Local-first storage
Your history lives in a single SQLite file on your own disk. No server, no upload, no "sign in to continue".
v2.4.1 — snippet variables and color previews are out
Your clipboard, remembered.
Nothing to sync, nothing to leak. QuickClip keeps every snippet, link, color and code block you copy in a fast, searchable history that never leaves your own machine.
- No account required
- No telemetry
- History stays on your disk
Features
Small tool, sharp edges
Everything you need to find the thing you copied twenty minutes ago — and nothing you don't.
Instant search
Type a few characters and fuzzy matching finds it — across case, word order, and even inside multi-line snippets.
Pin & organize
Pin the entries you reuse — a license key, a support reply, a deploy command — and they stay at the top of the list.
Snippets
Save text templates with {{date}} and {{clipboard}} variables, then expand them with a keyword anywhere you type.
Works offline
Airplane, train, locked-down corporate network: QuickClip behaves exactly the same, because it never needed the internet.
Lightweight
The installer is 8.6 MB and the app idles around 40 MB of RAM. It starts before your terminal finishes loading.
A look inside
A history you can actually read
Each entry keeps its type, its source app, and the moment you copied it — so you can paste the right thing without opening a single tab.
Search 248 items…
⌘K
- const total = items.reduce((sum, item) => sum + item.price, 0); Code · from Visual Studio Code
- https://dl.wctup.com/download/quickclip-2.4.1-win-x64.exe Link · from Chrome
- Ship the revised draft to Dana before Thursday's review. Text · from Notes
- #4F46E5 Color · from Figma · rgb(79, 70, 229)
- C:\Users\alex\Projects\quickclip\src\history\index.ts Path · from Explorer
- ssh deploy@10.0.4.21 -p 2202 -i ~/.ssh/deploy_ed25519 Command · from Windows Terminal
Press Ctrl + Shift + V anywhere to open the history, type to filter, hit Enter to paste. On macOS it's ⌘ + ⇧ + V.
Download
Grab the build for your machine
One installer, both platforms, no bundled extras. Older releases stay available indefinitely — the way it should be.
| Version | Date | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| v2.4.1Latest | Aug 14, 2026 | 8.6 MB | a3f1c9d84b7e2065… |
| v2.4.0 | Jun 02, 2026 | 8.4 MB | 7d02e6ab5591f8c3… |
| v2.3.2 | Apr 19, 2026 | 8.1 MB | c18b47f0e2d9635a… |
Checksums are truncated to the first 16 characters here. Each archive ships with a full 64-character SHA-256 in SHA256SUMS.txt alongside the build.
Windows
Windows 10 version 1809 or later, x64. Portable mode available — no admin rights needed.
macOS
macOS 12 Monterey or later, universal binary for Apple silicon and Intel. Signed and notarized.
Both builds are around 40 MB of RAM at idle with a 10,000-item history. No background services, no login items, no update daemon.
Changelog
What's new
Short cycles, small diffs, honest notes. Every release is listed, including the boring ones.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when copying from password managers with clipboard protection enabled.
- Search now matches across line breaks in multi-line snippets instead of treating each line separately.
- Idle memory is roughly 20% lower on large histories thanks to lazy thumbnails and a trimmed index.
- Snippet variables: {{date}}, {{time}} and {{clipboard}} are filled in when a snippet expands, with tab-through placeholders.
- Color entries in the history now show a preview swatch and accept hex, rgb() and hsl() input.
- New per-app exclusion list, so screen recorders and streaming tools never end up in your history.
- "Paste as plain text" now preserves paragraph spacing instead of collapsing blank lines.
- The history window remembers its size and position across restarts, including on secondary displays.
- macOS build is signed and notarized for Apple silicon and Intel; the Windows installer is now fully unsigned-clean on Windows Defender.
FAQ
Questions, answered
The short version: it's free, it's local, and it stays out of your way.
Is QuickClip really free?
Yes. Every feature is in the free build — no trial timer, no locked "Pro" tier, no account to create. There are no ads and no upsells inside the app. If you want to support development there's a donation link in the About window, and nothing ever nags you about it.
Where is my clipboard history stored?
In a single local database file, in your own user profile: %AppData%\QuickClip\history.db on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/QuickClip/history.db on macOS. It is never uploaded anywhere. Delete that file and your history is gone — that is the whole backup story.
Does it sync between devices?
No, and that is deliberate. Cloud sync would mean uploading everything you copy to someone else's server, which is a much bigger promise than a clipboard tool should ask for. If you need history on a second machine, you can export an encrypted archive and import it manually from a USB drive.
Can I use it portable?
Yes. Drop quickclip-portable.exe on a USB stick and your history, snippets and settings stay in a folder next to the executable — nothing is written to the host machine. On macOS you get the same result by pointing the data directory at any folder you choose under Preferences → Storage.
Does it collect any data?
None. QuickClip makes no network requests of its own — no telemetry, no crash reporting, no update pings, no "anonymous usage statistics" checkbox. The only network activity anywhere near it happens when you click a download link on this page, and that is handled entirely by your browser.