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Clipster is built with Tauri and Rust, not Electron. It opens in under 50 milliseconds, uses roughly 10× less RAM than Electron-based clipboard apps, and barely touches your battery.

On a MacBook, Clipster idles at around 30 MB of memory — a typical Electron alternative sits between 200 and 400 MB.

Clipster is the fastest way to resume work exactly where you left off — on any device, without interruption. The address you copied this morning, the snippet from yesterday's meeting, the color code your designer just sent — it all stays one shortcut away, so you stop re-finding, re-typing, and re-searching for what you already had.

Writers reuse phrasing, developers recycle snippets, designers keep palettes at the ready, support teams surface canned replies in a click. Clipster turns every repetitive copy-paste into a single keystroke and lets you hop between Mac, Windows, and iPhone without ever losing your flow.

No. Clipster sits quietly in the background and consumes almost no resources until you summon it.

In short: Clipster is smooth, beautiful, fast, discreet, and efficient.

Short version: most clipboard managers are great but single-platform. Paste is polished but Apple-only and doesn't advertise zero-knowledge encryption; Maccy is free but Mac-only with no sync; Raycast and Alfred are Mac launchers whose clipboard history stays local; the Windows clipboard and Ditto never reach your Mac or iPhone.

Clipster is one of the very few that's cross-platform (Mac, Windows, iPhone — Android next) with zero-knowledge end-to-end encrypted sync, plus Pins to organize your Clips. See the comparison table below for the full breakdown.

Yes. Clipster is one of the very few serious clipboard managers that offers a native Windows app alongside macOS and iOS — most competitors (Paste, Maccy, Pastebot, Alfred) are Mac-only.

Everything you copy on Windows is searchable and syncs to your other devices.

Yes — with Clipster. Copy on your Windows PC and paste on your iPhone, or the reverse, synced end-to-end encrypted. This combo is rare: Apple's and Microsoft's built-in clipboards don't talk to each other, and most clipboard managers are single-platform. Clipster's Pro plan keeps one clipboard live across Mac, Windows and iPhone.

For an encrypted clipboard that works on both Mac and Windows, Clipster is one of the few options: it syncs your history and Pins end-to-end encrypted (zero-knowledge) across macOS, Windows and iPhone. Most managers — Paste, Maccy, Raycast, Alfred — are Mac-only, and the built-in Windows clipboard never reaches a Mac.

Yes. Clipster syncs your clipboard in real time across macOS, Windows, and iOS. Copy an address on your iPhone, open your Windows laptop, paste — the clip is already there.

Sync is end-to-end encrypted, so nobody (not even Clipster) can read what travels between your devices.

Yes. Clipster captures every copy and searches your history fully offline.

When you reconnect, any new clips sync automatically to your other devices — no lost clipboard, no waiting.

Clipster recognizes and renders text, code snippets with syntax highlighting, images, files, links with preview cards, colors (hex, RGB, HSL), songs, and documents.

Each type gets its own preview, so you scan your history visually instead of reading plain text.

A note on Windows: Windows has no native file previewer like macOS's Quick Look, so the Windows version shows fewer rich previews. Instead, Clipster surfaces the useful metadata (file name, path, size, type) in a clean, readable layout — so you still find exactly what you copied, just presented differently.

Pins are named categories — create Pins like "Code", "Prompts", "Colors", or "Client X", and group your most-used Clips into them.

Unlike a single starred list, Pins act as smart folders that stay one keyboard shortcut away.

Yes. Clipster runs full-text search across every clip you've ever copied — text, code, links, file names, even content inside documents and PDFs.

Type a few characters and the right clip surfaces instantly — no scrolling, no guessing.

Every clip is encrypted on your device with a key derived from your master password before it ever leaves your machine.

The Clipster server only stores opaque AES-256 ciphertext — we never see your clipboard content, and we couldn't hand it over even if asked.

No. Clipster uses zero-knowledge encryption: your master password never reaches our servers, and your clipboard data is decrypted only on your devices.

If we were subpoenaed tomorrow, there would be nothing readable to share.

It depends on the encryption. With zero-knowledge end-to-end encryption — what Clipster uses — your clipboard is encrypted on your device before it syncs, so the server only stores unreadable ciphertext and even the vendor can't read it. Avoid clipboard sync that isn't end-to-end encrypted: clipboards often hold passwords and private text.

Your encrypted history becomes unrecoverable. That's the tradeoff for real end-to-end encryption — nobody but you holds the key.

We recommend storing your master password in a password manager like 1Password or Bitwarden.

Yes. The Clipster desktop app runs on a Rust core wrapped in Tauri, with a native webview for the UI.

That's why it launches instantly, stays cold on your CPU, and doesn't bundle an entire Chromium runtime like Electron apps do.

Clipster runs a lightweight, real-time sync engine that pushes new clips to your other devices the moment you copy them. No manual refresh, no "send to" button — just a single clipboard that follows you.

Every clip is encrypted on-device before leaving your machine, travels through our relay as opaque ciphertext, and is only decrypted on your other signed-in devices.

If there's enough demand, yes. Clipster currently runs on macOS, Windows, and iOS. Android is on our roadmap — the more users ask for it, the faster we ship.

If an Android app would make a real difference for you, drop us a line at contact@clipster-app.com. We count every request.

We built Clipster to genuinely make your life easier, not to funnel you into a paywall. The free plan is designed to be enough for most people on most days — real clipboard history, real search, every content type.

If you never upgrade, that's perfectly fine. Plus and Pro are options, not gates — Plus unlocks every feature of the app, and Pro adds live sync across every device you own.

The Plus plan unlocks everything inside Clipster — full clipboard history, every Pin, every content type, every feature. You can use it on up to 3 devices, each with its own independent clipboard (no cross-device sync).

The Pro plan goes one step further: it keeps your entire clipboard synced live across every device you own — Mac, Windows, iPhone. Copy on one, paste on another, always.