Clipboard + screenshots · Built for macOS
Every copy.Every capture.
One private timeline.
Stashpane is a screenshot tool and a clipboard manager in one Mac app. Everything you copy or capture lands on a timeline you can search, and none of it leaves your Mac.
Try it: select any words here, then press CmdC
TimelineCmdShiftV
Copy it, capture it, find it later.
Every copy and every capture lands on one timeline, newest first. Search for “invoice” and you’ll find the screenshot of one, because the text inside every image is read on your Mac.
- Duplicates bubble upCopy the same thing twice and it moves to the top instead of piling up.
- Text inside imagesEvery screenshot and copied image is read on-device, so you can search it.
- FiltersText, links, images, screenshots, recordings, files and colours.
- Quick copyCmd + 1–9 copy one of the latest nine. Cmd-click to copy several.
- Plain textShiftReturn pastes without the formatting.
Three layoutsCmdShiftV
Open it your way.
Press CmdShiftV and your history opens in the layout you like. Switch from the header or in Settings, any time.
- 0 × 0Timeline
A tall glass drawer on the right edge, grouped under Just Now, Earlier Today and Yesterday. Screenshots show large.
- 0 × 0Cursor Stack
Opens right at your pointer with the latest eight. Type to filter, Space for Quick Look.
- 0 × 0Palette
Keyboard first, with a live preview beside the list.
CaptureCmdShift2
The screen freezes the moment you press.
Press CmdShift2 and the screen holds still. Select on the frozen frame with a pixel loupe, a colour readout and live dimensions, or click a window to capture just that window.
- Area, window or screenA bar at the bottom shows what a click or drag will do.
- Pixel loupeLand on the exact pixel, and see its colour.
- Retina and Display P3Captured at the screen’s native resolution and colour.
- HDROn XDR displays, captures keep their full brightness range.
Scrolling captureCmdShift2thenL
A whole page, at your own pace.
Select a scrolling area and scroll through it. Stashpane stitches each frame into one tall image as you go, and checks every seam row by row, so a sticky header shows up exactly once.
- Any speedScroll fast or slow, and back up if you overshoot.
- Sticky headers, onceHeaders and footers that stay put aren’t repeated down the image.
- Aligned on your MacApple’s Vision framework lines up the frames on-device.
- Return to finishReturn stitches, Esc cancels.
Screen recordingCmdShift2thenR
A ten-minute tutorial in about 20 MB.
Record an area, a window or a whole display, with system audio, your microphone or both. Frames are only stored when the screen changes, so a still screen costs almost nothing. Typical tutorials land around 1–3 MB a minute.
- A bar that stays out of itTimer, live file size, levels, pause, mute and stop. Never in the recording.
- Trim and optimizeTrim the ends, or re-encode for another 20–30% off.
- Ordinary MP4 filesSaved to Movies › Stashpane, or a folder you choose.
- Microphone on requestOff until you turn it on, and only open while you record.
Capture TextCmdShift2thenT
Copy text you can’t select.
Press CmdShift2thenT and drag over anything on screen: a video, a slide, an error dialog. The text is recognised on your Mac and copied.
Quick Access and Pins
Drag it straight where it goes.
After each capture a thumbnail slides in. Copy it, save it, annotate it, or drag it into another app. Pin one to keep it floating above everything while you work.
AnnotateCmdE
Mark it up today. Change it next week.
Arrows, shapes, text, numbered steps, highlighter and pixelate. Your marks are kept apart from the image, so you can reopen a screenshot days later and move or delete any of them.
- Numbered stepsThey count themselves as you click.
- PixelateHide names, emails and keys before you share.
- Background framesA gradient backdrop with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow.
- Undo everythingFull undo and redo, even after you close the editor.
And the rest
The small things you’ll notice daily.
- Saved as files too
Screenshots go to Pictures › Stashpane, or a folder you choose. Names never overwrite.
- Copy anything back
Return copies and closes, then CmdV pastes. No Accessibility access needed.
- Passwords stay out
Items marked as passwords are never read. 1Password and friends are ignored.
- Hidden on screen shares
Stashpane’s panels don’t show in video calls, streams or other screenshots.
- Every shortcut is yours
Rebind them all in Settings › Shortcuts.
- Not in Time Machine
History is left out of backups, and deleted items are zeroed on disk.
- Paste several at once
Copy three images together and they paste as three.
- Built for macOS
Native SwiftUI and AppKit, in Liquid Glass. Only Apple frameworks inside.
- Light on your Mac
A menu bar app. An unedited screenshot file is a clone, so it takes no extra space.
Privacy
It can’t reach the internet. Check for yourself.
That isn’t a promise in a policy. Stashpane ships without permission to use the network, so macOS blocks it. Paste this into Terminal and look.
Always Offline
$ codesign -d --entitlements :- /Applications/Stashpane.app com.apple.security.app-sandbox true com.apple.security.assets.movies.read-write true com.apple.security.assets.pictures.read-write true com.apple.security.device.audio-input true com.apple.security.files.bookmarks.app-scope true com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write true # no com.apple.security.network.client # no com.apple.security.network.server
- Always offline
- Stashpane has no permission to use the network, so macOS refuses every connection it could try to open. It isn’t a setting.
- Encryption if you want it
- Turn it on and every item is sealed with AES-256 before it touches disk, with a key that never leaves this Mac’s Keychain.
- Passwords never recorded
- Copies that password managers mark as secret are skipped before they’re read. That can’t be turned off.
- Invisible on screen shares
- Every Stashpane panel is left out of screen sharing and screen recordings.
- Nothing in your backups
- The history is excluded from Time Machine, and deleted items are zeroed rather than just unlinked.
- Only Apple’s code
- No third-party libraries, no analytics, no crash reporter. Nothing else to trust.
Keyboard shortcuts
Every shortcut, out of the box.
Two shortcuts to learn, then single letters. These are the defaults, and you can change any of them in Settings.
Anywhere on your Mac
4 shortcutsTwo shortcuts, three keys each. Everything else is a letter after Capture.
- Open your historyCmdShiftV
- CaptureFreezes the screen; a letter picks what to takeCmdShift2
- Stop a recordingThe same key againCmdShift2
- Use the Mac’s own keys insteadOptional, in Settings › Shortcuts: full screen, capture, recordCmdShift3·CmdShift4·CmdShift5
While capturing
10 shortcutsOn the frozen screen after Capture, and during scrolling capture.
- AreaAor1
- WindowWor2
- ScreenSor3
- Copy the text insteadT
- Scrolling captureL
- RecordR
- Swap area and windowSpace
- Take the selection or the screen under the pointerReturn
- Finish a scrolling captureReturn
- CancelEsc
In your history
15 shortcutsIn every layout: Timeline, Cursor Stack and Palette.
- Move through itemsUporDown
- Copy and closeReturn
- Copy as plain textShiftReturn
- Copy and stay openCmdReturnorCmdC
- Copy one of the latest nineAny number from 1 to 9Cmd+1–9
- Quick LookSpaceorCmdY
- Switch the filterTaborShiftTab
- Pin or unpinCmdP
- AnnotateCmdE
- Open the fileCmdO
- Save asCmdS
- Copy the text in an imageCmdT
- DeleteCmdDelete
- SettingsCmd,
- Clear the search, then closeEsc
In the editor
17 shortcutsSingle keys pick a tool, like the ones you already know.
- SelectV
- ArrowA
- RectangleR
- EllipseO
- LineL
- DrawD
- TextT
- Step counterN
- HighlightH
- PixelateP
- Nudge the selected markHold Shift to move 10 pixelsUporDown
- Delete the selected markDelete
- UndoCmdZ
- RedoCmdShiftZ
- Copy the imageCmdShiftC
- SaveCmdS
- DoneCmdReturn