A Local, Encrypted Pastebin Direct to your Mac.
Developers constantly need a temporary place to store code blocks, JSON payloads, and terminal outputs. The default? Navigating 10 tabs to find pastebin.com. The danger? Accidentally pasting proprietary config variables to a public URL.
Pasty acts as a highly secure, offline macOS Pastebin. Whenever you copy code, Pasty automatically detects the programming language, formats the syntax with colors, and safely encrypts it inside your Mac's hard drive.
Online Pastebins ⚠️
Security Risks: Every time you use an external pastebin, you risk leaking SSH keys, database credentials, or proprietary algorithms to indexing search engines or unlisted URLs.
Friction: It requires opening a browser, clicking "Create", copying the URL, sending the URL... it's a multi-step workflow simply to manage snippets.
Pasty Local Pastebin 🔐
Zero-Friction & Syntax Aware: Simply hit ⌘C in VSCode. Pasty automatically recognizes the language, applies syntax highlighting to the code block, and stores it in an infinite local queue.
AES-256 Encryption: Nothing ever leaves your Mac. Your code history is entirely local, encrypted heavily, and retrievable instantly via ⌥V without touching your mouse.
Common Pastebin Questions
Why Developers Need a Local Pastebin
Every developer has used an online pastebin at some point — Pastebin.com, GitHub Gist, or Hastebin — to temporarily store a code snippet, share a configuration file, or debug a payload. These services serve a purpose, but they come with significant trade-offs that most developers accept out of habit rather than consideration.
The most serious trade-off is security. When you paste a database connection string, an API key, or a proprietary algorithm into a public pastebin, that code is stored on someone else's server. Even "private" pastes are accessible via their URL — which means a leaked URL exposes your code to anyone. Google's web crawlers have indexed millions of "private" pastebin entries, and security researchers routinely harvest exposed credentials from public paste sites.
The second trade-off is friction. Using an online pastebin requires opening a browser, navigating to the site, pasting your content, configuring syntax highlighting manually, and generating a shareable URL. If you just want to store a code block for your own reference, this workflow is absurdly overengineered.
Pasty functions as a local, zero-friction pastebin built directly into macOS. When you copy code in your editor, Pasty automatically detects the programming language, applies syntax highlighting with accurate colour schemes, and stores the snippet in an AES-256 encrypted local database. There is no browser, no URL, no server — your code never leaves your Mac.
The automatic language detection supports over 30 programming languages including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, C++, Rust, Go, Ruby, Java, Kotlin, SQL, JSON, YAML, HTML, CSS, and shell scripts. Line numbers are displayed for every code block, and you can expand any snippet to full screen for detailed inspection before pasting. It turns your clipboard into a persistent, encrypted, syntax-aware code archive — a local pastebin that requires zero configuration and zero effort.
