clipon.
$ clipon --history --stack --snippets --paste
A full clipboard manager: clipon remembers everything you copy — text, images, files, links and colors — and brings it back searchable on one shortcut. With paste stack, snippets and rules, the history encrypted locally. Native for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Try it now — beta
The beta is out — for macOS, Windows and Linux. Lean, native, with signed in-app updates: read the changelog first, or just let it update itself. History, overlay and paste stack grow in with each update. clipon pinned follows later.
// Beta means: the foundation today, history, overlay and paste stack arrive as updates. If macOS says “damaged”, it’s only missing notarization — one line in Terminal fixes it: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/clipon.app
All versions & details on GitHub →A clipboard that remembers
// history, stack, snippets — one shortcut
The Mac has elegant history apps, Windows ships half an attempt of its own, Linux has solid open-source helpers — but hardly any of them does everything, and none does it equally well on all three systems. clipon takes the best interaction ideas from all three worlds — as one native app.
// overlay
One shortcut, everything there
Hit the hotkey, type, Enter — pasted. The overlay appears right where you work: fuzzy search, previews for images and files, fully usable without a mouse.
// history
Photographic memory
Text, rich text, images, files, links and colors — every entry with source app, timestamp and full-text search. Pinned items stay; the rest cleans itself up by your rules.
// stack
Paste stack & sequences
Copy several items in a row and paste them back in order — one by one on a shortcut, or all at once, as a list or merged. Formatted or as plain text.
// the LAN-SOLO way
Native & honest
No Electron bloat, no forced account, no telemetry: the history lives encrypted on your device — and password managers are ignored automatically.
// And since we keep it honest: the clipboard is a sensitive place. What clipon should never see, it never sees — with a rule per app, per format, or paused entirely.
Features
// planned for version 1.0
History with full-text search
Every entry with preview, source app and timestamp — searchable back to day one. Pin what should stay; cleanup rules for the rest.
All formats
Text and rich text, images, files and folders, links and colors — code is detected and shown with syntax highlighting. Paste formatted or as plain text, your call.
Paste stack
Copy many, paste in order: the stack collects entries and hands them back one by one, as a list or merged — ideal for forms and research.
Private by default
The history is encrypted locally. Entries from password managers and content marked as confidential are skipped automatically — plus exclusion rules per app.
Snippets with variablespinned
Text building blocks with placeholders, dates and input fields — organized in libraries, triggered by shortcut or keyword.
Sync, end-to-endpinned
History, pins and snippets in sync across devices — end-to-end encrypted via your own storage (a folder, iCloud/Dropbox or WebDAV). No forced cloud.
Pricing
// history & stack for free — pinned syncs
Free
Remember, find, paste
- Unlimited history with full-text search and previews
- All formats: text, images, files, links, colors
- Paste stack, pins and paste as plain text
- Exclusion rules — password managers ignored automatically
- History encrypted locally
- Native for macOS, Windows and Linux — no account, no telemetry
pinned
In sync, with building blocks
- Everything in Free
- End-to-end encrypted sync across devices
- Snippet libraries with variables and placeholders
- Rules with transformations (case, formats, trim)
- OCR: copy text out of images in your history — locally
- Priority updates
Free stays free — for good, no strings attached. clipon pinned: €12 a year, that’s €1 a month. Incl. VAT, billed yearly, cancel anytime.
// Honest as always: operating systems protect the clipboard for good reason. Direct pasting needs a one-time accessibility permission on macOS, and Wayland is stricter than X11 — clipon documents both instead of hiding it.