Moving Paste to a new Mac and the Intel-app notice

If macOS shows an Intel-app notice, or you are moving to an Apple silicon Mac, nothing is lost: your clipboard history and pinboards live on your devices and, with sync on, in your private iCloud — and you do not need to buy Paste again.

About the Intel-app notice

The "Intel app" notice some users see is shown by macOS, not by Paste. Paste's current minimum is macOS 14, which still runs on Intel Macs, so the notice does not mean Paste has dropped support for your Mac. You can keep using Paste, and you can move to an Apple silicon Mac whenever you like without losing anything.

Your data is safe

Paste stores your Clipboard History and Pinboards on each device. If you have iCloud sync turned on, a copy also lives in your own private iCloud — never on third-party servers. So a notice about Intel support does not delete anything, and switching Macs does not leave your data behind.

For more on where this lives, see Where Paste stores your data.

Set up Paste on the new Mac

On your new Mac, install the current version of Paste and restore the purchase you already made:

Download and install the latest Paste for Mac from the same place you bought it (the App Store, our website, or Setapp).
If you bought from the App Store: sign in with the same Apple Account you purchased with, then press Restore in Paste. See Restoring purchases for details.
If you bought directly from our website: activate your license key on the new Mac. See Activate a Direct license.
If you use Setapp: sign in to the Setapp app on the new Mac and install Paste from there. Your access comes with your Setapp subscription.

You will not be charged again — restoring or activating brings back the access you already have.

Bring back your history and pinboards

Once Paste is installed and your purchase is restored, turn on iCloud sync to bring your content over:

On the new Mac, sign in to iCloud with the same Apple Account as your old Mac, then turn on sync in Paste Settings → General → iCloud sync.
Your Clipboard History and Pinboards download automatically. The first sync of a large history can take a few minutes — leave Paste open until it finishes, and a stable connection helps.

If sync was off on your old Mac and you need help bringing data across without it, Contact us and we can guide you through it.

Still stuck

If your data does not reappear, your purchase is not recognized, or you are unsure which license you have, Contact us. Let us know which Mac and Paste version you are on, where you bought Paste, and what you have already tried.