Terms of Service.

Effective Date: March 2026.

Welcome to Pasty. By downloading or purchasing the Pasty software for macOS, you are agreeing to these painfully straightforward terms.

1. Ownership & Licensing

When you buy Pasty, you own a lifetime license. Full stop. No monthly subscriptions, no aggressive upsells, no forced server dependency. I hate SaaS subscription models for utility apps, and I refuse to implement them.

2. Uncompromising Delivery

Pasty is provided "as is", built natively for macOS environments (specifically engineered around Metal compositing and Swift 6). While I obsessively optimize every line of code to prevent bugs, crashes happen. I am not legally liable if your Mac throws a kernel panic or corrupts a clipboard string during a power failure.

3. Application Functionality

Pasty provides the following core capabilities, all processed entirely locally on your device:

  • Clipboard Monitoring: Automatically captures text, images, files, and URLs from the system clipboard and stores them in a local history.
  • AES-256 Encrypted Storage: All clipboard data is encrypted at rest using AES-256 and stored locally via SwiftData. No data is ever transmitted externally.
  • Syntax-Highlighted Code View: Automatically detects programming languages (30+) in copied text and renders full syntax highlighting with line numbers. All detection is performed locally — no cloud APIs are contacted.
  • Pin & Expand Previews: Hover over any clipboard entry to preview its content. Click to pin entries open for persistent viewing.
  • Edge-Resizable Panels: Both the hotkey panel and the menu bar popover can be resized by dragging any edge or corner. Your preferred dimensions are remembered across sessions.
  • Global Hotkey Access: Press ⌥V to instantly summon the clipboard panel at your cursor position.
  • Menu Bar Integration: A persistent menu bar icon provides quick access to your full clipboard history.

4. Ethical Hacking

If you're a vulnerability researcher mapping out macOS sandbox escapes and you find a flaw in my architecture, please email me via the protocol defined in .well-known/security.txt. Just don't decompile the `.app` binary and resell the source code on a sketchy forum. Be decent.

Thanks for supporting independent macOS philosophy. — Ina.