Ortu

A fast, local-first, privacy-focused clipboard manager.

Built with Tauri (Rust) + SvelteKit + SQLite.

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Ortu remembers what you copy so you can paste it again later — instantly, from the keyboard, and without sending anything to the cloud. Everything lives in a local SQLite database on your machine.

It captures text, images, and files, auto-organizes clips into groups, masks detected secrets, and ships a power-user paste stack for pasting several items in sequence across apps.

Local-first by design: no account, no telemetry, no cloud sync. Your clipboard stays on your device.

• 📋 Multi-format capture — text, images, and file selections.
• ⏸️ Pause capture — toggle clipboard monitoring on/off from the header; the choice persists across restarts.
• 🧠 Smart auto-grouping — a rule-based classifier sorts clips (URLs, code, JSON, shell, secrets, and more) with confidence scores.
• 🗂️ Groups & pinning — organize items into user groups; pin the ones you always need. An item can belong to multiple groups.
• 🔎 Fast search — SQLite FTS5 full-text index with a fuzzy re-ranker, plus group:<name> and type filters.
• 🥞 Paste stack — queue multiple clips and paste them one-by-one, in order, into any app.
• 🔐 Sensitive-data protection — detected secrets/keys/tokens can be masked and encrypted at rest (AES‑256‑GCM), revealed only on demand.
• ✂️ Snippets & transforms — reusable snippets with variables, and "Copy as" transforms (JSON pretty/minify, Base64, URL encode, case, slugify…).
• ⚡ Quick-access popup — summon a lightweight picker over any app with a global hotkey.
• ⌨️ Customizable global shortcuts — rebind the global hotkeys in Settings, with one-click restore-to-defaults.
• 🎨 Themes — light, dark, or follow system.
• 🧹 Flexible history retention — clear on reboot (default), keep forever, or age/count limits. Pinned & grouped items are always kept.
• 💾 Backup & restore — JSON backup/restore and plain-text export.
• 🔄 Update notices — Ortu tells you when a new release lands, in both the main window and the popup, and links straight to the installer for your platform.
• 🪶 Lightweight & native — no bundled browser; a single small binary per platform.

See the full breakdown in docs/FEATURES.md.

Main window — full clipboard history with search, type filters (URLs, text, files) and groups.

Quick popup — summon a lightweight picker over any app with a global hotkey.

Paste Stack — queue items from any app and paste them back in order.

Settings — themes, secret auto-masking, history retention and rebindable global shortcuts.

Download the latest installer for your OS from the Releases page.

If macOS reports the app is "damaged", clear the quarantine attribute:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Ortu.app"
codesign --force --deep --sign - "/Applications/Ortu.app"
open "/Applications/Ortu.app"

This is expected for binaries that aren't notarized with an Apple Developer account. See docs/PRIVACY_AND_SECURITY.md.

If Windows shows "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway. Ortu is open source, so you can review every line before installing, and each release is published with a minisign signature you can verify yourself.

Who is allowed to sign Ortu releases, and how to check a download yourself, is documented in the Code Signing Policy.

Global shortcuts are rebindable in Settings. Full reference: docs/SHORTCUTS.md.

• Rust toolchain (stable)
• Node.js (LTS)
• Platform dependencies:
  • macOS: Xcode Command Line Tools
  • Windows: WebView2 Runtime + MSVC build tools
  • Linux: libgtk-3-dev, libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev, libayatana-appindicator3-dev, librsvg2-dev, patchelf

git clone https://github.com/abhijith-p-subash/ortu.git
cd ortu
npm install
npm run tauri dev

npm run tauri build

More detail in docs/DEVELOPMENT.md and docs/BUILD_AND_RELEASE.md.

• Frontend: SvelteKit (SPA) + Tailwind CSS
• Backend: Rust + Tauri v2
• Storage: SQLite (WAL) via rusqlite, with a content-addressed blob store for images

Update the version across package.json, tauri.conf.json, and Cargo.toml:

npm run version-up <new_version>   # e.g. npm run version-up 2.0.1

Ortu follows Semantic Versioning. Notable changes are recorded in CHANGELOG.md.

Contributions are welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md and our Code of Conduct before opening a PR. Found a security issue? See SECURITY.md.

• 🌐 Website: https://ortu.abhijithpsubash.com/
• 📦 Releases: https://github.com/abhijith-p-subash/ortu/releases
• 🐙 Source: https://github.com/abhijith-p-subash/ortu

Ortu is free and open source. If it saves you time, you can support development:

MIT © 2025–2026 Abhijith P Subash