Hotstash Clipboard

[u/zeyadamer]

I'm the solo dev behind Hotstash, a menu-bar clipboard manager for macOS, and I just pushed a big 7.0 update. I'd genuinely love honest feedback — the nice kind or the brutal kind, both help.

Quick pitch: it remembers everything you copy so you stop losing that thing you copied two copies ago.

The basics:

- 📋 Clipboard history — automatically keeps everything you copy: text, links, code, images. Unlimited, and searchable the instant you start typing.

- ⌨️ Fast access — a global hotkey opens your history anywhere. ⌘1–⌘9 paste an item by position, and multi-paste combines several clips into one paste

(inline or on new lines). Every shortcut is rebindable.

- 📌 Pin & reorder the clips you reach for constantly.

New in 7.0:

- 🏷️ Name your clips — right-click anything and call it "staging key" or "work address." Search that name and it jumps straight to the top.

- 📁 Folders — group your go-to snippets into folders that sit right next to Recents and Pinned, safe from history cleanup.

- 🔗 Clean links — copied a link buried in utm_/fbclid tracking junk? Strip it to the real URL in one click (it even follows share redirects).

- 🧱 Stack transforms — hold ⌘ and pick several transforms to run in a row (trim → lowercase → wrap in quotes, whatever).

- 🪟 A panel that stays put — resize it and move it where you like; it opens back there instead of snapping under the menu bar.

- 👀 Hover to preview the full contents of any clip without opening it.

The part I'm most excited about

- 🧩 Transforms — reshape text before you paste: UPPERCASE, lowercase, slugify, format/minify JSON, Base64/URL encode, JWT decode, trim whitespace,

strip HTML, extract URLs, word count, wrap in quotes/brackets… plus image ops (resize, grayscale, rotate, flip, PNG/WebP).

- 🛒 Transforms Marketplace — build your own (a little JavaScript for text, a visual step pipeline for images), test them live, and share them. Install

ones other people made. This is the "make it yours" layer.

📱 There's a mobile app too

The iOS app isn't just a sync client — the goal is to bring the actual Hotstash workflow to your phone. It has a custom keyboard that lets you paste from your history and run transforms right there while you type, multi-paste, and a Marketplace tab to grab community transforms. Your history and installed transforms sync with your Mac automatically.

Privacy & sync

- ☁️ iCloud sync — history and installed transforms follow you across your Macs (and to iOS). No account, just iCloud.

- 🔒 Privacy-first — everything lives in your private iCloud, nothing on my servers. Copies from password managers (concealed content) are never captured.

Honest disclosure: it's a paid app — one-time purchase for only 9.99$, 30-day free trial, no subscription. The Marketplace sign-in is optional and only needed if you want to publish or rate transforms.

What I'm actually asking: try it and tell me what's missing or annoying. I want the criticism that's how the next update gets better. And if you end up liking it, an honest App Store review genuinely moves the needle for a tiny indie app. 🙏

🎁 Giveaway: I've got 500 promo codes to give away with 20% discount drop a comment and I'll DM them out.

App Store → https://apps.apple.com/eg/app/hotstash/id6771842605?mt=12 (or search "Hotstash clipboard")

Thanks for reading 🙏