# Smart Clipboard ✨ **Your clipboard has a memory now.** Everything you copy is saved, searchable, and one shortcut away. No accounts. No internet. Everything stays on your device. [](https://github.com/ezeiq7/smart-clipboard/releases/latest) [](https://github.com/ezeiq7/smart-clipboard/releases/latest) [](LICENSE) ### App Overview  ### Core Features  ### Smart Paste 

What is Smart Clipboard?

Smart Clipboard is a free Windows clipboard manager that silently
saves everything you copy and lets you access it instantly —
without ever switching apps.

Built because every existing clipboard manager was either too
complex, too ugly, or charged too much.

Features

Core

• 📋 Auto-capture — everything you copy is saved automatically
• 🔍 Instant search — find any clip in milliseconds
• 📌 Pin clips — keep important clips at the top forever
• 🏷️ Tags — colour-coded organisation for your clips
• 🖼️ Image support — screenshots and images saved with preview
• 🔎 Auto code detection — code clips are automatically tagged and formatting is preserved

Power Features

• ⚡ Quick-paste launcher — press Ctrl+Shift+V anywhere for an instant floating search palette with fuzzy search. No app switching needed.
• ✨ Smart Paste — when pasting from the launcher, choose how to paste: Plain, Clean (fix quotes & spacing), No Breaks, Bullet List, UPPERCASE, or lowercase. One keystroke, perfect output.
• ⟨⟩ Templates — save clips with {placeholders} that fill in on demand. Perfect for repetitive emails and messages.
• 🔒 Private mode — clips stay in memory only, never written to disk. Clears automatically when you're done.
• ⊕ Merge clips — select multiple clips and merge them with a custom separator (newline, comma, space, or custom) into one paste.
• ⌨️ Double-tap Ctrl — open Smart Clipboard instantly from anywhere without memorising shortcuts.
• 🎨 Syntax highlighting — code clips display with colour highlighting in the preview panel.

Privacy & Safety

• 🛡️ Sensitive content filter — passwords, credit cards and SSNs are automatically detected and never saved
• 🚫 Excluded apps — configure apps like password managers to never be captured
• 📵 Zero telemetry — no internet connection, no tracking, no accounts ever

Installation

No installer needed — just download and run.

1. Go to Releases
2. Download Smart Clipboard.exe
3. Place it anywhere on your PC
4. Run it once and follow the 30-second onboarding
5. Done — the app starts automatically with Windows from now on

Requirements

• Windows 10 or Windows 11
• No additional software needed

Keyboard Shortcuts

Main App

Quick-Paste Launcher

Smart Paste Formats

Privacy

Smart Clipboard is built with privacy as a core feature — not an afterthought.

Settings

Open settings via the ⚙ gear icon in the toolbar:

• Max clips to keep — 10 to 500, or unlimited
• Auto-delete after — 1 hour to 30 days, or never
• Excluded apps — comma-separated app names to ignore
• Launch at startup — toggle Windows auto-start
• Global shortcuts — disable all hotkeys if they conflict
• Export clips — save your history as .json or .txt
• Replay tutorial — re-run the onboarding at any time

FAQ

Will this slow down my PC?
No. Smart Clipboard runs as a lightweight background process
and uses minimal CPU and memory.

Is my clipboard data sent anywhere?
Never. Everything is stored locally in a JSON file on your
own computer.

Can I use this at work?
Yes. Enable Private mode or turn off capture entirely when
working with sensitive documents.

My antivirus flagged it — is it safe?
Yes. PyInstaller executables are sometimes flagged by
antivirus tools. You can verify Smart Clipboard is safe
by reviewing the full source code in this repository.

How do I uninstall?
Delete the exe and the folder. To remove from Windows startup,
open Settings → disable auto-start, then delete the folder.

What is Smart Paste?
Smart Paste is a feature in the quick-paste launcher that lets
you transform text before pasting. Press Enter on any clip to
open the Smart Paste bar, then choose your format with arrow keys.

What's New in v1.1.0

• Smart Paste — transform clips before pasting directly from the launcher
• Scrollable launcher — the launcher now scrolls with full keyboard navigation
• Double-tap Ctrl — open Smart Clipboard from anywhere, instantly
• Merge clips — combine multiple clips with a chosen separator
• Search shortcut — press S to jump to the search bar from the clip list
• Ctrl+Arrow multi-select — extend/shrink selection like Windows Explorer
• Auto code tagging — code clips automatically get the code tag
• Launcher help guide — hover ? in the launcher for a full shortcut reference
• Snipping Tool fix — screenshots now save correctly without interfering with the native popup

Built With

• Python — core language
• Tkinter — UI framework
• pynput — global keyboard listener
• pystray — system tray icon
• Pillow — image support
• pywin32 — Windows API
• psutil — process detection

Running from Source

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/ezeiq7/Smart-Clipboard.git

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run the app
python main.py

Reporting Issues

Found a bug? Have a feature request?

Open an issue
and describe what happened. Include your Windows version and
what you were doing when the issue occurred.

License

Copyright © 2026 Smart Clipboard