A clipboard manager you can actually read the source of. Under 1,000 lines, no telemetry, no cloud — just your clipboard, remembered.
Superclip sits quietly in your system tray. Copy things as normal. Hit a hotkey, and your recent clipboard history shows up in a small window. Search, pin, and paste anything you've copied — instantly.
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Download the latest build for your OS from Releases and run the installer (Windows .exe, macOS .dmg, Linux AppImage/DEB/RPM).
On Wayland sessions (GNOME, KDE, Sway, …) Superclip shells out to a couple of standard tools for clipboard access and synthetic paste, because the Wayland security model forbids apps from injecting input or reading the selection directly.
# Debian / Ubuntu / Mint
sudo apt install wl-clipboard ydotool
# Enable the ydotool daemon so Superclip can auto-paste
sudo systemctl enable --now ydotoold
sudo usermod -aG input $USER # log out and back in after thisydotool setup is optional — clipboard history still works without it,
you'll just need to press Ctrl+V yourself after picking an item. X11 packages
include xclip (for lossless image serving) and xdotool (for auto-paste);
they are declared for Debian packages and should be installed by other Linux
package managers when building from source.
- Background clipboard watcher — captures text and image copies automatically, deduplicated
- Global hotkey —
Ctrl+Shift+Vopens the history from any app - Instant search — fuzzy filter across your whole history as you type, images included by filename
- Image support — screenshots, copied pictures, and image files are kept as PNGs and paste back at full quality
- Preview pane — the selected item is previewed beside the list: images with their dimensions and size, text and code with their full content
- Paste anywhere — paste the selected item back into the app you were in
- Pin favorites — keep frequently used snippets from scrolling off, pinned above recent history
- Auto-purge — history caps at 100 items by default, oldest items drop off
- Auto-updates — signed, checked on demand from the tray, with an opt-in beta channel
- Runs at login — starts quietly into the system tray
- Local-only — no accounts, no sync, no network calls
- Cross-platform — Windows, Linux, and macOS
- Tiny footprint — native Tauri app, ~10–15MB, low idle RAM
Most clipboard managers are either bloated Electron apps or push cloud sync you never wanted. Superclip is built with Tauri: a native app with a ~10–15MB footprint, low idle RAM, and no background telemetry. History metadata lives in a local JSON file and image payloads live beside it; neither leaves your machine.
git clone https://github.com/anyscapelabs/superclip.git
cd superclip
bun install
bun run tauri dev # run in development
bun run tauri build # produce a release binary- Launch Superclip — it starts quietly in your system tray (and on login).
- Copy something, anywhere.
- Press
Ctrl+Shift+Vto open your history. - Start typing to search; use arrows to navigate, Enter to paste.
- Hover an item and click the pin, or press
Ctrl+P, to keep it forever. - Right-click the tray icon to open Superclip, check for updates, or quit.
- A background thread polls the OS clipboard every ~500ms and hashes each entry to detect changes — via
arboardplus boundedxclipfallbacks on X11, andwl-pasteon Wayland. - New entries are appended to a JSON history file in the app's local data directory.
- Paste focuses the window you were in and synthesizes
Ctrl+V(viaxdotool/XTEST on X11,ydotool/uinputon Wayland, SendKeys on Windows, System Events on macOS) with focus verification and retry. - Text vs code is detected heuristically in the backend.
- Signed updates are checked on demand; stable pulls GitHub's latest release manifest, and the opt-in beta channel pulls a rolling pre-release manifest instead.
- The frontend is plain React + Tailwind talking to the Rust backend through Tauri's command API.
- A global shortcut (via
tauri-plugin-global-shortcut) toggles the window without needing focus.
- Clipboard history with search and pinning
- Reliable paste into the app you came from
- Signed auto-updates
- Auto-start into the tray
- Image clipboard support (screenshots, copied images)
- Optional encryption at rest for sensitive entries
- Per-item expiry (auto-delete after N minutes)
- Terminal paste (X11 PRIMARY / middle-click)
- Configurable hotkey
Superclip never sends data anywhere. There is no analytics, no cloud sync. Your clipboard history lives in a single local file you can open, inspect, or delete at any time. The only network call is the optional auto-update check.
Pull requests are welcome. For anything beyond a small fix, please open an issue first to discuss the change. Keep additions consistent with the project's goal: small, readable, and dependency-light.
See CHANGELOG.md.