Hey r/macosapps

Like many of you, I constantly found myself juggling two annoying problems throughout the workday:

1. Copying something, accidentally overwriting it with another copy, and losing the original snippet.
2. Opening a bulky notes app or a random browser tab just to temporarily hold a snippet, API key, formatted prompt, or quick note while working.

Most clipboard managers focus only on history, while note apps are too heavy for temporary scratch work. I wanted something lightweight that lives right in the menu bar and handles both seamlessly without subscriptions or bloat.

So I built Paste Box.

What is Paste Box?

It combines a fast clipboard history manager with a persistent scratchpad designed for quick drafting and staging text.

Key Features:

• 📋 Unified Clipboard History: Automatically logs what you copy with fast instant search so you can retrieve past snippets in seconds.
• 📝 Persistent Scratchpad & Drafts: A dedicated space to stage thoughts, compose messages, or hold temporary text that stays intact even across system restarts.
• 🔒 Privacy-First & 100% Offline: Sandboxed with zero network tracking, analytics, or third-party telemetry. All data stays strictly on your Mac.
• ✨ Smart Clean-Text Formatting: One-click actions to strip excess formatting, trim whitespaces, and paste clean text sanity.
• ⚡ Menu Bar First & Native Feel: Compact, glassmorphic interface that stays out of your way until you need it, with Launch at Login support.
• ✍️ Spell Checking & LLM Drafting: Built-in spell checking and a distraction-free area to polish prompts or responses before pasting them into tools.

Link & Feedback

One time purchase of 2.99 USD

• Mac App Store: Download Paste Box on the App Store
• Website: www.giant-turtle.com/paste-box.html

I’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any feature requests you'd like to see in upcoming updates!

I built Markify because Markdown editors kept making me choose: stare at raw syntax, or squint at a split preview. Markify gives you one page with two lenses. Write in the rendered document, press ⌘/ and the same text appears as Markdown, caret and scroll exactly where you left them. Your files stay plain .md.

Built only for the Mac. No Electron.

Read Markdown from anywhere. Paste an HTTPS link to any .md file, or point Markify at a GitHub or GitLab repository and browse its docs. Private repos work with a token.

Google's Open Knowledge Format, built in. Open an OKF bundle and Markify understands it: concepts, frontmatter, sources and cross links, with validation that flags what's broken.

Everything your docs need. Tables, task lists, footnotes, callouts, math and Mermaid diagrams render in place. Export to HTML or PDF. Apple Intelligence features run on your Mac.

Quick Look that actually renders. Select a .md file in Finder and press Space: formatted text, images, math and Mermaid diagrams, no app launch.

A CLI for your scripts and agents. markify view opens a coding agent's report straight in the app, markify check validates OKF bundles in CI, and markify export turns Markdown into HTML.

Free, source on GitHub, for Apple silicon and Intel on macOS 26. First launch needs Open Anyway (install guide).

Download 2.0.2: https://github.com/spaquet/markify/releases/latest

Website: https://spaquet.github.io/markify/

What would make it your default Markdown app?