What people use HandyPaste for
HandyPaste keeps the text you type again and again and pastes it into any app on your Mac with ⌥⌘V. What that text is depends on you. These pages show the most common uses, with snippets you can copy.
Canned responses
For support, sales and anyone who answers the same questions every day. Keep your best replies in folders instead of a Google Doc, and paste them into Gmail, a help desk or Slack with the customer's name and order number filled in.
An AI prompt library
Keep the prompts you've refined in one place and paste them into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other app, with what you copied and the blanks filled in.
Your snippets in Claude
With Pro, Claude Desktop, Claude Code and other MCP apps can search, fill in and save your snippets, and your Prompts folder becomes their prompts.
Private snippets, without keystroke monitoring
HandyPaste never watches what you type. It needs no Input Monitoring, has no account or server, and acts only when you press its shortcut.
More ideas
- Email: sign-offs, signatures, follow-ups and out-of-office replies.
- Forms: your name, email, phone and address in every field, with Tab between them. Questions and forms
- Developers: commit messages, pull request templates and Terminal commands.
- Everyday details: addresses, your company details for invoices, links you share often.
Ready-made snippets for all of these are in the snippet examples, which you can import in one go. Wondering how HandyPaste compares with TextExpander, Raycast or macOS Text Replacements? See HandyPaste compared.