Clipster is a multi platform cloud clipboard:
Copy a text or image on your smartphone and paste it on your desktop, or vice versa.
Easy, secure, open source.
Supports Android, Linux, MacOS, Windows and all browsers.
You can use the web front-end of the public server at clipster.cc.
For the Android client see Clipster-Android.
To run your own server check Clipster-Server.
There is an alternative Clipster-Desktop implementation written in Python.
Download clipster_linux.zip from the latest release and extract it. Then either run the binary clipster/usr/local/bin/clipster directly, or install it for your user with make user-install (or system wide with sudo make install) in the extracted clipster/ folder.
To have Clipster auto start, right click on the systray menu and select Autostart Clipster.
Clipster only needs OpenGL and X11 or Wayland, which every desktop has. Most distributions have them installed already. If not, on
Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install libgl1 libx11-6 libwayland-client0
Fedora/RHEL: sudo dnf install mesa-libGL libX11 libwayland-client
The systray needs StatusNotifier support. On GNOME install the AppIndicator extension.
Download clipster_win.zip from the latest release, extract it and run clipster_win.exe. It is a single file without any dependencies.
Windows may flag the downloaded file and refuse to run it. In that case, right click on clipster_win.exe, open Properties, tick Unblock in the General tab and click OK.
To have Clipster auto start, right click on the systray menu and select Autostart Clipster.
Download clipster_mac.zip from the latest release (works on Apple Silicon and Intel), extract, move it to Applications and start it via right-click -> open. You might get a warning message, that you need to ignore. If that fails:
Go to System Preferences --> Security & Privacy. In the General Tab the App will be listed and you can start it from there.
To have Clipster auto start, right click on the icon in your dock and select Options --> Open at Login.
You need Go (see go.mod for the version) and a C compiler. On Linux you also need the OpenGL and X11/Wayland development files. On Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt-get install gcc libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev libwayland-dev libxkbcommon-dev
go build -o build/clipster .
go test ./...The release packages are created with the fyne tool, which is pinned in go.mod:
go tool fyne package --os linux --release # Clipster.tar.xz
go tool fyne package --os windows --release # Clipster.exe, can be cross compiled with MinGW
go tool fyne package --os darwin --release # Clipster.appSee the build workflow for details, it also repacks them into the clipster_<os>.zip release files.
If you enabled Autostart Clipster, disable it in the systray menu first (on MacOS uncheck Open at Login). Then quit Clipster and:
- Linux: run
make user-uninstall(orsudo make uninstall) in the extractedclipster/folder, or delete the folder if you did not install it - Windows: delete
clipster_win.exe - MacOS: move
Clipster.appfromApplicationsto the trash
To also remove your config, delete the folder .config/clipster in your home folder.
On the first startup, you can register a new account or enter your existing credentials for the login. Your credentials will be stored in your home folder in .config/clipster/config.toml. Versions before 0.5.0 used config.yaml instead, so log in again after updating.
Clipster will add an Icon to your system tray which you can click for opening up a menu with the following options:
Get last Clip will fetch the last shared Clip from the server and put it into your clipboard.
Get all Clips will fetch all shared Clips from the server and display them to you.
Share Clip will share your current clipboard. Then, it's available for all your devices.
Edit Credentials allows you to register a new account or change your login credentials.
Autostart Clipster will add it to auto start.
Quit will terminate the app.
For a server with a self-signed certificate, Clipster shows its fingerprint on login. Check it and click Trust; Clipster then only accepts exactly this certificate. If it changes, trust it again under Edit Credentials. The old option No SSL certification check is gone, so log in again to trust your server.
Clips are encrypted on your device before they are sent, the server only stores encrypted data. Your password never leaves the device. See PRIVACY.md for the data the server sees.
Contributions are very welcome. If you come across a bug, please open an issue. The same goes for feature requests.
Clipster is licensed under the MIT License.