Release Notes
CopyCopyPaste updates itself in the background, so you're normally on the newest build without doing anything. You can also check any time from the menu bar with Check for Updates…, or download the current build directly.
Notes start at 0.2.0. Earlier 0.1.x builds were the first private beta and weren't written up.
0.4.0
August 13, 2026
Starting a free trial no longer strands you in the browser: checkout hands you straight back to the app, with the action you were about to run still loaded. And your subscription is now tied to the account you're signed in with — not to whichever email address ends up on the payment.
Checkout brings you back
- After you subscribe, the confirmation page shows an Open CopyCopyPaste button. One click lands you back in the app with the Action Palette open and the action you were about to run — including anything you'd typed with it — ready to go. Press Return and you're done.
- That works even if you copied something else along the way (a promo code, your card number): the command you composed survives the trip.
- If you skip the button and just come back yourself, the app catches up on its own — it now keeps watching for your subscription for much longer after you head to checkout, and re-checks whenever you open the Action Palette.
Your subscription follows your account
- Paying with a different email than you signed in with — a work address, or an address your browser autofilled — used to leave the app thinking you had no subscription at all. The purchase is now credited to the account you're signed in with, regardless of the email on the payment.
- The checkout page shows which account you're subscribing as, so there's never a question about where the trial will land.
0.3.6
August 13, 2026
A clearer explanation when you reach the end of your free actions — and, from this release on, notes like these appear right inside Check for Updates… so you can see what changed before you install it.
You'll know why you hit the paywall
- Running out of free actions used to open with a sales pitch and no explanation. It now says plainly that you've used your free actions, so a product you were happily using an hour ago doesn't start asking for money without a reason.
- Pricing lives on the website rather than in the app, so what you see when you subscribe is always current.
- If you still have free actions left, Settings no longer tells you "No subscription yet" as though you were already blocked.
Release notes where you actually see them
Check for Updates… used to offer a new version with a blank panel and no way to tell what was in it. Every release from now on arrives with a short summary and a link to the full notes.
0.3.5
August 12, 2026
The Action Palette stops throwing away what you were in the middle of. Pin it open, switch apps to look something up, and come back to your half-written command still sitting there.
Pin the Action Palette
- The palette can stay open while you work elsewhere. Click the pin in the bottom-left corner and switching to another app no longer closes it — go look up the date, the name, the link you needed, and come back to it. It follows you across Spaces and floats over full-screen apps.
- A pinned palette also won't auto-dismiss after a result, so you can read and copy at your own pace. Esc still closes it whenever you want.
- Drag the palette anywhere. Grab the card and move it if it's sitting on top of what you're reading.
Your typing survives
- Half-written commands come back. If the palette closes while you were typing, what you'd written is waiting the next time you open it on the same clipboard item. Closing with Esc still means you meant it, and clears it.
- Picking an action keeps your context. Type a few notes, then choose an action, and your text is still there with the cursor at the end — it used to vanish.
- Backspace clears the action, not your words. With an empty field, ⌫ dissolves the action you'd picked so you can choose another. This was always meant to work and never did.
- The ⏎ badge at the end of the input is now a real button, and a much easier one to hit.
Polish
- The action chip in the input row is easier to read in light mode — it was too faint against the field.
- Memories now offers a New Memory button when you haven't written any yet, instead of leaving you to find the one in the toolbar.
- First-run setup reads better throughout: clearer sign-in copy about the emailed code, a Verify button that waits for the whole code, and a permission step that leads with what you get rather than what macOS will ask you.
0.3.0
August 4, 2026
The biggest update yet. The Action Palette was rebuilt end to end, actions and memories got smarter, and onboarding is all new.
The Action Palette, rebuilt
- Every action is always available. No more installing or enabling actions — all built-ins are present from the start, organized by category chips (For You, Messaging, Social, Writing, and more). Switch chips with ⌘1–⌘8.
- Add context to any action. Pick an action, then optionally type extra instructions before pressing ⏎. Or skip the action entirely: just type what you want and press ⏎ to run it as a custom task.
- Your clipboard is always visible. A preview band shows what you copied in every state. Click it to jump to that item in Clipboard History.
- A calmer, clearer design. One-column lists, a cleaner footer with a live progress line, and a countdown you can pause just by pointing at it. When a result is ready, it's on your clipboard — paste with ⌘V.
- Favorites, front and center. Star any action and it appears in For You. Reorder your favorites by dragging in Configure → Actions → Favorites.
- Save a repeated task as an action. If you keep typing the same custom instruction, the palette offers to save it as a real action, prefilled and named from your own words.
Actions are yours to shape
- The Actions screen now shows the whole catalog with three views: All, Favorites, and Created by Me.
- Make a Copy of any built-in to customize it. Your copy is entirely yours to edit, including which content types it works with (anything, text only, or images and PDFs).
- Assign a quick key to any action by clicking its keycap. If the key is taken, we'll tell you who has it and offer to reassign.
Memories that pull their weight
- Actions now include only the memories that are actually relevant to what you copied, instead of all of them every time.
- After a run, CopyCopyPaste may suggest saving something you typed as a new memory — always your call.
Also in this release
- All-new onboarding, including a Personalize step so your replies sound like you from day one.
- Subscriptions are live: every account starts with a free trial, and you can manage your plan from Settings.
- Removed: the Preview Before Copying setting. Results always land on your clipboard, and you can refine from the palette.
0.2.0
July 30, 2026
Your clipboard is more than text, and now CopyCopyPaste is too.
Run actions on images, files, and PDFs
Copy a screenshot, an image, or a PDF from Finder and run actions on it: summarize a document, extract text from an image, whatever the task calls for. Files that are too large are compressed automatically, and if something isn't supported you'll get a clear message instead of a mystery failure.
A new Clipboard History
- A two-pane layout: browse your history by day on the left, see the full item on the right.
- Images and files show real previews. Open images in a full-size viewer with zoom, reveal files in Finder, and copy anything back exactly as you copied it — images come back pixel-identical.
- Filter by type (text, images, files, or generated), pin the items you return to, and search by content, source app, or file name. Your Figma screenshots are now findable by typing "Figma".
- Copied a link? It shows as a link, with Open Link one click away.
Nicer results
- Results written in Markdown now display formatted: headings, lists, and links, the way they were meant to read. What you paste is unchanged.
- Refining a result now carries your earlier feedback forward, so "shorter" plus "less formal" stays both.