A Supaste alternative
at a third of the price
Is there a Supaste alternative with a free tier?
Supaste has no free tier. TypeFire is free to start, with your 10 most recent clips and every feature switched on, including screenshot text searched on device.
Pro is $18 once for three Macs, and it adds a snippet engine that no clipboard manager on its own offers.
Why people move from Supaste
The specific reasons people give for switching.
$29, sight unseen
There is no free tier and no trial, so evaluating Supaste means buying it. TypeFire is free to use indefinitely, which means you can find out whether a clipboard manager changes your day before spending anything.
One device per license
Supaste licenses cover a single Mac. TypeFire's $18 license covers up to three of your Macs, so a laptop and a desktop are the same purchase, restored by email.
No text expansion beyond inline shortcuts
Supaste has inline shortcuts that expand a trigger into saved text, which covers simple cases. It is not a snippet manager: no collections, no rich text editor, no dynamic tokens, no scripts, no import from TextExpander.
Some of the marketing is ahead of the app
Supaste ships a lot and iterates fast, which is genuinely impressive, but features arrive in updates after they appear in the pitch. Worth reading their roadmap and changelog before buying on a specific capability.
Cloud sync is part of the design
Both sync your clipboard through iCloud. TypeFire splits it across separate switches, one for clips, one for whether images and files travel with them, and one each for snippets and notes, so you can sync the text and still keep every screenshot on the machine that took it.
A clipboard manager, not a typing tool
If most of your repetition is typing rather than copying, a clipboard manager only solves half of it. TypeFire treats both as the same problem.
TypeFire compared with Supaste
Prices and capabilities as of September 2026.
| TypeFire | Supaste | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0, then $18 once | $29 one time |
| Free tier | Yes, 10 recent clips, permanent | No free tier |
| Devices per license | Up to 3 Macs | 1 Mac per purchase |
| Text expander | Yes, unlimited snippet manager | Inline shortcuts only |
| Save a clip as a reusable snippet | Yes, with an abbreviation | No |
| OCR search inside images | Yes, on-device, free tier | Yes |
| AI actions on clips | Yes, free tier | Yes, Apple Intelligence |
| AI rewriting in any app | Yes, Selection Prompts on Pro | No |
| Clipboard sync | Your own iCloud, per-stream switches | Yes, iCloud |
| Notch shelf | No | Yes |
| Color picker and screen text capture | No | Yes |
| Chrome extension | Yes, free | No |
| macOS required | 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon and Intel | 14 Sonoma or later |
Supaste pricing and features from supaste.com, August 2026. Supaste run an early-bird price from time to time, so check their site for the current figure.
What Supaste does better
Three of them, named plainly, with what TypeFire does instead directly below.
It is a better-looking app
Supaste picked up an Awwwards honorable mention and reached number 4 on Product Hunt, and both were deserved. The visual design, the notch shelf, and the overall craft are ahead of TypeFire's clipboard interface. If the app you look at twenty times a day being beautiful matters to you, that is a real reason to buy it.
More clipboard-adjacent utilities
Supaste bundles a screen color picker, on-screen text capture with a crosshair, quick notes, clip reminders with proper scheduling, and multi-clip cards. TypeFire has a simple remind-in-an-hour and does not have the color picker or the capture crosshair at all.
The notch shelf
Supaste's notch shelf turns the display notch into a tray you drop files and clips onto. TypeFire reaches the same result from the keyboard: Quick Paste on ⌘⌃2 opens a compact overlay beside your cursor, filters as you type, and pastes with Enter without you leaving the app.
What TypeFire adds
Not available in Supaste at any price.
A real snippet manager, not inline shortcuts
Collections and tags, a rich text and Markdown editor, dynamic tokens for dates and clipboard contents, nested snippets, per-snippet global hotkeys, script snippets in JavaScript and AppleScript, and importers from TextExpander and aText. All free and uncapped.
The clip-to-snippet loop
Right-click a clip, save it as a snippet, give it an abbreviation. Because there is a full snippet engine underneath, the promoted clip gets everything a snippet gets: collections, tokens, hotkeys, sync.
AI that edits what you are writing
Highlight text in any app, trigger a prompt by its abbreviation or its own shortcut, and rewrite, fix, translate or change the tone in place. Prompt Chains run several passes on one hotkey. Supaste can act on a clip; this acts on your current sentence.
A permanent free tier
Use the clipboard manager, with OCR search and AI actions, without paying. Ten clips is a genuine working limit rather than a teaser, and the text expander alongside it has no cap at all.
Runs on older Macs
macOS 13 Ventura and later, on Apple silicon and Intel. Supaste requires macOS 14 Sonoma, which rules out a fair number of still-perfectly-good machines.
A Chrome extension
Your snippets in every web app on any operating system, free. Useful if you are not always on the Mac.
Turn anything you copy into something you type
Right-click a clip, choose Save as snippet, give it an abbreviation. The thing you copied once becomes something you type three characters to get, forever. The same conversions run across all three surfaces: a clip becomes a note, and a note you keep rewriting becomes a snippet. Snippets, clips and notes live in one app, which is what makes each of those a single click rather than an export and an import.
- 01
Copy something
It lands in Clips alongside everything else you copied today.
- 02
Save as snippet
It leaves your rolling history and enters your permanent library.
- 03
Give it a trigger
Type
invfrom then on and never look it up again.
A clipboard manager you can tell what to ignore
A clipboard manager sees everything you copy. Until 4.0 the only control over that was a password-manager exclusion you could not see. There are three now, none of them gated, and the limits of the strongest one are stated rather than buried.
Turn image capture off
One switch. Text keeps being captured and pictures stop. Images you have already saved are kept rather than deleted, which is not what most people expect a privacy toggle to do, so it is worth saying.
Name apps to skip
Add any application and TypeFire ignores what you copy in it. Choose from the apps it has already seen, with clip counts, or browse to any app on your Mac. Each app gets one of three settings: allow it, block images only, or block everything you copy there. The middle one is what most people want for a work tool, keeping the text and losing the screenshots.
The password managers, now visible
TypeFire has always ignored password managers. That list is in Settings now, twenty-three apps including 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePassXC, Dashlane and Apple Passwords, blocked by bundle ID in code rather than by a setting you have to find. It shows which of them you have installed, and any one can be overridden.
Encrypted on your Mac
Clips are stored in an encrypted database on your Mac. The key is generated on your machine and kept in the macOS Keychain. Images sit beside it, readable only by your own account.
Secrets expire in minutes
Card numbers and high-entropy strings are detected and deleted after five minutes by default, adjustable in Settings. Everything else follows the retention you choose.
An on-device AI option
Apple Intelligence and local models through Ollama or LM Studio run entirely on your machine. If you pick Claude, OpenAI, or Gemini instead, text goes to that provider directly; TypeFire operates no server in that path.
Where blocking by app stops being a guarantee
macOS does not tell an application which other application wrote to the clipboard. TypeFire matches on the app that was in front at the time, plus any app that identifies itself using the standard convention. That covers the overwhelming majority of real cases and it is not absolute. The protection that does not depend on a guess is the concealed-content marker: password managers mark what they copy, and TypeFire never stores it whatever else is set.
The app list also covers what you copy, not screenshots you save as a file. A PNG on your desktop records nothing about what was on screen, so TypeFire matches those to an app where it can and skips them when it does. It is right in the ordinary case and it is not a promise: to keep saved screenshots out entirely, turn off Save screenshots to Clips.
Eighteen dollars. Once.
TypeFire Pro is a single payment that unlocks unlimited clips, Selection Prompts, Prompt Chains, notes sync, note version history and saving from AI apps through MCP. There is no subscription and no per-seat pricing.
Free tier, then one payment
No free tier at all
One time
No free tier
One time
Lifetime, or $3.99/mo
Five snippets free, then a subscription
Supaste is $29 for one Mac with nothing to try first. TypeFire is $0 to start, $18 once for unlimited, and not locked to a device.
The graph is free, and it needs nothing
Press ` and TypeFire draws every note, snippet and clip on one canvas, using the links, tags and folders already in your files. Nothing to download and nothing to switch on. A connection you made is drawn solid, one TypeFire worked out is drawn dashed.
Turn on Weave and search starts matching what you meant rather than the exact words you typed. It runs on your Mac, with no account and nothing uploaded.
Moving from Supaste
Still not answered?
No. Supaste has an Awwwards honorable mention and a Product Hunt number 4 finish, and its interface, notch shelf, and overall craft are ahead of TypeFire's clipboard views.
Where TypeFire is ahead is what the app can do: a full snippet manager rather than inline shortcuts, in-place AI editing of text you are writing, a permanent free tier, and $18 instead of $29. If the deciding factor is which app is more beautiful, buy Supaste.
No. Supaste's notch shelf, where you drag files and clips into a tray that lives in the display notch, is one of its nicest ideas and TypeFire does not have an equivalent.
TypeFire's answer to the same problem is Quick Paste on ⌘⌃2: a compact overlay that appears next to your cursor, filters as you type, and pastes with Enter without you leaving the app you are in. Different approach, and the notch shelf is better for drag-and-drop specifically.
Supaste has both as separate utilities and TypeFire has neither as a standalone tool.
TypeFire does recognize a copied hex value as a color and lets you convert it between HEX, RGB, HSL, and CMYK, and it runs OCR on every image it captures so screenshots are searchable by their contents. What it does not have is a screen sampler for picking a color from anywhere on your display, or a crosshair for grabbing text out of a region of the screen.
Yes. Clip sync runs through your own iCloud Drive behind its own switch, with a second switch for whether images and files travel too, so you decide exactly what leaves the machine.
There is no TypeFire server in the middle: clips live in an encrypted database whose key is generated on your Mac and kept in the Keychain. Snippets and notes each have their own switch as well, so the three streams are independent. Your 10 most recent clips sync free, and Pro carries the rest.
Supaste is $29 for one Mac, sometimes discounted to $15 as an early-bird offer, with no free tier and no trial.
TypeFire is free to keep using, with a clipboard manager capped at 10 recent clips plus an unlimited text expander, and $18 once to remove the cap and add Selection Prompts and Chains. The $18 license covers up to three of your Macs, so your laptop and your desktop are one purchase.
The larger difference is that you can evaluate TypeFire for as long as you like before paying anything.
Pick Supaste if you want the best-looking clipboard manager on the Mac, if the notch shelf or the color picker matter to you, or if the color picker is the deciding factor.
Pick TypeFire if most of your repetition is typing rather than copying, if you want AI that edits the sentence you are currently writing, if you would rather try before buying, or if $18 versus $29 is the deciding factor. They are genuinely different products that overlap on clipboard history.
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