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QlipLab

What is QlipLab

QlipLab is a clipboard manager for macOS, Windows and Linux. It keeps a searchable history of everything you copy, recognizes what each clip is, transforms it in one click, and keeps your sensitive data behind AES-256 encryption — all locally, with no cloud component.

It’s built with Tauri (a Rust core with a web UI), so it’s small and fast, and it’s free and open source under Apache-2.0.

The idea

The system clipboard has one slot. Copy something new and the last thing is gone. That’s fine until you need the thing from two copies ago, or you copy a JSON blob and want it readable, or you paste a password that then sits in your clipboard for anyone to grab.

QlipLab replaces that one slot with:

  • a history of everything you copy, searchable and pinnable;
  • format detection that knows a JWT from a UUID from a SQL query — 24 formats;
  • transforms that beautify, decode, convert, hash and reshape a clip in one click — 40 of them;
  • a diff view for comparing any two clips;
  • snippets you can paste or expand inline as you type;
  • an encrypted vault for cards, keys, and anything else that shouldn’t live in plaintext.

Five minutes in

  1. Install for your platform, and grant the one permission it asks for (on macOS, Accessibility — it’s what lets QlipLab paste for you).
  2. Copy a few things. They appear in the history the moment you copy them.
  3. Press the global shortcut — Alt+Q by default — to summon the window over whatever app you’re in.
  4. Copy some JSON. QlipLab detects it; open the transforms and beautify it.
  5. Click a clip. QlipLab hides, returns you to the app you were in, and pastes it there.

That’s the whole loop. Everything else — the vault, snippets, diff, text expansion — builds on it.

What’s under the hood

PlatformsmacOS 12+, Windows 10+, Linux (AppImage / .deb)
Built withTauri v2 (Rust) + React 19 + TypeScript
StorageLocal SQLite + a small key-value store, in the app’s data directory
EncryptionAES-256-GCM, key derived with PBKDF2 (210,000 iterations)
Languages15, including right-to-left Arabic
LicenseApache-2.0 — free, open source, source on GitHub

Where to go next

  • Installation — per-platform steps and the permission each OS needs.
  • Keyboard shortcuts — the global toggle, quick-paste, diff mode, navigation.
  • Privacy — exactly what stays local and what (only if you ask) leaves.