Power Clipboard

The best clipboard manager ever!
Stack everything you copy. Navigate your clipboard history with a keystroke.

A native clipboard manager for macOS, Linux, and Windows built with Tauri v2.

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Features

• Clipboard stacking — Every Cmd+C (or Ctrl+C) pushes to a unique-value stack. No duplicates.
• Keyboard navigation — Cmd+Shift+Down/Up to cycle through your clipboard history. The selected item is automatically copied.
• Overlay — A minimal floating list appears top-right when navigating. Auto-hides after 2 seconds of inactivity.
• Privacy — Only the first 2 characters of each item are shown (+ ellipsis).
• System tray — Lives in your menu bar. Right-click for Settings or Quit.
• Dock-aware — No dock icon by default. Appears only when Settings are open (macOS).
• Configurable — Stack limit adjustable from 1 to 50 (default: 5).

Install

From source

# Prerequisites: Rust, Node.js
npm install
cargo tauri build --bundles app

The .app bundle will be at src-tauri/target/release/bundle/macos/Power Clipboard.app.

Copy it to /Applications:

cp -r "src-tauri/target/release/bundle/macos/Power Clipboard.app" /Applications/

Development

npm install
cargo tauri dev

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Cmd+Shift+Down	Select previous clipboard item
Cmd+Shift+Up	Select next clipboard item

On Windows/Linux, replace Cmd with Ctrl.

Architecture

src-tauri/src/
├── main.rs               # Entry point, plugins, shortcuts
├── clipboard_stack.rs    # Unique-value bounded stack with navigation
├── clipboard_monitor.rs  # Polls clipboard every 500ms
├── commands.rs           # Tauri commands (get/set settings)
└── tray.rs               # System tray icon + menu

ui/
├── overlay/              # Floating clipboard list (transparent window)
└── settings/             # Settings window

Tech Stack

• Tauri v2 — Native app shell
• Rust — Backend (clipboard monitoring, stack management, global shortcuts)
• HTML/CSS/JS — Frontend (no framework)

License

MIT