Questions and answers

⌥V opens your clipboard history. Type to search, then press Return to copy the item, or ⌘P to pin it. ⌥⇧V drops your latest screenshot onto the canvas; when there's no fresh screenshot it shows or hides the canvas. Both can be changed in Settings.

Depends on the version. In the Mac App Store version, choosing an item copies it to your clipboard and the panel shows "Press ⌘V"; press ⌘V wherever your cursor is and it's there. The version downloaded from copyslate.com pastes straight into the app you're in.

Copyslate lives in the menu bar, at the top right of your screen, as a small clipboard icon. Click it for the menu, or just press ⌥V. If the icon is hidden because the menu bar is full, hold ⌘ and drag icons to make room, or open the app from Launchpad.

Yes. Turn on "Open at login" in Settings. macOS may show a notification that a login item was added.

Copyslate watches the folder where macOS saves screenshots (the Desktop by default). If you changed that folder in the Screenshot app, point Copyslate at the same folder in Settings. If macOS asked for folder access and you declined, grant it under System Settings, Privacy & Security, Files and Folders.

Any Mac running macOS 14 or later.

A pinned item stays in its own group at the bottom of the panel and is never removed by the automatic clean-up. Pin with ⌘P or by right-clicking the item. Pins survive "Clear History".

Right-click any item to pin it, delete it or add it to your canvas. To clear everything, choose "Clear History" from the menu bar icon. Pins stay.

Choose "Pause saving" from the menu bar icon. To skip one app for good, right-click an item it copied and choose "Never Save from" that app; the list of skipped apps lives in the menu bar menu, where you can take an app off it again. Items from password managers are never saved, because those apps mark their clipboard contents as concealed.

In a folder inside your user Library, on your Mac only. Nothing is uploaded; there is no account and no server. The folder is excluded from backups. Details are in the privacy policy.

Choose the number of items to keep in Settings. Older items are removed as new ones arrive. Pinned items are kept regardless.

Click the pin icon in the canvas title bar. The canvas then floats above whatever app you switch to, so you can model, draw or design with your references beside you. Click it again to let it behave like a normal window.

Yes. Right-click any image in your history and choose "Add to Canvas", or drag image files from Finder straight onto the canvas. ⌥⇧V is for your latest screenshot, taken in the last couple of minutes.

A saved canvas, with its images, notes and layout. Open it to pick up where you left off. Finder shows a preview of the board. Anyone with Copyslate can open a .slate file you send them.

Press ⌘Z. Every move, resize, rotation, flip and deletion can be undone.

Clipboard history and automatic screenshot copying are free forever. Canvas and Pins are free for 7 days, then a one-time purchase of $9.99 (or the equivalent in your local currency) keeps them. There is no subscription and no account.

Clipboard history keeps working for free. Canvas and Pins lock until you buy; nothing you made is deleted, and your boards open again as soon as you unlock.

No. $9.99 once, and every update to Copyslate is included.

Install Copyslate from the Mac App Store on the other Mac, signed in with the same Apple Account, then choose "Restore purchase" in Settings.

Choose "Restore purchase" in Settings. If it stays locked, check that the Mac is signed in to the Apple Account that made the purchase (App Store, then your name at the bottom left). If that doesn't help, report it with the date of purchase.

Purchases through the Mac App Store are refunded by Apple. Go to reportaproblem.apple.com, sign in, find Copyslate and choose "Request a refund". We can't issue App Store refunds ourselves.

Yes. Download the direct version; history and screenshot copying are free for good, Canvas and Pins for 7 days, after which a license key from the buy page at the same one-time price. The refund policy applies.

Quit it from the menu bar icon, then drag it from Applications to the Trash. To remove your history and settings too, delete the Copyslate folder from your user Library's Application Support folder. .slate files you saved elsewhere are ordinary documents and stay where they are.