A free, open-source alternative to Klipboard Cloud. They charge $12/mo.
Free
Paste Buffer
Clipboard history that stays on the machine it was copied on. Searchable, encrypted, no sync server.
Teardown
3 parts, wired together
- 01SQLiteTODO — keeps the history on disk, indexed for full-text search.
- 02TauriTODO — runs as a real desktop app instead of an Electron shell.
- 03ageTODO — encrypts the store with a key you generate locally.
What it does
TODO — replace this placeholder description.
Paste Buffer covers the one job Klipboard Cloud charges $12/mo for, and stops there. It runs on your own machine or your own hosting, against your own key, so the running cost is whatever the underlying API charges and nothing on top.
TODO — describe the actual loop the tool handles here.
Run it yourself
Bring your own API key. Three commands from clone to running.
$ git clone https://github.com/rebuiltlabs/paste-buffer.git$ cd paste-buffer && npm install$ cp .env.example .env # add your own API keyWhat I cut
Where it stops short of Klipboard Cloud
- TODO — no cross-device sync; the history never leaves the machine.
- TODO — no shared team snippets.
- TODO — images are stored but not OCR'd.