These two apps are both good, and they are built on opposite answers to one question: should your clipboard follow you between devices?
PastePal says yes. It runs on Mac, iPhone and iPad, and iCloud carries your clips between them. Tucket says no, on purpose. It is a Mac app that keeps everything on that Mac, and spends its effort on what it can do with a copy once it has it.
I build Tucket, so read this the way you would read anything written by the maker. I have kept to facts you can check, and I say plainly below where PastePal is the better buy.
What each one is for
PastePal is a universal pasteboard. Copy on your Mac, paste on your phone. It also carries a large set of text tools: over 75 transforms for changing case, formatting JSON, encoding Base64, hashing and sorting. If you spend your day reshaping text and moving it between your own devices, that is a lot of value for one payment.
Tucket is a Mac clipboard that understands what you copied. It sorts every copy by type as it arrives, reads the words inside your screenshots so you can search them later, and pastes a set of images as one laid out mood board. It never uploads a clip, because there is nowhere for it to go.
| Tucket | PastePal | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $10 once, up to 3 Macs | Free, Pro is $14.99 once |
| Runs on | Mac | Mac, iPhone, iPad |
| Syncs between devices | No | Yes, over iCloud |
| Clips leave your machine | Never | With iCloud sync on |
| Reads text inside screenshots | Yes | No |
| Paste several images as one mood board | Yes | No |
| Text transforms built in | No | Over 75 |
| Sorts copies by type automatically | Yes | Collections you make |
| Skips passwords from password managers | Yes | No |
| Needs macOS | 14 or later | 14 or later |
Checked on 27 September 2026 from each product's own App Store listing and site. Prices and features move, so check before you buy.
Where PastePal wins
If you copy on one device and paste on another, this is not a close call. Tucket cannot do it and is not going to: syncing would mean your clipboard leaving your Mac, and that is the one promise the app is built around. PastePal does it, on hardware you already own, for a single payment.
The text transforms are the other real gap. Tucket has Quick Edit for trimming a clip before you paste it, and that is all. It will not convert your case or pretty print your JSON.
Where Tucket wins
Everything after the copy. Tucket files each clip by what it is, so colours sit with colours and SVGs with SVGs, and you never made a folder. It reads screenshots as they arrive, which is why searching for the wording in an error message finds the picture of it. Select a few images and paste them as one arranged board, which lands as editable vectors in Figma and as a picture everywhere else.
It also refuses to store things it should not. Copies that your password manager marks as confidential are skipped before Tucket reads a byte, and around 220 kinds of API key and token are recognised and left out.
Which should you buy
Buy PastePal if your clipboard needs to be on your phone, or if text transforms are part of your daily work.
Buy Tucket if everything you do happens on the Mac, you work with images, colours and vectors, and you would rather your clipboard history never existed anywhere but your own disk.
Questions
Can Tucket sync my clipboard to my iPhone?
No, and it is not planned. Syncing would mean sending what you copy to a server or to iCloud, and Tucket is built so that never happens. If you need that, PastePal does it well.
Is PastePal a subscription?
No. PastePal is free to download, and its Pro features are a one-time $14.99 purchase. Tucket is a one-time $10 purchase covering up to three Macs.
Does either app read the text inside screenshots?
Tucket does, on your Mac, for every image you copy, so you can search a screenshot by the words in it. PastePal does not list text recognition among its features.
Can I try Tucket before paying?
There is no free tier. It is ten dollars once, and if it is not for you, email me within 10 days and I will refund you in full.
Do I need a new licence for my second Mac?
No. One Tucket purchase covers three Macs at a time, and you can free a slot from Settings if you replace a machine.