ClipSafe is a small software company building privacy-first tools for Windows. Everything we ship works locally by default: your clipboard, your notes and anything you choose to share stay on your PC, with no account and no cloud in the middle.

ClipSafe is a privacy-first clipboard manager for Windows. It keeps your entire clipboard history saved locally and searchable, so your data stays private.

Get ClipSafe free on the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MZF3B649DZV

Windows 10/11 • Free Forever • No Registration Required

• Local-only clipboard history for privacy
• Lightning-fast search across all clipboard items
• Organize with colored tags, or pin what matters
• Background monitoring with zero cloud dependencies
• Quick access to last 9 items with Ctrl + Shift + 1-9
• Back up and restore everything in one compressed file
• Works with Windows Snipping Tool
• Lightweight, runs quietly in the background
• Clean, modern interface that matches clipsafe.app

Clipboard History

• Text with source tracking
• Files and file paths
• Images with metadata
• Audio clips
• Animated GIFs
• Link previews

Search Everything

• Global search
• Content search
• Source search
• Tag-based search
• Keyboard-first: Ctrl + F opens search, Esc closes it, Enter copies the top result

Tag System

• Create your own tags with the built-in color picker or any hex code
• Assign several tags to a single item
• Filter the history by tag instantly
• Manage, rename and delete tags from the Tag Manager

Pin System

• Pin any item so it stays at the top
• Browse all pins or only one content type
• Pinned items never expire and survive history clearing

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Ctrl + Shift + 1-9 for quick access
• Choose shortcut behavior (None, Copy, Copy & Paste)
• Works with number row or numpad
• No need to open the app

Backup & Restore

• Export history, tags, settings and images into one compressed .clipsafe file
• Import it on another PC and pick up exactly where you left off

Customizable

• Auto-start with Windows
• Follow system theme
• Pause/resume tracking
• Set history limits
• Minimalistic mode: hide item footers and tighten spacing

Light & Dark Themes

• Matches your Windows theme automatically

ClipSafe Notes is a Markdown notes app for Windows. Every note is a plain .md file in a folder you choose, so the vault survives uninstalls, sync tools and other editors. Search runs locally with SQLite FTS5, folders and tags filter the same list, and the split view renders Markdown while you write.

Notes and ClipSafe talk over the same local pipe. Sending a note labels it with its tags and the note name, and clicking that label in ClipSafe opens the note again.

Get ClipSafe Notes free on the Microsoft Store:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PH5NWCB0KR1

Select code, press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + S, and the snippet lands in ClipSafe with its language, file name, workspace and a code tag. The extension talks to the desktop app over a local named pipe, and tells you when the app is not running.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ClipSafe.clipsafe

Drop shares one clipboard item as a temporary link. The item is encrypted on your PC with AES-256-GCM before it leaves, the key stays in the URL fragment and never reaches a server, and the bucket stores ciphertext only. Links expire, and you can add a password.

The Windows apps are .NET 10 WPF with SQLite storage, packaged as MSIX for the Microsoft Store. They talk to each other over a local named pipe, and deep links (clipsafe://, clipsafenotes://) move between them. The website is a static Cloudflare Pages site with a few Pages Functions for downloads, contact and Drop, backed by R2.

The longer write-up, project by project and with the trade-offs, is in ARCHITECTURE.md.

• Local first. The apps do not sync, do not require an account and do not send usage data.
• Sharing is explicit and encrypted, never automatic.
• The website counts page views and anonymous download clicks. That is the only analytics in the stack.
• Boring technology that we can still maintain in two years.
• Installs come from the Store or the Marketplace, so updates stay boring too.

• Website: https://clipsafe.app
• Developer docs: https://clipsafe.app/developers
• Changelog: https://clipsafe.app/changelog
• Microsoft Store: ClipSafe, ClipSafe Notes
• VS Code Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ClipSafe.clipsafe
• Discord: https://discord.gg/4vfRhCZnHJ
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClipSafe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clipsafe.app

If ClipSafe saves you time, consider supporting development:

• Email: support@clipsafe.app