Pasteboard Viewer 4+

Name: Pasteboard Viewer
Rating: 4.9 (79 reviews)
Author: Sindre Sorhus

Inspect the system pasteboards

Sindre Sorhus

- 4.9 • 79 Ratings

- Free

Description

Inspect the system pasteboards while developing your app.

This is a developer utility that lets you inspect the various system pasteboards. This can be useful to ensure your app is putting the correct data on NSPasteboard. The app refreshes the pasteboard contents live and can preview text, RTF, images, and anything that has a Quick Look preview.

Note that this is not a clipboard manager. If you're not a Mac developer, you probably don't want this app.

You can make the window always stay in front by enabling “Stay in Front” in the “Window” menu.

Use the up/down arrow keys to switch between the pasteboard items.

It hides obsolete system pasteboard types that have modern equivalents. This includes `CorePasteboardFlavorType`, `NSStringPboardType`, `NSFilenamesPboardType`, etc.

Tip: Right-click an item in the sidebar to copy the type identifier.

Support: Click the “Send Feedback…” menu item in the “Help” menu in the app.

Jan 19, 2025

Version 2.10.0

- The app now requires macOS 15. You can get the last macOS 14 compatible version from the app's website.

4.9 out of 5

79 Ratings

Exactly what I needed

This app is a godsend, showing the different items on the clipboard, in the different formats. Super helpful when debugging pasteboard functionality.

Does one thing extremely well

An essential tool for drag/drop and copy/paste debugging.

Love it

Does what it says and does it beautifully. Nice, standard UI, nothing fancy. Possibly the most perfect piece of software ever to exist.

The developer, Sindre Sorhus, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.