A fast, cross-platform clipboard manager that remembers everything you copy and keeps it encrypted on your own machine. Search your full history instantly, paste from anywhere, and never ship a single byte to a cloud or sync server.
# run the background daemon clipman daemon --encrypt # open the history picker (bind to a hotkey) clipman pick
The system clipboard holds exactly one item and loses it the moment you copy the next. Most "clipboard history" tools fix that by syncing your copies — passwords, tokens, snippets — through a cloud you don't control. clipman keeps the convenience without the trade-off: a persistent, searchable history that lives entirely on your device, encrypted at rest, with a footprint small enough to forget it's running.
Type a few characters to find any past copy — text, links, code, or images — and paste it back in a keystroke. No scrolling through a stack.
History is written to an encrypted local database, so sensitive copies aren't sitting in plaintext on disk. Nothing leaves your machine — there is no account and no sync.
Written in Rust as a lean daemon, clipman sits near a megabyte of memory when idle — light enough to run on every machine without a second thought.
First-class support for modern Linux compositors, plus cross-platform desktop builds via Tauri — so it feels native wherever you run it.
Pin the snippets you reuse, exclude apps you don't want recorded, and let old entries expire on a schedule so the history stays relevant.
Bind the picker to a global hotkey and drive everything from the keyboard — built for people who don't want to reach for the mouse to paste.
A lightweight background daemon listens for clipboard changes through native compositor APIs and captures each new copy without polling.
Every entry is written to an encrypted on-disk database with its type and metadata, so history survives reboots while staying protected at rest.
The picker opens on your hotkey with a fuzzy search box over the full history — text, images, and links — ranked by recency and pins.
Select an entry and clipman restores it to the system clipboard and pastes into the focused app — all without your data ever leaving the machine.
Install the daemon, bind a hotkey, and never lose a copy again — privately, on your own hardware.
github.com/alikaya/clipman