What's New

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.

0.5.7

October 13, 2026

Writing a multi-line instruction in the Action Palette is easier.

Shift-Return for a new line

  • Pressing Shift-Return in the Action Palette's input used to run your command, the same as Return. It now starts a new line, the way it does in most chat boxes, so you can lay out a longer instruction before you send it.
  • Option-Return still starts a new line too, and Return on its own still runs the command.

0.5.6

October 3, 2026

Setup explains the global shortcut more clearly.

Keys you can find

  • The shortcut used to appear as symbols, ⌃⌥V, which many keyboards don't print and which are easy to mix up. Setup now shows each key by name: hold Control and Option, then press V. The key names update as you choose a different shortcut.
  • The Try it out step and the final setup screen show the keys the same way.

When to use the shortcut

  • The shortcut screen now says plainly what the shortcut is for: opening the Action Palette on whatever's already on your clipboard, with no need to copy it again. Examples follow: an image copied with right-click in Chrome, a reply copied with the copy button in ChatGPT or Claude, or anything you copied earlier.
  • Already set up? You can see the new screens with Settings → Advanced → Replay Welcome…

0.5.5

October 2, 2026

Dragging the Action Palette by its input bar is predictable now.

Drag from the bar, type in the text

  • The input bar used to drag the window or place the cursor depending on which invisible band of it you pressed. Now the text decides: over what you've typed, or the placeholder, the cursor is an I-beam and a press places the caret or selects. Everywhere else in the bar the cursor is an arrow, and dragging there moves the Action Palette.
  • A plain click anywhere in the bar still puts the cursor in the field, at the nearest spot: beside a line, at that line's end; above a word, on that word.
  • The footer and the row of category chips drag as before.

0.5.4

October 2, 2026

The Action Palette's input grows with what you type, and Sonnet replies no longer get cut short.

An input with room to write

  • A long instruction used to scroll sideways in a single line, so you couldn't read it back or see what you were editing. The field now wraps and grows to six lines, then scrolls.
  • With an action selected, your text sits beside it while it fits on the first line and moves beneath it once it doesn't, keeping the same width throughout so the words never re-wrap mid-move. Deleting back brings it up again.
  • The field in the result view, where you refine a reply, wraps past the back button on every line instead of running under it.
  • The Action Palette itself stays the same size on screen; the row below the input makes room.

Full replies on Sonnet

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 thinks for a moment before some replies, and that thinking counted against the reply's length, so an action on the Sonnet tier could stop after one sentence and blame its length setting. Sonnet now gets the same thinking allowance as Opus. This applies on CopyCopyPaste's built-in access and with your own API key.

0.5.3

September 30, 2026

Copy Copy now keeps working when another app has turned on secure keyboard entry, and a reply that fails partway no longer lands on your clipboard.

Copy Copy works through secure input

  • Password managers and sign-in pages turn on macOS's secure keyboard entry, which hides your keystrokes from other apps. Some leave it on long after you've moved on, often from the moment you unlock your Mac, and pressing ⌘C twice used to do nothing until it was released.
  • Copy Copy now keeps working while it's on. CopyCopyPaste watches for ⌘ and the clipboard changing instead of the C key, so it still never sees what you type.
  • While secure input is on, the two copies need to be of the same thing, or one needs to contain the other, like a message and then its whole thread. Cutting or copying two different lines in a row won't open the Action Palette.
  • The menu bar no longer warns that Copy Copy is blocked or tells you to quit an app. The app macOS named was usually the login window, which was never the cause. Settings shows a quiet note while secure input is on.

Steadier

  • When the model is overloaded or the connection drops partway through a reply, the Action Palette now shows an error instead of copying the cut-off reply to your clipboard.
  • Copy Copy recovers more reliably after your Mac wakes from sleep.
  • Fixed a rare crash when the clipboard changed while CopyCopyPaste was reading it.

0.5.2

September 28, 2026

Every action now runs on the newest Claude models, released today.

Newer models

  • The Sonnet tier is now Claude Sonnet 5.5 and the Opus tier is Claude Opus 5.5. Haiku is unchanged.
  • Actions you already have move over on their own, including any you created or copied. There is nothing to change in Configure → Actions.
  • This applies whether you use CopyCopyPaste's built-in access or your own API key. With your own key, this update is what moves you to the new models.
  • Replies stay as quick as before: the models are asked to answer directly rather than deliberate first.

0.5.1

September 28, 2026

A small, sturdier follow-up to yesterday's sync release, from a careful check of how it behaves when something goes wrong.

Sync keeps going

  • If one action or memory can't be accepted by the server, it no longer holds up everything else. That item stays as it is on the Mac it's on, and the rest of your changes sync normally.
  • A Mac that can't send for a moment still receives what changed on your other Macs, instead of waiting until sending works again.
  • A Mac whose clock is set ahead no longer ignores edits made on your other Macs after a few minutes have passed.
  • The action and memory editors no longer accept a title that is only a blank line, which the server would have refused.

0.5.0

September 27, 2026

The biggest change since the first beta: your actions and memories now follow you across your Macs. Sign in on each one with the same account and they stay the same everywhere.

Sync across your Macs

  • Create an action, star a favorite, assign a quick key, or edit a memory on one Mac and the others pick it up within about a minute, or as soon as you switch back to CopyCopyPaste there.
  • It works offline. Changes you make without a connection are kept and sent the next time you're online, and the Action Palette opens just as fast as before because everything is still stored on your Mac.
  • Clipboard history is not part of this and never leaves your Mac. The built-in actions themselves aren't stored per account either, only which ones you've starred and the quick keys you've given them.
  • Settings shows the sync status under your account, and signing out simply pauses it. Everything stays on the Mac and keeps working.

Two things to know

  • Reset to Defaults in Settings now applies to every Mac you're signed in to, not just the one you're on.
  • Signing into a different account on a Mac replaces that Mac's actions and memories with that account's. A backup copy of the previous ones is saved in the app's Application Support folder first.

Also in this release

  • Your existing actions and memories carry over on the first launch of this version. The way they're stored changed to make sync possible; a backup copy is saved in Application Support before anything is touched, and there's nothing you need to do.
  • A dropped connection no longer signs you out. Only a real sign-in problem does now, so a flaky network mid-sync just waits for the next try.

0.4.1

September 27, 2026

A small release that fixes a frustrating one: closing the Action Palette a moment too early no longer throws away the reply you were waiting for.

Replies finish in the background

  • Once a reply has started appearing in the Action Palette, you can click into the app you're replying in, or switch apps entirely, and the reply keeps going. When it finishes, it lands on your clipboard as usual, ready to paste.
  • Before this, the reply only reached your clipboard if the palette stayed open the whole time. Clicking away a beat early, which is the natural next move, quietly cancelled it.
  • Closing the palette before anything has appeared still cancels the run, and so does pressing Esc while it's generating. Only a reply that's already on its way is allowed to finish.

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.
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