ClipTrail remembers everything you copy, knows what each thing is, and syncs it end-to-end encrypted between your laptop and phone. Open source, no account, no tracking.
Built-in clipboards forget after 25 items. Sync tools only move your last copy. ClipTrail keeps the whole trail and makes it easy to find.
Text, links, code, images and files, kept until you delete them. Nothing lost after a restart.
Each clip is recognised as a link, code (with its language), a colour, an email or phone, a file, an image, or a secret. No tagging.
A hotkey opens a search box at your fingertips. Type a few letters, press Enter, and it pastes straight into the app you were in.
A timeline grouped by day and a calendar heatmap. Jump straight to "that thing I copied last Tuesday".
Copy on your phone, paste on your laptop, and the other way round. Pair with a QR code. Syncs over your own Wi-Fi first, with no account needed.
Clean tracking junk from links, copy a colour as hex or rgb, prettify JSON, paste anything as plain text.
Password managers are ignored. One-time codes and API keys are hidden, never searchable, and deleted after an hour.
A Rust core with a native-feeling app. Small download, low memory, instant search over years of history.
Lives quietly in your tray. Recent clips, pause capture, and every action has a keyboard shortcut.
ClipTrail is built to do both, on the devices people actually mix.
| Built-in history Win+V and similar | History apps single-device | Clipboard sync phone links, bridges | ClipTrail | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keeps everything, searchable | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Laptop ↔ phone | last clip only | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sorted by type automatically | — | some | — | ✓ |
| Browse by date | — | — | — | ✓ |
| End-to-end encrypted, open source | — | some | some | ✓ |
| Windows + Linux + Android | — | — | some | ✓ |
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