Price terms as published

Each line is the vendor’s own wording, split from the price capture checked on 2026-09-17. Nothing here is rounded, converted or re-worded — the full sentences stay in the review below. Lines that carry only a price continue the plan named on the line above, in the vendor’s own order.

5 price terms for Pastea
#Plan / termChecked
1Lifetime only2026-09-17
2Regular $29.992026-09-17
3launch offer $22.49 for the first 50 customers (37 left)2026-09-17
47-day free trial, no card2026-09-17
5No subscription, no free tier, no sync billing2026-09-17

One-liner: Pastea is a native macOS clipboard manager that quietly saves everything you copy — text, links, code, images, screenshots — then lets you search it, pin it, extract text out of the images, and paste it back at your cursor without switching windows. It launched on Product Hunt in September 2026 and sells as a one-time purchase: $29.99 for a lifetime, or $22.49 while the first-50-customers launch offer lasts. No subscription, nothing to renew. Pricing and every number below were checked against the official site and two third-party launch trackers on 2026-09-13; price re-verified on the official site 2026-09-17 (launch counter still 13/50).

Verified facts (gathered 2026-09-13, price re-verified 2026-09-17)

Attribute Value Source
What it is Native macOS clipboard history manager: saves every copy, search, pin, reuse Official pastea.app
Capture scope Text, links, code blocks, images, and full screenshots, auto-saved on copy Official pastea.app
Auto-organizing Every clip sorted by type, app, and time with no manual organizing Official pastea.app
Search By content, type, app, or even character count, across months of history Official pastea.app
OCR / text extraction Turns text inside images and screenshots into editable, searchable text Official pastea.app
Organizing Pin favorites, group into lists, inline shortcuts for favorite clips Official pastea.app
Quick paste Opens at your cursor, pastes without switching windows Official pastea.app
AI features Rewrite, polish, or translate any copied text without leaving the workflow Official pastea.app
MCP integration Connects to supported AI tools (Claude, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf) over a private local endpoint. Tools can search, read, and copy clips — they cannot delete, and concealed items are never shared Official pastea.app
Privacy model History stays on your Mac, nothing sent to their servers. Password-manager items marked concealed and excludable. Only network touch is fetching a title and image for a copied link (disable-able); one-time links like sign-in or password-reset URLs are never fetched Official pastea.app FAQ
Retention control Defaults to one month; configurable to 1 day, 1 week, 3 months, 1 year, or forever Official pastea.app FAQ
Sync Optional iCloud Sync across your Macs, through your own private iCloud Official pastea.app
Ignore rules Stop saving from specific apps, or exclude whole types (text, images, links, files) Official pastea.app
Price Lifetime only. Regular $29.99; launch offer $22.49 (25% off) for the first 50 customers. Counter on site reads 13/50 claimed, 37 left Official pastea.app pricing section
Trial 7-day free trial of the full app, no credit card. Everything saved during the trial stays Official pastea.app FAQ
Subscription / free tier Neither. One plan, the full app, no feature limits, all future Pro updates included Official pastea.app pricing section
Update policy All future Pro updates included with the license Official pastea.app pricing section
Platform macOS only. An iOS companion is wanted but has no date Official pastea.app FAQ
Launch Product Hunt launch 2026-09-09 (StartupCorners digest) and 2026-09-08 batch (launch tracker) StartupCorners + LaunchAIJam

This is an official-information entry: we have not lived with a persistent clipboard history on this Mac, so there is no score.

The one-time-purchase argument

The clipboard-manager category is mostly subscriptions. Paste sits at $29.99/year or $2.49/month, Pastebot bills $2.99/month or $24.99/year on the App Store, and TypeFire sells a bundled text expander at $18 once. Against that field, Pastea’s shape is different: one payment, $22.49 on launch, nothing to renew, every feature unlocked, all future Pro updates included. There is no free tier and no per-year option to downgrade to — you either keep it or you stop.

That structure only works if the value is in the capture itself rather than in hosted storage. And that is where Pastea sits: clips live on the Mac, smart search runs locally, OCR runs locally, and the only outbound request is fetching a title and image for a URL you copied, which the FAQ says can be switched off. Password-manager captures are flagged concealed and can be excluded entirely.

Where the MCP hook matters

The differentiator that no other tool in this category has is the private local endpoint. Claude, Codex, VS Code, and Windsurf can be pointed at Pastea and then search, read, and copy clips — they cannot delete them, and concealed items never cross the wire. For a creator who copies reference text, links, and screenshots constantly, that turns the clipboard from a dead storage surface into something an agent can actually retrieve from, without the content leaving the machine.

Where to stay honest

  • The $22.49 is a launch price with a counter. The site shows 13 of 50 claimed and 37 left; at 50 it returns to $29.99. Both figures are on the page, not estimated.
  • “AI rewrite and translate” has no model disclosed. The site says nothing about which model backs it, where it runs, or what it costs — the price table is silent on this, which is itself worth noting.
  • The 7-day trial is not a free tier. When it ends you buy the license; there is no permanent free plan.
  • macOS only, and no iOS date. The FAQ says an iOS companion is wanted with no timeline. If you want phone clipboard history, this is not it.
  • The third-party trackers are digest summaries, not hands-on reviews. Both confirm the launch window and the positioning, neither confirms pricing independently — the numbers here come from pastea.app directly.

Who it’s for

  • Mac users who want a one-time price instead of another yearly subscription
  • People who copy screenshots constantly and want the text out of them searchable
  • Anyone feeding reference material to Claude or Codex who wants the retrieval to happen locally
  • Not for: Windows or Linux users, iPhone/iPad users, or anyone who wants a free plan — there is none

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