Pasteboard Viewer

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Inspect the system pasteboards on macOS.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source (MIT)

Application type

Clipboard Manager

Origin

Norway

Platforms

Mac
iPhone
iPad

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Developed by
Sindre Sorhus
Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
Written in
Swift
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Supported Languages
- English

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Development, Office & Productivity, Online Services

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Updated Sep 13, 2025
4.94 avg rating

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853 Stars
40 Forks
5 Open Issues
Updated Mar 30, 2026

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Pasteboard Viewer was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Mar 10, 2020 and this page was last updated Mar 7, 2024.

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What is Pasteboard Viewer?

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, and images.

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.