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Clypy vs Paste: it comes down to your desk

Paste is one of the best-looking clipboard managers ever made, and if every device you own has an Apple logo on it, that may be the end of the discussion. Clypy is for the rest of us, whose desk has a MacBook and a Windows tower on it.

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Which fits your desk?

Tick every device you copy and paste on.

PasteFits

Covers every device you picked.

ClypyFits

Covers every device you picked.

All Apple: both fit, and both can be paid for once. Paste is the more refined pick; Clypy if you want clips end-to-end encrypted.

Credit where it's due: Paste

Paste is genuinely excellent

Its pinboard interface set the bar for what a clipboard manager could look like, the iCloud sync is effortless inside the Apple ecosystem, its search reaches the text inside screenshots and photos, and it has been shipped and supported for years. If you are all-Apple, Paste is a completely reasonable choice, by subscription or bought once, and we would not try to talk you out of it.
Platforms

The mixed desk is the whole point

Paste syncs through iCloud, which is what makes it so smooth on Apple hardware and also what caps it there. If you copy something on a Windows machine at work and want it on your iPhone, that is not a gap Paste is trying to fill. Clypy runs on all five platforms and treats a Windows-to-iPhone copy as the ordinary case.
macOS
iPhone
iPad
Windows
Linux
Android
Paste
Apple devices, via iCloud
Clypy
Every device, end-to-end encrypted
A Clypy clip in transit
  1. Your Macencrypted here
  2. Network & relayciphertext only
  3. Your PCdecrypted here

Keys are generated on your devices and never leave them. On the same network, the relay isn't in the path at all.

Encryption

Your clips are encrypted before they leave

Clypy encrypts each clip on the device that copied it, so what passes through sync is ciphertext we cannot read. Nothing about your history is legible to us, which is a different guarantee from trusting a provider's policy about what it does with data it can read.
Pricing

Both can be paid for once

Clypy Pro is $29.99 one time, on as many of your own devices as you like, with no renewal. Paste is sold by the month or the year, or once as a Lifetime purchase that covers Mac, iPhone and iPad, so a subscription is no longer the only way to own it. Clypy's free plan keeps unlimited local history with no account at all.
Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5
Clypy Pro$29.99nothing duenothing duenothing duenothing due
Paste yearlyrenewsrenewsrenewsrenewsrenews
Paste Lifetimeoncenothing duenothing duenothing duenothing due

Paste's price changes from time to time, so check pasteapp.io for today's. Clypy prices are plus any tax due where you live.

Side by side

Clypy vs Paste, line by line

FeatureClypyPaste
macOS
iOS & iPadOS
Windows—
Linux—
Android—
Sync transportEnd-to-end encrypted, LAN or relayiCloud
Works with no accountApple Account to sync
Search by meaningSemantic, on-deviceText match
OCR on screenshots
Pricing modelOne-time or freeSubscription or Lifetime
The honest answer

Which one should you use?

Stay with Paste if

Every device you use is made by Apple and you want the most refined interface in the category.

Paste's site
Choose Clypy if

You mix Apple with Windows, Linux or Android, or you want clips end-to-end encrypted rather than readable by a provider.

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Questions

What Paste users ask

Can Clypy import my Paste history?

Not directly today. Clypy starts capturing from the moment you install it, and Paste's library stays where it is, so you can run both during a transition without losing anything.

Is Clypy as polished as Paste?

Paste has a multi-year head start on interface refinement and we would not pretend otherwise. Clypy's bet is on reach and privacy: five platforms, encrypted sync, on-device search. If interface polish is your single deciding factor, try both.

Does Clypy need an account?

Clypy's free tier needs no identity. Pro purchase and cross-platform recovery use a verified email with no password or public profile.

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