Clipboard history for Windows

Everything you copy, tacked where you need it.

Cliptack keeps your clipboard history on your machine and nowhere else. Press one shortcut to find anything you've copied, reshape it on the way out, or pin it to your screen.

Free · MIT licenceWindows 10 & 11 · 64-bit .msiAll releasesOpen it with Ctrl+Shift+V
Live demo — type, arrow, press Enter, or tack a clip
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↵ pasteCtrl+↵ copy⤢ tack to screenall demo data
Note
Drag me.
Then tack a clip from the list — it floats over this page like a real sticky.

The film

See it in thirty-four seconds.

Motion graphics built from the app's own colours and layout.All clips shown are demo data.
What it does

A clipboard that keeps up with you.

Windows remembers the last thing you copied. Cliptack remembers all of it, and makes it fast to get back from the keyboard.

Search like a developer

Prefix search over everything, plus operators when you want them: app:Code type:code is:pinned folder:work sort:used "exact phrase". A pasted URL is never mistaken for an operator.

0.02%CPU, idle
31MBmemory, idle

Quiet

Measured, not estimated. It sits in the tray and stays out of the way.

{"name":"cliptack","ok":true}
→
{
  "name": "cliptack",
  "ok": true
}

Paste as

Ctrl+T prettifies or minifies JSON, decodes base64, URL-encodes, and changes case. Only the paste changes; the history keeps what you actually copied, key order included.

git push origin main
☐ call back at 4

Tack it to your screen

Ctrl+O pops a clip — a snippet, an image, a colour — into a small card that stays on top, instantly. Ctrl+Shift+N starts a blank one, and the tray hides them all at once. Notes stay editable in the card, and cards come back after a restart.

AllWork Alt+1Snippets Alt+2NotesCredsPinned

Notes, folders, pins

Write formatted notes — lists, checklists, code, links — file anything into folders, and pin what you keep reaching for.

meeting notes.txtsaved
#7aa2f7saved

Password-manager copies are skipped

Anything a password manager marks private is never recorded.

DarkLightSystem

Yours to tune

Theme, accent colour, the open shortcut, and whether it saves everything or only what you choose.


Private by design

Your clipboard sees everything. So it stays on your machine.

Passwords, addresses, half-written messages: a clipboard history is a record of everything you've handled. Cliptack treats it that way.

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Nothing leaves your machine.

The code makes no network calls, and no dependency that opens a socket is included. No account, no sync, no telemetry.

Password ••••••••✓ pasted
Message ✕ refused
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Passwords paste only into password fields.

Saved credentials are encrypted with Windows DPAPI. Ctrl+Shift+Enter pastes one only after Windows UI Automation confirms the focused box is a password field. Anything else, and nothing is sent.

● You are presenting
not captured
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Hidden from screen shares.

On by default, the panel and every sticky are excluded from screen capture, so your history never turns up in a meeting.


Keyboard first

Never reach for the mouse.

Every action has a key. The open shortcut can be rebound in Settings.

Show or hide the panel, from anywhereCtrlShiftV
Paste into the window you came fromEnter
Copy without pastingCtrlEnter
Paste as…CtrlT
Tack to the screenCtrlO
New note, straight onto the screenCtrlShiftN
Pin or unpinCtrlP
Move to a folderCtrlM
Filter by folderAlt1–9
Delete, then undoCtrl⌫ CtrlZ
New credentialCtrlK
Paste a password, guardedCtrlShiftEnter

Not taken on trust

Checked by running it.

121automated tests: classifier, query parser, transforms, crypto, migrations
~30behaviours verified by driving the real app on Windows 11
Get it

Free. Open source. Yours.

Run the installer. It isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn you: choose More info → Run anyway.
Copy things as usual. Cliptack lives in the tray and keeps what you copy.
Press Ctrl+Shift+V anywhere to get it all back.