v1.1.1 · windows · free
ClipBoi is a clipboard history app for Windows. It keeps everything you copy on your own disk, encrypted, and digs things back up even when all you remember is roughly what they meant. It doesn't phone home, because there's no home to phone.
ctrlshiftv summons the palette in the real app. It works on this page too, try it.
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how it feels
Copy a link, a screenshot, whatever the day demands. ClipBoi files it away in the background and works out what kind of thing it is while it's at it.
A small window floats up over whatever you were doing, with the search box focused and your recent copies listed underneath. Start typing.
Search is fuzzy by default and semantic if you turn that on, which means the general idea of what you copied is usually enough to find it.
The clip lands straight in the app you came from and the palette disappears. The whole exchange is over before your hands leave the keyboard.
what you get
entry 01 · search
A small embedding model runs on your machine, fully offline. Ask for sweet food and up comes the cake recipe you copied last week, even though neither word appears anywhere in it. The lookup happens on your own CPU, so results are instant.
a canned demo of a real query. in the app the model runs on everything you have ever copied.
entry 02 · screenshots
Screenshot a receipt in March and by April you can still find it by the invoice number printed in it, because OCR runs quietly on every image you copy. You never tag a thing.
screenshot · receipt_march.png
INVOICE No. 118 · PAID $46.20 · 03/16/2026
entry 03 · at rest
History is encrypted at rest with AES-256, and the key sits in Windows Credential Manager tied to your user account, which means the database only opens on your machine, logged in as you. Anyone who just grabs the file gets gibberish. Which is the point.
clipboi.db in a hex editor
the same file, opened in ClipBoi
simple white cake: 225g flour, 200g sugar, 3 eggs, 120ml milk, vanilla
entry 04 · secrets
When something you copy looks like a credential, an API key or a private key block, ClipBoi declines to record it at all. It never touches the database, and a secret that was never written down is a secret that can't leak out of a backup two years from now.
he doesn't fetch those.
entry 05 · optional AI
Paste your own Anthropic or OpenAI key into settings and clips grow little actions for summarizing, translating and fixing grammar. The feature stays off until you do that. When you use it, the one clip you picked goes to the provider you chose and the bill lands on your account, which makes this the single exception to nothing leaving your machine.
text · 2 min ago
hey, quick update on the migration: we hit a snag with the index rebuild but its handled, full writeup tomorow…
entries 06 to 14 · everything else
| snippets | saved boilerplate with text expansion. type the trigger, it unfolds. |
|---|---|
| paste stack | queue several clips, then pop them out in order with ctrlshiftenter. |
| drag shelf | an always-on-top strip. drag chips off it into any app. |
| sessions | history grouped into work bursts, so tuesday's rabbit hole stays findable. |
| profiles & tags | separate spaces, plus auto-tagging rules that do the filing for you. |
| copy as | JSON pretty, base64, URL encode and friends, applied on the way out. |
| command palette | ctrlk finds every action. pin your favorites to the navbar. |
| pins | pinned clips ride at the top of the palette, always one keystroke away. |
| languages | english and polish. |
dress code: optional
These swatches use the app's real token values, straight from its stylesheet. Type is approximated with the site's faces; the colors are exact.
clipboi
247 clips
cabin: warm lantern light with pixel type and scanlines. the default.
read this part
Think about what actually crosses your clipboard in a week: the password you cut out of a manager, a 2FA code, your home address, the salary figure you pasted into a spreadsheet and immediately regretted. Most clipboard managers ask you to trust a sync server with that stream. ClipBoi keeps it on your machine, which settles the question.
network traffic, by feature
| clips & history | nothing. stays on disk, encrypted. |
|---|---|
| semantic search | nothing. the model runs offline. |
| screenshot OCR | nothing. local, in the background. |
| telemetry | there isn't any. |
| update check | asks GitHub releases for the latest version. |
| AI actions | just the clip you picked, sent to your chosen provider. off until you add a key. |
who made this
ClipBoi exists because I kept copying things and then losing them, which felt like a dumb problem to still be having in this decade. So I started fixing it for myself one weekend, and the fix kept growing.
It's still that, with better manners. There's one developer here (hi, I'm lilran) and I'm building the clipboard app I actually want to live in, on Tauri 2 with Rust and React. The app is free; the code stays on my machine, same policy as your clipboard. If something annoys you, the issues tab is right there.
roadmap
woof.
One .msi from GitHub releases. It updates itself after that.
Download v1.1.1 for Windowsabout that SmartScreen warning
First launch, Windows SmartScreen will squint at you. It does that to any installer without a paid signing certificate, and ClipBoi earns exactly zero dollars to buy one with. Click More info, then Run anyway. The file comes straight from GitHub releases, the same place the auto-updater checks.
ClipBoi is free and stays free. If it earns a spot in your tray, you can buy the dog a treat:
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