Pastry is a Spotlight-style clipboard manager for macOS with semantic search — find a clip by what it meant, not just the exact words you typed. Everything runs locally on your Mac.
Install
- Download
Pastry.dmgbelow. - Open it and drag Pastry into Applications.
- First launch only: right-click Pastry in Applications → Open → click Open in the dialog.
macOS shows that prompt once because the app isn't from the App Store. Every launch after is a normal double-click. No Python, no terminal, no setup — the app bundles its own search engine and model, and works offline immediately.
Requirements
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later
- Apple Silicon (M1 or newer)
- Intel Mac? Install from source — see the README.
How to use
- Press ⌘⇧V anywhere to open Pastry (configurable in Settings).
- Type what you remember — "that postgres query", "mike's address" — and semantic search surfaces the clip even when it shares no words with your search.
- ↑/↓ + Enter to copy, ⌘1–⌘9 to grab a result instantly, ⌘P to pin.
- The clipboard icon in the menu bar shows engine status and Settings.
Privacy
100% local — no accounts, no network calls. All your data lives in ~/.pastry; delete that folder to wipe everything.