clipai
Clipboard history with semantic search, in the menu bar.
Details
- Role
- Author
- Started
- December 2025
- Language
- TypeScript
- Platform
- macOS, Windows
- Licence
- MIT
Overview
Clipboard managers are easy to build and hard to search. Once you have a few hundred entries, exact-match search stops helping — you remember what the thing was about, not the words it contained.
clipai adds semantic search over clipboard history, so "that database connection string" finds the right entry without you recalling its literal text. It runs in the menu bar on macOS and the system tray on Windows, capturing both text and images as you copy.
It recognises what it has captured — JSON, URLs, colours, emails, base64 — and formats accordingly, with syntax highlighting for JSON. History lives in memory and clears on restart, which is the right default for something that sees every password you copy.
Highlights
- Semantic search over clipboard history via an LLM
- Captures both text and images, including screenshots
- Smart content detection: JSON, URLs, colours, emails, base64
- Syntax-highlighted JSON formatting
- Frosted-glass transparent UI, toggleable
- In-memory history that clears on restart by design
Built with
- Electron
- React
- TypeScript
- Vite
- Bun