A Dynamic Island for your desktop clipboard.
Clipz lives in a floating notch at the top of your screen. It captures everything you copy, categorizes it, sets timed reminders, and encrypts what matters.
4 MB · Windows 10 / 11 · Rust + Tauri · MIT
How it works
Five partsEvery copy, without the overhead.
A native Rust process listens directly to OS clipboard events. Text, links, code, and credentials are picked up the instant they land, then classified before touching disk.
- Native clipboardFormatListener API
- Rust core with less than 1% idle CPU
- Auto-classified: text, code, link, secret, image, reminder
Sub-millisecond search over your history.
Everything you copy is indexed in a local SQLite FTS5 table. Type in the notch and results narrow as fast as you press keys, across 100k rows without a spinner.
- SQLite FTS5 full-text search index
- Category filter tabs, keyboard-driven
- Paste back with Enter or Ctrl/Cmd + 1..9
Credentials that clean up after themselves.
Anything the classifier marks as sensitive is sealed with native system Data Protection APIs and dropped from RAM 60 seconds after capture. No cloud, no account, no telemetry.
- Native DPAPI, keyed to active user session
- Plaintext scrubbed from RAM after 60s
- Local-only SQLite DB, zero network calls
- 0.00scapturedWin32 clipboard event
- 0.01sclassifiedmatches secret heuristic
- 0.02ssealedDPAPI encrypt to disk
- 0.02s60s RAM TTLPlaintext active in buffer
Extract text from screenshots automatically.
Copying an image or taking a screenshot? Clipz runs a fast, local OCR engine on-device to extract text from images in real time. Search text inside diagrams, receipts, or code screenshots instantly.
- 100% local on-device OCR processing
- Instant text extraction from copied screenshots & images
- Indexed automatically in SQLite FTS5 for search
SERVER_PORT=8080 SSL_CERT=/etc/ssl/cert.pem
Star favorites, pin clips, and set timed reminders.
Mark your most used snippets, server links, and notes as Favorites for instant 1-click access. Pin crucial clips to the top of your notch or set timed reminders so Clipz pops up right when you need it.
- Star favorite clips for permanent quick access
- 1-click clip pinning and custom snooze timers
- Native desktop notifications on trigger
Try it, right here.
Live playgroundThe notch below is the exact component running live. Click any action button below to simulate a Win32 clipboard event and watch it get captured, classified, and indexed instantly.
Security model
Four mechanismsClipboards leak. They sit in RAM, they persist across app crashes, they are trivially readable by any process that asks. Clipz treats anything the classifier marks as sensitive with a different set of rules than the rest of your history.
- i
DPAPI at rest
Sensitive rows are encrypted with native system Data Protection APIs before touching disk. Keys are derived from your user session: nothing to configure and zero cloud dependencies.
- ii
60-second RAM TTL
Plaintext for anything flagged as secret is zeroed from process memory 60 seconds after capture. The encrypted record stays; the readable copy does not linger.
- iii
No network by default
The app has no telemetry, no crash reporter, no auto-updater phone-home. History lives in a single SQLite file in your local AppData.
- iv
Auditable source
The Rust core, the classifier heuristics, and the DPAPI wrapper are all in the public repository under MIT. Read them, fork them, patch them.
Keyboard first.
Twelve shortcutsNavigation
- Navigate clips↑+↓
- Cycle category filterTab
- Focus instant searchCtrl / ⌘+F
- Collapse notchEsc
Actions
- Paste selectionEnter
- Set clip reminderCtrl / ⌘+R
- Pin snippet to topCtrl / ⌘+P
- Delete itemDel / ⌥+⌫
Global
- Summon Clipz notchCtrl / ⌘+Shift+V
- Quick-paste nth itemCtrl / ⌘+1..9
- Open Reminders listCtrl / ⌘+Shift+R
- PreferencesCtrl / ⌘+,