Clip Vault: A cross-platform secure clipboard manager

3 months ago 10

A secure, cross-platform clipboard manager built with Rust and Tauri. Clip Vault automatically captures and encrypts your clipboard history, making it searchable and accessible.

End-to-end encryption - All clipboard data is encrypted using SQLCipher
Cross-platform - Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux
Fast search - Quickly find clipboard items from your history
Global hotkeys - Access your clipboard from anywhere

Download the latest release for your platform from the Releases page.

Requirements:

Rust 1.70+
Node.js 18+
Yarn

# Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/densumesh/clip-vault.git cd clip-vault # Build the CLI tools cargo build --workspace --release # Build the desktop app cd clip-vault-app yarn install yarn build yarn tauri build

Clip Vault is built as a Rust workspace with integrated components:

clip-vault-core - Core library with encryption, storage, and data models
clip-vault-cli - Command-line interface for interacting with your vault
clip-vault-app - Desktop GUI application with integrated background monitoring

CLIP_VAULT_KEY - Vault password (bypasses interactive prompt)

Database: {data_dir}/clip-vault/clip_vault.db
Session cache: {cache_dir}/clip-vault/session.json

clip-vault/ ├── clip-vault-core/ # Core library (encryption, storage) ├── clip-vault-cli/ # Command-line interface ├── clip-vault-tests/ # Integration tests ├── clip-vault-app/ # Desktop application │ ├── src/ # React frontend │ └── src-tauri/ # Tauri backend └── .github/workflows/ # CI/CD pipelines

# Check all workspace crates cargo check --workspace # Build all crates cargo build --workspace # Run CLI (requires setup first) cargo run -p clip-vault-cli -- setup cargo run -p clip-vault-cli -- latest # Run desktop app in development cd clip-vault-app yarn tauri dev

# Run all tests cargo test --workspace # Run specific crate tests cargo test -p clip-vault-core