ClipVault

Local-first clipboard for text, images, files, and video. Pinned snippets, folders, one-click insert into WhatsApp Web & Gmail.

You paste the same things into WhatsApp and Gmail dozens of times a day — the canned reply, the product screenshot, the demo video, the standard PDF, the explainer paragraph. The system clipboard holds exactly one thing at a time, and it forgets the moment you copy something new. Most "clipboard manager" extensions help with text history. They do not help with the rest. ClipVault is built for that rest. What it does ClipVault is a curated library of the snippets you reach for over and over. Save once, paste forever — without ever opening a settings panel. • Text snippets. Greetings, signatures, replies, addresses, product copy, code blocks. • Images. Logos, screenshots, memes, product photos. • Files. PDFs, docs, anything you re-send by attachment. • Videos. Short demos, MP4s, GIFs you actually send instead of describing. Open the popup with a single shortcut (Cmd+Shift+V by default), search in the bar at the top, click the snippet — it's copied to your clipboard, ready to paste. Why ClipVault is different Pinned snippets are first-class. Your top eight snippets live in a strip across the top of the popup, one click each. No scrolling, no folder hunting. Promote and demote pins with one keypress. A floating panel inside WhatsApp Web and Gmail. A small ClipVault button floats beside the message box. Click it, press Alt+Shift+V, or type // in the chat to open a searchable panel with all your snippets: text, images, files and video. Pick one with the arrow keys and Enter, and it goes straight into the message. Files are attached as if you had dragged them from your desktop. Drag the button anywhere you like and it remembers the spot. It never sends anything for you. Right-to-left done right. In Hebrew (or any RTL layout) the button and panel mirror correctly, the panel speaks your language, and mixed Hebrew/English snippets keep their order. Templates with fill-ins. Write {{date}}, {{time}} or {{weekday}} and they fill themselves in. Write {{Name}} and ClipVault asks for it before inserting; {{Size:S|M|L}} gives you a quick menu. Hebrew aliases like {{תאריך}} work too. Optional vault lock with encryption. Turn on a passcode and every snippet is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM (PBKDF2-SHA256, 600,000 iterations). The vault re-locks after a timeout you choose and whenever the browser closes. Backups exported while the lock is on stay encrypted. The passcode never leaves your device, so a forgotten passcode cannot be recovered. Folders and tags. Group templates by client, project, or context. Filter the list in the popup with a dropdown — no rearranging, no nesting nightmares. Bilingual interface. English and Hebrew, with proper RTL handling when a Hebrew snippet body is focused. The popup respects your browser locale and the manual override in settings. Quiet design. Coral on warm neutrals. Light by default, full dark mode that respects your system preference. No marketing pop-ups, no upgrade nudges, no telemetry banners. Privacy Nothing leaves your machine. ClipVault stores every snippet locally in your browser's IndexedDB. It makes zero network requests. No accounts, no sync server, no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reports. The unlimitedStorage permission only signals to Chrome that the database can grow past the default 10 MB cap as your library grows; the data is still on your disk. If you ever add cloud sync in a future version, it will be opt-in and accompanied by a clear policy update. The default forever is local. Who it is for • The support agent paving the same five paths through their help-desk and WhatsApp Web 50 times a day. • The recruiter sending the same six outreach templates with the same PDF job description through Gmail. • The bilingual operator switching between English and Hebrew snippets without breaking the UI. • Anyone who has muttered "I just had that thing copied a minute ago" and lost the next ten minutes finding it again. Disclaimer ClipVault is an independent open-source project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Meta Platforms, Inc. (operator of WhatsApp) or Google LLC (operator of Gmail). WhatsApp Web and Gmail are referenced by name solely to describe compatibility with their public web interfaces.