Now in public beta — free for macOS

The best screenshot tool
and clipboard manager for Mac.

Stash is the best screenshot tool for Mac and the best clipboard manager for Mac — combined in one lightweight menu bar app. Capture any part of your screen, annotate it with arrows and shapes, and paste it anywhere. No saving files, no switching apps, no losing what you copied five minutes ago.

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Stash — the best clipboard manager for Mac — showing clipboard history with text snippets, screenshots, and image thumbnails
100% native macOS app · Built in Swift & SwiftUI · All data stays on your device · Lightweight — under 15 MB · Free during beta

You waste 15 minutes a day on your clipboard.
You just don't notice it.

You screenshot a bug, open Preview, annotate it, save the file, find the file, then drag it into Slack or Jira. That's five steps and two app switches for one image. Multiply that by every bug report, design review, and status update you send each week.

You paste the same Zoom link, email signature, project brief, or AI prompt dozens of times a week. Every single time, you open a note, scroll to find it, copy it, switch back to the app you were in, and paste. That's 30 seconds for something that should take one.

You copy a code snippet from Stack Overflow, switch to Slack to reply to a message, and the snippet is gone. Your clipboard holds exactly one thing. The moment you copy something new, everything before it disappears forever.

You paste a screenshot into Claude or ChatGPT with a red arrow pointing at a UI element. The AI doesn't know what the arrow means, so you spend another minute typing "the button in the top-right corner" to explain what you already pointed at.

Your clipboard should work as fast as you do.

Six features. Zero compromises.

Why Stash is the best clipboard manager for Mac.

Clipboard History

30-day searchable history. Everything you copy is automatically saved, searchable, and one click away.

Hotkey Paste

Assign keyboard shortcuts to your most-used clips. Press the hotkey from any app and it pastes instantly.

Screenshot & Annotate

⌘⌃S to capture. Built-in annotation with arrows, shapes, and colors. Auto-copies on each edit.

Private by Design

All data stored locally. No cloud sync, no tracking. Everything stays on your Mac.

Built for Vibe Coding

AI Context Banners add app name, OS version, and resolution. Annotations described as structured metadata AI can read.

Video Capture for AI

⌘⌃R to record with voice, or Instant Replay to save the last 30–120 seconds. AI capture reports with key frames, interaction logs, and transcripts.

Screenshot + Annotate

The best screenshot tool for Mac — in 3 seconds.

Press your hotkey to capture any region of your screen. An annotation overlay appears instantly — draw arrows, rectangles, or ellipses to highlight exactly what you mean. The moment you draw, the annotated image is copied to your clipboard automatically. No save dialog. No file management. No exporting. Just ⌘V into Slack, Jira, email, or any app that accepts images.

Found a UI bug? Capture it, draw an arrow pointing to the broken element, and paste it into your bug tracker — all without leaving the app you're reviewing. Giving design feedback? Circle the spacing issue and paste it right into the thread. The entire workflow that used to take Preview, Finder, and a drag-and-drop is now one keystroke and one paste.

  • Customizable global screenshot hotkey — works from any app
  • Annotation tools: arrows, rectangles, and ellipses with adjustable color
  • Auto-copy on every edit — your clipboard updates with each annotation
  • Paste directly into Slack, Jira, Linear, Notion, Claude, ChatGPT, email, and more
  • No files to save, name, or organize — it's always on your clipboard
Stash — best screenshot tool for Mac — showing annotation with a red arrow on a captured screenshot
Clipboard History

Everything you've copied, always available.

Your Mac clipboard only remembers one thing at a time. Stash remembers everything. Every piece of text, every screenshot, every image you copy is saved to a searchable, scrollable history in your menu bar. Copied a URL ten minutes ago and pasted something else since? It's still in Stash. Grabbed a code snippet from three apps ago? Still there.

Filter your history by content type — see only text, only images, or everything at once. Click any item to copy it back to your clipboard instantly. Your history is stored locally on your device, never sent to the cloud, and never shared with anyone.

  • Unlimited clipboard history — text, images, screenshots, and recordings
  • Filter by All, Text, or Images to find what you need fast
  • Click any history item to re-copy it instantly
  • See which app each item came from and when you copied it
  • 100% local storage — your clipboard data never leaves your Mac
Stash clipboard history showing screenshots and images from multiple apps
Bookmarks

Save the stuff you paste every single day.

Some things you copy once and paste forever — your Zoom link, email signature, canned replies, code snippets, AI prompts, project URLs. Instead of hunting through notes or docs every time, bookmark them in Stash and give each one a name. They stay in your menu bar permanently until you remove them.

Bookmarks are perfect for the 10-20 things you paste repeatedly throughout the week. Your "Board Emails" distribution list. Your "UI Prompt" for Claude. Your notarization key. Name them once, and they're always one click away — no searching, no switching apps, no digging through documents.

  • Bookmark any clipboard item with a custom name
  • Bookmarks persist forever — they survive app restarts and reboots
  • Organize your most-used text, links, code, and images in one place
  • One click to paste any bookmark back to your clipboard
Stash bookmarks tab showing named items like Zoom Link, UI Prompt, and Board Emails with hotkey badges
Instant-Paste Hotkeys

⌘J for your Zoom link. ⌘K for your email sig. ⌘L for your AI prompt.

Assign a global keyboard shortcut to any bookmark. Press it from any app — Chrome, Slack, VS Code, Mail, Terminal — and the content pastes instantly. No popover, no menu bar click, no searching. One keystroke, and it's pasted. This is the fastest way to insert text you use repeatedly.

When you bookmark a clipboard item, Stash auto-assigns a hotkey (⌘J, ⌘K, ⌘L, etc.). You can customize any shortcut, and Stash's built-in conflict detection prevents you from accidentally overriding system shortcuts like ⌘C or ⌘V. Set up to 20 custom hotkeys for the content you paste most.

  • Global hotkeys work from any application — no need to open Stash first
  • Auto-assigned on bookmark, or customize to your preferred shortcut
  • Built-in conflict detection protects macOS system shortcuts
  • Works with text, links, code snippets, and images
  • Up to 20 simultaneous hotkeys — one for every thing you paste daily
Stash bookmarks showing hotkey badges ⌘Z, ⌘3, ⌘J, ⌘9, ⌘E, ⌘L assigned to bookmarks
AI-Ready Screenshots

The best screenshot tool for vibe coding.

When you paste a screenshot into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, the AI sees pixels — not meaning. A red arrow pointing at a button means nothing to an LLM without context. Stash changes that. Every annotation you draw is embedded with structured metadata that tells the AI exactly what you're pointing at, what UI element it's near, and what you're trying to communicate.

The result: you paste an annotated screenshot and the AI immediately understands "the user is pointing at the Submit button in the top-right corner of the form." No more typing "see the red arrow" or "look at the circled area." Your screenshots become self-documenting.

See the Vibe Coding Application →
Built For

For anyone who copies, pastes, and screenshots all day long.

Stash is built for people who live in multiple apps and constantly move information between them. If you've ever lost something you copied, re-typed a link you paste every day, or spent too long getting a screenshot into a chat thread, Stash was built for you.

  • Product managers — screenshot bugs, annotate mockups, paste into Jira and Slack without the file dance
  • Developers — keep code snippets, API keys, terminal commands, and error messages one hotkey away
  • Designers — capture UI details, annotate feedback, paste into Figma comments or design reviews
  • Founders & executives — bookmark investor updates, board emails, meeting links, and standard replies for instant access
  • Support teams — save canned responses, troubleshooting steps, and escalation templates as bookmarks
  • Anyone using AI — bookmark your best prompts and paste them into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini with one keystroke
Stash history showing clips from Chrome, Excel, Outlook, and other apps
How It Works

Three steps. Three seconds.

1

Capture

Press a hotkey to screenshot any region of your screen.

2

Annotate

Draw arrows, boxes, and circles. Your image is copied to the clipboard automatically.

3

Paste

⌘V into any app. Or assign a hotkey to paste anything you use often — one keystroke, from anywhere.

Why Stash

What makes Stash the best clipboard manager for Mac.

Without Stash

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Screenshot → Open Preview → Annotate → Save → Find file → Drag to chat

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AI can't read your arrows. You type what you already pointed at.

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Copy something new and the old clipboard is gone forever.

✕

Find that Zoom link in Notes. Scroll. Copy. Switch back. Paste.

✕

Screen recordings show the bug, but AI can't watch videos.

With Stash

✓

⌘⌃S → Annotate → ⌘V. Three seconds. One workflow.

✓

AI Context Banners + annotation metadata. AI reads your callouts.

✓

30-day searchable history. Every clip saved, bookmarked, searchable.

✓

Press your hotkey. Paste instantly. From any app, anywhere.

✓

⌘⌃R to record with voice narration, or Instant Replay to capture the last 30–120 seconds. AI capture reports with key frames, interaction logs, and transcripts.

Stop losing what you copy. Download Stash.

The best clipboard manager and screenshot tool for Mac. Clipboard history, bookmarks, screenshot annotations, and instant-paste hotkeys — all in one native macOS app. Free during beta. Under 15 MB.

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