A native, keyboard-first clipboard manager — with screenshots, screen recording, and instant translation built in.
GenClipboard remembers everything you copy and brings it back with one shortcut. Search across thousands of clips, paste with a single keystroke, and never lose a copied URL, snippet, or screenshot again.
{ "ok": true, "ms": 14 } Why GenClipboard
Same Cmd+C, Cmd+V you already know — plus everything the OS forgets the moment you copy something else.
In action
Four moments. The last 30 days of clipboard, organized so well you stop thinking about it.
GenClipboard runs in the menu bar and watches the system clipboard. Every Cmd+C is captured, deduplicated, and timestamped — across text, images, rich text, files, and JSON.
Press ⇧⌘V anywhere. The panel slides up from the bottom of your active screen, pre-focused, ready for keyboard navigation.
← → to browse. Hit 1-9 to paste a card directly into the app you were just using. Esc to dismiss.⇧⌘A selects a region; the editor opens in-place with arrow, rect, circle, line, and text tools. Cmd+C copies the result back to the clipboard — and into your history.
⇧⌘R records a region as MP4 instead.Highlight text anywhere — Slack, a PDF, a webpage — and a configurable hotkey opens a tiny translator popup right next to your cursor. Replace the original in-place, or just copy.
Everything in one app
No subscriptions. No lock-in. No telemetry on what you copy.
Text, rich text, images, files, URLs, JSON — auto-detected with the right type badge. Re-copies update timestamp via SHA-256 hash.
SQLite FTS5 full-text search across text content, source app, and filename. Filter by type. Pinned clips always on top.
Bottom-of-screen panel with horizontally scrollable cards. Number badges 1-9, source app, timestamp, content preview at a glance.
⇧⌘A captures a region, opens an in-place editor with arrow, rect, circle, line, text tools. Copy the annotated result back to clipboard.
⇧⌘R selects a region; FFmpeg records it as MP4. Floating timer + stop control. Preview & copy when you're done.
Highlight text anywhere, hit a hotkey, get a tiny popup. Replace in-place or copy. Powered by your Genspark account.
Optional sync across your Macs and PCs. Password is local only — the cloud cannot read your clip content. Even we can't.
English, 中文, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Français, Deutsch, Português, Italiano, Русский, العربية, עברית, हिन्दी, and more.
Built with Tauri 2 + Rust. ~15 MB install. NSPanel overlay shows even on top of full-screen apps. No Electron bloat.
How it works
Backend in Rust with arboard + NSPasteboard FFI on macOS, Win32 Clipboard API on Windows. Frontend is React in a single WKWebView/WebView2. ~15 MB total — not 200 MB of Electron.
Clip history lives in SQLite on your disk. Sync is opt-in and end-to-end encrypted with a password only you hold — keys never leave your machine. The cloud sees ciphertext.
We never see what you copy. The analytics sanitizer hard-blocks any property whose key contains content, text, image, password, secret, token, cookie, or path — so even crash-report metadata can't accidentally leak your clipboard. Sync uses end-to-end encryption with a password only you hold.
Get started
Total time: about 90 seconds. No account required.
A signed installer for your platform. macOS users: open the .dmg and drag GenClipboard to Applications. Windows users: run the .exe.
Both downloads include automatic updates — you'll get future releases without revisiting this page.
macOS: allow the app in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. Required so GenClipboard can simulate Cmd+V to paste into the app you were last using.
⇧⌘V on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows. Panel slides up. Type to search, arrows to navigate, 1-9 for instant paste, Esc to dismiss. The hotkey is configurable in Settings.
Default: ⇧ ⌘ V — change it any time in Settings → Toggle Hotkey.
14 shortcuts, all keyboard-driven. Two minutes to learn, then your hand never leaves the home row again.