chrome
Every copy remembers its page
Copy something in Chrome, Arc, Brave or Edge, and Copse keeps the page's address, title and icon with it. Later, jump straight back to where you found it.
- Works in Chromium browsers: Chrome, Arc, Brave and Edge
- Minimal permissions, and it only talks to Copse on your Mac
- Your Copse license unlocks it, at no extra cost
- Optional: basic source info works even without it
Compare
How Copse stacks up
An honest look at the popular options. Where we're not there yet, we say so.
| Copse | CopyCat | Pastev7 | Maccyv2.7 | Raycastv2 | Spotlight clipboardmacOS 26/27 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 once | $4.99 once (launch price) | $29.99 a year | Free, open source ($9.99 on the App Store) | Free with 3 months of history; Pro $96 a year | Free, built in |
| Runs on | macOS 15+, Apple silicon and Intel | macOS 15+, Apple silicon and Intel | macOS 14+ | macOS 14+ | macOS 26+, Apple silicon only | macOS 26+ |
| How it opens | ⌘⇧V floating palette | ⌘⇧V floating palette | Shelf along the bottom of the screen | Menu bar pop-up | Raycast window | ⌘Space, then ⌘4 |
| History you can keep | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes3 months free, unlimited with Pro | NoUp to 7 days, no pins |
| Shows the source app | YesApp, time and web page | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Skips password-manager items | Yes | Yes | Not documented | Yes | Not documented | Yes |
| Analytics in the app | None | None | No servers; App Store label lists a device ID | None, fully local | The app sends analytics | On-device |
| Search text in images (OCR) | YesOn-device, searchable | No | Yes | Copy text from an image | Yes | No |
| Paste stack | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No |
| Export and import | YesIncluding import from Maccy and Paste | No | No | No | No | No |
| AI actions | YesOn-device, your own key, or optional credits | Not documented | Apple Writing Tools, MCP | No | Cloud “Ask Clipboard” | No |
| Locked items with Touch ID | YesEncrypted on disk | No | Not documented | No | No | No |
| Sync between devices | No, local only by design | No | iCloud (Mac and iOS) | No | No, by design | No |
| Where to get it | Direct download (Homebrew planned) | Direct download | Mac App Store, direct, Setapp | GitHub, Homebrew, Mac App Store | Direct download | Built into macOS |
Compiled in September 2026 from each app's website, documentation, App Store listing and release notes. Apps change quickly; if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
Pricing
One price. Yours for good.
No subscription, no account, no upsell to unlock the basics.
- Every feature, including Paste Stack
- All of your personal Macs
- One key also unlocks Copse for Chrome
- On-device and bring-your-own-key AI included
- 50 free Copse Cloud AI credits
- Signed, automatic updates
- macOS 15 Sequoia or later, Apple silicon and Intel
Why isn't Copse on the Mac App Store?
Because the App Store sandbox doesn't allow an app to paste into other apps, and pasting back into the app you were in is the whole point of Copse. So Copse is sold directly, like many of the Mac's best utilities.
How do I know the download is safe?
Copse is signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper checks it before it first opens. Updates come through Sparkle and are cryptographically signed; Copse refuses an update whose signature doesn't match. To check it yourself, run spctl --assess --verbose /Applications/Copse.app in Terminal. It should say accepted, source=Notarized Developer ID.
What happens to my clipboard data?
It stays on your Mac, in your user Library. Copse has no account, no cloud and no analytics, and your clipboard content never leaves your Mac unless you choose to run a Copse Cloud AI action on an item. Delete an item, or clear your history, and it's gone. The privacy policy lists every network request Copse makes.
Will Copse save my passwords?
No. Password managers mark what they copy as concealed or transient, and Copse never captures those items. You can also exclude any app so nothing copied in it is kept, and the Copse palette is hidden from screen sharing and recordings.
Can I use one license on several Macs?
Yes. One $2.99 license covers all of your personal Macs, and the same key unlocks Copse for Chrome.
Is there a free trial? How do refunds work?
Instead of a trial there's a 7-day, no-questions refund. If Copse isn't for you, email copse@mayankbuilds.com within 7 days of buying and you'll get your money back.
Is it really a one-time price?
Yes: $2.99 once, for a lifetime license. The only optional extra is Copse Cloud AI credits, and you never need them. On-device AI and bring-your-own-key AI are included with the license.
Which Macs does it run on?
macOS 15 Sequoia or later, on Apple silicon and Intel Macs. On-device AI needs macOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence available.
Why does Copse ask for Accessibility access?
So that ↩ can paste straight into the app you were using. macOS requires Accessibility permission for that. If you'd rather not grant it, Copse still copies the item for you and you press ⌘V yourself.
Do I need Copse for Chrome?
No. Copse shows the source app and time for every item on its own, and Chromium browsers already include basic page info when you copy. Copse for Chrome adds the page title and icon, and a “jump back to source” button.
Can I install it with Homebrew?
It's planned. Once it's available: brew install --cask copse.
Never lose a copy again.
Copy freely. Copse brings it back.
$2.99 once · macOS 15 Sequoia or later · Apple silicon and Intel