I got tired of waiting.
Modern software development has become a race to the bottom. Today's "desktop apps" are just Chromium browsers wrapped in an Electron shell. They demand 800MB of your RAM just to render a login screen. They hijack your CPU, drain your MacBook's battery, and completely ignore the design language that makes macOS beautiful.
Pasty is my rejection of that philosophy.
When you press ⇧⌘V on your keyboard, you shouldn't have to wait for a cross-platform JavaScript parser to spin up. The menu should appear the exact microsecond your finger bottoms out the keys. It should feel deeply, intimately tied to the native Metal hardware of your Mac.
Pasty is written entirely in pure Swift. It doesn't phone home. It doesn't run aggressive background analytics. It consumes less than 35MB of RAM, caches to a locally encrypted AES-256 vault, and outputs a hardware-accelerated 120Hz ProMotion UI wrapped in authentic macOS Liquid Glass.
I obsess over every millisecond of latency, every pixel of blur radius, and every kilobyte of memory overhead so you never have to.
Enjoy the speed.
— Ina