Smart clipboard for Windows and Linux

The clipboard that remembers.

Orange Copy Paste keeps the text, images and files you copy in a searchable history, next to your notes, on every device. End-to-end encrypted, and fully usable offline.

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Free. No account needed. Linux builds: deb, rpm, AppImage.

Meet at the station, platform 4, 9:40

CtrlShiftC

Orange Copy Paste

TodayAug 21, 2026

YesterdayAug 20, 2026

Rotate the space key before the beta goes out, then re-wrap for everyone.

TextreleaseYesterday

meeting-notes-aug-20.md

DocYesterday

staging.rovertools.app/preview/920x560

URLYesterday

/home/rio/projects/orangecp/assets/press

FolderYesterday

86 text21 img128 total

Sync connected

How it works

Copy. Find. Paste.

Ctrl+C

Copy anywhere

Keep copying the way you always have. A background watcher notices every copy in about a fifth of a second and adds it to history: text, links, images, files, even rich HTML.

groups work ideas

Find it later

Search by content or group name. Filter by type, date, group, or cloud state, and every filter shows how many items it would leave before you apply it.

Ctrl+Shift+V

Paste it back

A small popup opens at your cursor with your recent and pinned items. Press a number, 1 to 9, and that item is pasted into whatever app you are in.

Features

Small app. Long memory.

Everything below works without an account. Sync and sharing are layered on top, never wired in as a requirement.

clipboard

History that holds on

A rolling 100 entries, always deduped. Pin up to 10 for the quick-paste popup, save what should survive a restart, and clear-all never touches what you saved.

organize

Groups and filters

Tag entries with colored groups, then filter by type, date, group, or cloud state. Deleting a group gives you five seconds to undo it.

notes

Notes with a real editor

Headings, task lists, tables, code blocks with syntax highlighting, callouts, images and attachments. Export any note as Markdown whenever you want out.

media

Images, files and video

Screenshots and photos are captured at full quality and kept on disk, not in memory. Copied videos play right on the card.

local-first

Works offline, forever

No account required. Everything lives on your machine, and the app is fully usable with sync off or the network gone. Cloud sync is a choice, not a requirement.

calm

Quiet by design

Lives in the tray, starts with Windows if you want, and stays out of the way. Notification sounds exist, but the noisy ones are off by default.

In the app

Every surface, up close.

Real screens, drawn at the sizes the app renders them. Nothing here is a stylised version of the product.

**The history screen**Sort, filters, search and a three-way layout switch across the top; day groups on a timeline; the entry sitting on your clipboard outlined in orange.

Filters42 of 128Clear

Quick1

Pinned12Saved34From others15

Typeall types

Text41URL17Rich Text2Image52Video0Doc4File6Folder3

Dateany time

Any timeToday7 daysRange

Cloud1

AnyIn cloud96Local32

AnyIn a space24Not shared104

Design12Ops1Family4

Groupsany group

work21release9ideas6crypto4support3family2

Filters that count aheadEvery type, cloud state and space carries the number of items it would leave you, counted before you click it.

Rows

TextYou#ff3e1c on #0e0e0e reads 4.6:14m

FileRriobrand-assets (3 files)26m

URLYoustaging.rovertools.app/preview1h

ImageMmei#7f31c0ab Image Aug 2118m

DocMmeipress-kit-aug.pdf5h

FolderYou/home/rio/projects/orangecp6h

Rich TextRrioRelease checklist, three items left8h

Cards or rowsThe same shared feed as one line per item. The arrow says which way it went: orange for what you sent, grey for what arrived.

Release checklist

Draft the notes in changelog/next.md
Check the updater on both channels
Ship 0.1.16

bun run tauri build

Pinnedwork

12m ago

Reply to the beta thread

Yes, the history stays on disk when sync is off. Nothing is uploaded until you sign in.

support

Yesterday

Popup sizes

Window	Size
Copy popup	340 x 260
Paste popup	340 x 460
Main window	920 x 560

ideas

2h ago

From the design review

The rail should have ends. A line that stops dead reads as a bug.

Fixed by fading the last group out under its own dot.

release

2Yesterday

Notes, in the same windowTask lists, tables, code and quotes. A note pins, tags and shares exactly like a copied item.

Before the tag

Draft the notes
Check both update channels

The tag is here:

RoverTools-Releases/tag/v0.1.16URL32m agogithub.com/Spectrewolf8/RoverTools-Releases

A real editor, not a text boxHeadings, checklists, tables, code and colors. Drop a copied item into the text and it stays linked, openable in place.

Shortcuts

Capture the selection into the historyCtrlShiftC

Open the quick-paste popupCtrlShiftV

Paste an entry by its slot number1-9, 0

Switch between Recent and PinnedTab

Close the popupEsc

Everything has a keyCapture and paste without opening the window. The popup answers to digits, arrows and Esc, and the app lists every binding it uses.

Right-click any itemCopy, pin, save, put it in the cloud, share it to a space, tag it, or delete it, without leaving the list.

Do it to a hundred at onceTick the items and pin, save, tag, upload or share the lot. The space list checks the ones every selected item is already in.

Updates

App version 0.1.15Version 0.1.16 is available.

Download

Check for updates automaticallyLook for a newer version shortly after the app starts. Updates are never installed without asking.

Signed updatesA bundle installs only if its signature matches the key baked into the app, and nothing installs until you say so.

Quick PasteCtrl+Shift+V opens it at your cursor. Press a digit and that item pastes into whatever you were typing in.

The copy popupCtrl+Shift+C shows what the app just captured, so you can pin, save or drop it without opening the window.

People5

YOYouowner

RIrio

MEmeiwaiting for key

DEdev-box

SAsam

7K2M-9QX4Copy codeCopy link

Invite by emailSend

Who is in a spaceWho is online right now, and a badge on anyone whose device has not picked up the space key yet.

Rulesauto

Copy new items inAnything shared here lands on your clipboard as it arrives.

Share new items outOff. Only items you share by hand go into this space.

Show removed itemsKeeps a line where something used to be, with who took it out.

Sharing is opt-inNothing leaves this machine unless you shared it or turned one of these on.

Automatic syncing

RealtimePassiveManual

Items from your other devices arrive the moment they are copied, and what you copy here uploads right away.

Devices

studio-desktopthis devicewindows - online

rio-macbookmacos - online

Remove

Sync per deviceRealtime, passive or manual, chosen on each machine. Your laptop can stay live while your desktop only syncs when you ask.

Invites

Requests2Received1Sent0

Design

rio used a code or a join link 4 min ago

ApproveDecline

Ops

mei used a code or a join link 1 hr ago

ApproveDecline

Nobody joins without youA code gets somebody as far as the door. Requests, invites you were sent and invites you sent out all wait in one panel.

Notifications

Mark all readClear read

AllInvites1Sync1

Today

rio invited you to Design

4 min ago

JoinDecline

3 items are waiting to upload

2 hr ago

The bell keeps the receiptsSpace invites and sync warnings land in one feed. Answer an invite from the row it arrived on, or filter down to the kind you came for.

Storage

Cloud storage12.4 MB of 50 MB

Images and files take almost all of it. Text and notes barely register.

Items in the cloud96 of the 128 in this history

encrypted

This deviceCloud

96 items

Text4244%

Image2526%

URL1718%

You can see what you useThe quota sits in the open, per account, and every byte of it was encrypted before it left the machine.

**The Spaces screen**Your spaces on the left, the shared feed in the middle, and the rules and people for that space on the right. Both side panels resize and stay where you put them.

Cloud sync

Sync that cannot read your data.

Your password is the encryption secret, not just a login. Everything is encrypted on your machine before it leaves, so the server only ever stores ciphertext. Not your clips, not your notes, not even your settings are readable to anyone but you.

Your device

Meet at the station, platform 4

Plaintext stays here

AES-256-GCM

The server

q9J2xK41Vd8mThPZC7oW3nRl...

Ciphertext only. No key, ever.

wrapped key

Your other devices

Meet at the station, platform 4

Decrypted on arrival

Realtime

Items from your other devices arrive the moment they are copied, and what you copy here uploads right away.

Passive

Items from your other devices arrive every 5 minutes, or when you press Refresh. What you copy here still uploads right away.

Manual

Nothing new uploads on its own. Pick what to send with Upload to cloud, on an item or on a selection.

The mode is per device. Deletes travel too, offline work queues up, and conflicts resolve to the latest edit.

Spaces

A clipboard you can share.

A Space is a live, shared feed between any number of people. Share a clip or a note into it and everyone sees it in seconds, still end-to-end encrypted with a key the server never holds.

Invite your way. A code, a link that works for people without the app, or an email. People can also ask to join, and any member can let them in.
Auto-copy incoming. Turn it on per space and shared items land straight on your clipboard as they arrive.
Send filters, off by default. Auto-share only the content, types or groups you choose. Until you do, only items you share by hand go in.
Talk about it in place. Comment on anything shared into a space, with mentions.

Security

Built so trust is not required.

A wrong password is just a failed decryption. There is nothing on the server to guess against, reset, or subpoena into plaintext.

AES-256-GCM: Encrypts every clip, note, key wrap and even your settings blob before anything leaves your machine.
Argon2id: Turns your password into a key on your device. The password itself is never sent anywhere.
X25519: Moves keys between your devices and space members without the server ever holding a usable one.
Per-item keys: Every item is encrypted under its own random key. One item never unlocks another, and sharing wraps a key instead of re-encrypting content.
OS keychain: Device keys live in Windows Credential Manager or your Linux keyring, and master keys exist in memory only, wiped on exit.
Recovery code: A 150-bit code, shown once and stored nowhere, that makes a forgotten password survivable.
Signed updates: A bundle installs only if its minisign signature matches the key baked into the app.
Local first: The encryption boundary is the network. Your local data stays plain and fast, and the app works fully offline.

The full model, including what the server does see, is written down plainly in the security docs.