Welcome to PasteBuddy

Let's get you set up

This guide takes you from your purchase email to your first paste in a few minutes. Every step has a picture of what you'll see.

macOS 12 Monterey or later · Apple silicon & Intel

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Step 1 of 6

Get the app and your license key

Right after you paid, Dodo Payments emailed you a receipt. It links to your customer portal, where your download and license key are waiting.

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Open your purchase email

Search your inbox for Dodo Payments. The subject is “Payment Successful for order at PasteBuddy”. Not there? Check Spam or Promotions. Under Your Digital Products & Entitlements, click Access in your Customer Portal.

Inbox
Payment Successful for order at PasteBuddy
D
Dodo Paymentsto you
PasteBuddy
Thank you for your purchase!
Your Digital Products & Entitlements
PasteBuddy license keyDelivered
License Key
Access in your Customer Portal →
PasteBuddy for MacDelivered
Digital Files
Access in your Customer Portal →
1Click Access in your Customer Portal
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Find PasteBuddy in the portal

Your portal lists everything you bought under Entitlements. There are two rows: PasteBuddy for Mac (the download) and PasteBuddy license key.

Customer Portal
Entitlements
PasteBuddy license key View3
PasteBuddy for Mac View2
2View the app to download it3View the key to copy it
c

Download the app and copy your key

Click View next to PasteBuddy for Mac, then the download button next to PasteBuddy.dmg. It saves to your Downloads folder. Then click View next to PasteBuddy license key and use the copy button. You'll paste the key in step 4.

PasteBuddy for Mac
Digital Product Delivery
Files
PasteBuddy.dmg
2Download the app
PasteBuddy license key
License Key
License Key
••••••••••••••••
3Copy your key
Tip. Keep the email. Its portal link is how you download PasteBuddy again or find your key later, on this Mac or a new one.
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Step 2 of 6

Move it into Applications

Open PasteBuddy.dmg from Downloads. A window opens with PasteBuddy on the left and your Applications folder on the right.

PasteBuddy
PasteBuddy
Applications
Drag the icon onto the folder
  • Drag the PasteBuddy icon onto the Applications folder. It copies in a second.
  • Close the window, then eject the PasteBuddy disk from the Finder sidebar. You can delete the .dmg from Downloads afterwards.
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Step 3 of 6

Open PasteBuddy for the first time

The first time you open an app you downloaded from the web, macOS asks you to approve it in System Settings. It takes about a minute, and you only ever do it once.

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Open PasteBuddy from Applications

Open your Applications folder and double-click PasteBuddy, or press ⌘ Space and type “PasteBuddy”. macOS shows a short message. Click Done.

“PasteBuddy” Not Opened
DoneMove to Trash
1Click Done
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Approve it in System Settings

Click the Apple menu in the top-left corner and choose System Settings, then Privacy & Security. Scroll down to the Security section. You'll see a line about PasteBuddy. Click Open Anyway.

Privacy & Security
Location Services
Contacts
Calendars
Security
Allow applications from
“PasteBuddy”Open Anyway
2Scroll down, click Open Anyway
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Confirm and you're in

Use Touch ID or type your Mac's password. If macOS asks once more, click Open Anyway. PasteBuddy opens its welcome window, and from now on it opens like any other app.

System Settings
••••••••
3Touch ID or password
Open “PasteBuddy”?
Open Anyway
4If asked, confirm once more
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Step 4 of 6

Activate with your license key

The welcome window asks for your license key. It needs the internet once to activate, then works offline for good.

PasteBuddy is running 👋
It lives in your menu bar and quietly remembers everything you copy. Three things to know:
✓
Press ⌘⇧V from any app
Your clipboard history pops up.
2
Let PasteBuddy paste for you
Turn PasteBuddy on in the list that opens.
Open Accessibility settings
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Activate your license
Paste the key from your receipt email.
Paste your license keyActivate
1Paste your key, click Activate
  • Paste the key you copied from your customer portal (⌘ V). Lost it? Open the portal from your email again and click View next to PasteBuddy license key.
  • Click Activate. That's it: no account, no sign-in, and nothing to renew.
  • One key works on up to 3 of your Macs.
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Step 5 of 6

Let PasteBuddy paste for you

Pressing ↵ on a clip pastes it straight into the app you were using. For that, macOS needs your OK in the Accessibility list.

Stays on your Mac

Your clipboard history is never uploaded. PasteBuddy has no account and no tracking.

Only used to paste

Access lets PasteBuddy press ⌘V for you in the app you were using. Nothing else.

You can turn it off

Switch it off in the same Settings page any time.

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Click the button in the welcome window

It reads Open Accessibility settings and opens the right page in System Settings for you.

PasteBuddy is running 👋
It lives in your menu bar and quietly remembers everything you copy. Three things to know:
✓
Press ⌘⇧V from any app
Your clipboard history pops up.
2
Let PasteBuddy paste for you
Turn PasteBuddy on in the list that opens.
Open Accessibility settings
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Activate your license
Paste the key from your receipt email.
Paste your license keyActivate
1Click Open Accessibility settings
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Switch PasteBuddy on

Find PasteBuddy in the list and turn its switch on, then confirm with Touch ID or your password. If PasteBuddy isn't in the list, click + at the bottom and choose it from Applications.

Accessibility
Allow the applications below to control your computer.
RRaycast
PasteBuddy
Confirm with Touch ID or your password2Turn PasteBuddy on

Skipped this? PasteBuddy still works: ↵ copies the clip and you press ⌘ V yourself.

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Step 6 of 6

Copy a few things, then paste

PasteBuddy lives in your menu bar and remembers everything you copy from now on.

Tue 9:41 AM
⌘⇧V
1Press it in any app
Search clipboard…
See you at 4pm!Text · Messages
figma.com/design/q3-launchLink · Chrome
npm run devCode · VS Code
2Type to search, ↵ to paste
  • Copy a few things as you normally would: text, links, code, screenshots, files.
  • Press ⌘ ⇧ V in any app. Type to search, use the arrow keys, and press ↵ to paste.
  • Paste several in a row: press ⇧ ↵ on a few clips to queue them, then ⌃ ⌘ V pastes each next one.
  • Make it yours in Settings (click the menu bar icon): history size, launch at login, your own shortcut, excluded apps and more.

If something's not right

macOS says PasteBuddy is “damaged”+

That's macOS being cautious with apps from outside the App Store. Open Terminal, paste xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/PasteBuddy.app, press ↵, then open PasteBuddy again.

↵ copies but doesn't paste+

PasteBuddy needs Accessibility access to paste for you (step 5). If it's already on, switch PasteBuddy off and back on in the list. macOS sometimes forgets it after an update.

Activation fails+

Check you're online and that you pasted the whole key with no spaces. A key works on 3 Macs: to move it, open PasteBuddy's Settings on the old Mac and click Deactivate.

Nothing happens when I press ⌘⇧V+

Make sure PasteBuddy is running (its icon is in the menu bar). Another app may use the same shortcut: pick a different one in PasteBuddy's Settings.

I lost my email or key+

Email surendrapandar.work@gmail.com from the address you bought with and I'll send it again.

Still stuck?

Email me and I'll help you get set up. I read everything, usually within a day.

surendrapandar.work@gmail.com