Pastebot 4+

I can barely remember what it was like to live without pastebot. I… Somehow got my work done, but I think I was constantly copying and pasting into temporary text files to keep the snippets I needed, and I kept saving things in random files… It was terrible.

Pastebot is one of my favorite things about the Mac, and I’m glad it’s being featured, and having used it, I’d happily buy it again.

I did have some issues with it interacting with Microsoft Office products on the mac (Using Office 365) but I don’t remember exactly what was going wrong. Upong seeing those comments here, I retried, an it worked perfectly. To be clear, I had Pastebot running BEFORE I launched any of the Office products, and that might make a difference. It also might help that I recently restarted.

I have used several multi-clipboards and have generally liked them all. I tried out Pastebot on the strength of Tapbots' Tweetbot app for Twitter (now dead because of Elon Musk). Pastebot is a little more complicated than the other multi-clipboards but I quickly figured out the features I most need. Sequential Paste is great! I also like the ability to create separate pasteboards. Others have this feature but Pastebot was more immediately intuitive.

Finally I was delighted to find that things I've copied on my phone immediatey appear on my Mac. Very useful! Which brings up Pastebot's only shortcoming: They need to add an iOS client. I don't see one. Otherwise I love this app.

I’m retaining the copy of my original review as the below problems might be something other users are seeing. After speaking with Pastebot support, uninstalling and reinstalling and making sure “Install Paste Script” was no longer present under ‘File’ in the app’s menu fixed the problems.

I deal with several little snippets of text day in and day out and this app has made my life so much easier.

Want to start off by saying that I love this app and its design. It has worked flawlessly until recently. My primary problem is losing items in custom pasteboards. What typically happens is when I copy and paste from a custom pasteboard, that item is somehow deleted from that pasteboard at some point between the time I copy it and the next time I open the pasteboard. Have uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. Another issue I’ve been having on one of my Macs (a 2012 Pro) is that items aren’t automatically pasted when selected from a pasteboard. I hear the Mac’s “bonk” signifying an error before having to paste the item myself.

Will update to 5 stars once these problems are fixed.