Clip Paste is a small utility app for Finder on macOS. It allows to paste images and text as images/text files in finder.
The app’s only user interface is the settings panel shown above.
When you try to paste something that is not a file or a folder in Finder, nothing happens.
When the app detects text or an image in the clipboard and you paste into Finder, it automatically creates:
- an image file, or
- a text file
directly in the folder where you attempted to paste.
You can configure Clip Paste to match your workflow:
- Enable or disable image and text file creation
- Customize filename templates
- Choose a default save location when the shortcut is triggered outside Finder
- Choose which keyboard shortcut activates the action
- macOS 14.6 or newer
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Go to the latest release:
https://github.com/EllandeVED/Clip-Paste/releases/latest -
Download the
.zipfile from the Releases page. -
Open the app. On first launch, macOS will show a security warning
(the app is not signed with a registered Apple Developer ID):
- Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway:
- (Optional but recommended) Move the app to your Applications folder.
The app is now ready to use.
- Updates are handled inside the app
- For automatic updates to work reliably, the app must be located in the Applications folder
- Custom locations for the default save folder
- Support for more image formats
- Support for more text formats (including formatting)
- A hide Dock icon option
- A check-for-updates enable/disable option
- An optional menu bar icon
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
Copyright (c) 2025 EllandeVED