A polished clipboard manager for Windows built with WPF.
ClipVault helps you keep, organize, and reuse copied text without the clutter. It stores clipboard history locally, lets you pin important entries, create reusable snippets, review logs, and stay out of the way with tray support.
- Automatically captures copied text
- Stores clipboard history locally on your machine
- Prevents duplicate spam from immediately repeated copies
- Trims older entries based on your configured history limit
- Pin important clipboard entries for quick access
- Protect pinned items from normal history cleanup
- Create reusable text snippets
- Edit existing snippets
- Copy snippets back to the clipboard instantly
- Search clipboard history, pinned items, and snippets
- Filter log entries by level in the log viewer
- View application logs from inside the app
- Filter by info, warning, and error entries
- Copy visible log output
- Open the logs folder directly
- Minimize to tray
- Close to tray
- Restore the app from the tray icon
- Optionally launch ClipVault at Windows startup
- Clipboard data is stored locally
- Settings are stored locally
- Logs are stored locally
- Packaged releases support update checks through the ClipVault release feed
A lot of clipboard tools feel bloated, outdated, or unreliable.
ClipVault is designed to stay clean, fast, and focused on the features that matter most:
- Clipboard history
- Pinned items
- Reusable snippets
- Searchable content
- Built-in logging
- A polished desktop UI
It is built for people who want a better clipboard workflow without turning a simple utility into a mess.
ClipVault v1 includes:
- Main window with History, Pinned, Snippets, and Settings
- Snippet editor
- Built-in log viewer
- Dark-styled UI with polished controls
- Packaged updater support
Download the latest Setup.exe from the latest release and run it like a normal Windows installer.
Some releases may also include packaged assets used for update delivery and distribution.
Once ClipVault is running, copied text is captured automatically when clipboard monitoring is enabled.
Use the Pin action on any history item to keep it available and easy to find.
Open the Snippets section to create, edit, and reuse saved text blocks.
From Settings, you can manage:
- Launch on startup
- Clipboard monitoring
- Minimize to tray
- Close to tray
- Maximum history size
Use the built-in log viewer to:
- Inspect logs
- Search log content
- Filter by level
- Copy visible log output
- Open the logs folder
ClipVault stores its data locally in the user's local application data folder.
This includes:
- SQLite database
- Settings
- Log files
ClipVault supports packaged application updates through its release feed.
Typical release flow:
- Publish the app
- Pack the release
- Upload the generated release assets
- Install using the packaged setup
- Use in-app update checking for future versions
Version 1.x represents the first polished foundation of ClipVault.
Current releases include the core experience:
- Main window UI polish
- Snippet editor polish
- Log viewer
- Theme and shared UI improvements
- Packaged updater flow
- C#
- WPF
- SQLite
- Velopack
ClipVault is currently focused on text clipboard workflows.