BoardClip

Everything you copy, one keystroke away.

BoardClip keeps the text and images you copy in a small popup you can search and paste from. It is free, open source, and your history stays on your own disk.

WinV
Open the popup. On a Mac: CmdShiftV
Type
Search titles and text, or filter with group: is: since:
Enter
Paste the selected clip into the app you were using
Numpad 1-9
Paste a numpad slot without opening the popup. On a Mac: CmdOption1-9
WinN
A new note, from any app. On a Mac: record a shortcut in Settings

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Installer builds are published from the open-source repo.

Live demo Copy any text on this page and it lands here. Click a clip to copy it.

The real popup with sample clips. Right-click a clip for its menu, or try a search:

What it does

Search with filters
Plain words match titles and text, exactly as typed. Filters narrow the list, and a right-click excludes one. Turn on Regex and what you type becomes a /pattern/; OR, brackets and every filter work as text too.
Numpad quick-paste
Give up to nine clips a numpad slot from their menu. Pressing the key pastes that clip straight into the app you are in, and whatever was on your clipboard is put back afterwards.
Pins, groups and titles
Pinned clips never expire. A clip can sit in several groups (type work, api to add both), and any clip can carry a title, so a snippet you keep reads as a note rather than a fragment.
Images
Screenshots and copied images are kept next to your text. Open one in the image viewer, or drag it out of the list into another app as a file.
Editor and Unify
Text clips open in a built-in editor that saves as you go. Select a few near-identical clips and Unify folds them into one, with a three-pane merge view for the parts that differ.
Sync between your computers
Computers on the same network, or on the same Tailscale network, sync with each other directly over an encrypted connection. A Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud folder you already use carries changes too. There is no BoardClip account and no BoardClip server.
AI access, off by default
Turn it on and AI apps such as Claude, Cursor or VS Code can read the groups you choose to share, through an MCP server that runs on your own computer. Reading anything else, editing or deleting asks you first.
Windows and macOS
Windows, and macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel. A Linux AppImage is built from the same source. MIT licensed; your history is plain files in the app's folder.

Private by design

A clipboard holds passwords, addresses and half-written messages, so none of it goes anywhere you did not choose.

No BoardClip server, no account
Your history is plain files on your own disk. The app never talks to a server of ours: the only request it makes is asking GitHub whether there is an update.
Synced through your own drives
Your computers reach each other directly, encrypted, over your network or your Tailscale network, or through a Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud folder you already use. Nothing passes through us.
Open source
MIT licensed. Every line that touches your clipboard is on GitHub for anyone to read, build and check.
Coming soon: your clips in any browser
Sign in with Google on this site and read your clips straight from your own Drive. It runs in your browser, with still no server of ours in between.

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