Launching today
Ortu remembers everything you copy — text, images, files — so you can paste it again instantly, from any app. Full-text search, paste stack, secret masking with encryption, smart auto-grouping. 100% local, no account, open source. macOS, Windows & Linux.
tauri + sqlite fts5 + no electron is a good sign for something that's meant to sit quietly in the background all day. one question on the secret masking - since it's presumably detecting secrets by pattern (known token/key shapes) rather than a hardcoded list, what happens to an arbitrary sensitive string that doesn't match a recognized pattern, like a random internal password someone pastes that isn't formatted like an API key? does it fall back to encrypting everything at rest regardless of whether it was flagged as a secret, or is the AES-256 specifically reserved for things that got detected? the headline feature is "secret masking" so i'd want to know if there's a safety net under it.
@galdayan Great question, and worth being precise about: AES-256 is field-level, reserved for flagged items... it's not whole-database encryption. Two paths get an item encrypted + masked: (1) the classifier flags it (it's score-based structural detection, entropy, token shapes, key/value context... not a hardcoded regex list, so it catches more than just known API-key formats, but it's still heuristic), or (2) you mark any item sensitive manually, that's the safety net for the random internal password case. Manually-marked items get the same AES-256-GCM treatment, masked in the UI and revealed on demand.
So today, an arbitrary string the classifier misses and you don't mark stays plaintext in the local SQLite DB (which never leaves your machine). There's also a one-click pause-capture toggle for moments you don't want anything recorded. An opt-in "encrypt everything at rest" mode is a fair ask and it's on my radar, the design (per-field enc:v1: tagging with a local 0600 key file) was built so that can be layered on. Appreciate you pushing on the headline claim 🙏
Curious how the search holds up when the paste stack gets into the thousands — does it stay snappy or is there a noticeable slowdown over time?
@nimet3paw It stays snappy 🙂 Search isn't a table scan — it hits a SQLite FTS5 full-text index that's kept in sync by triggers on every insert/update/delete, with a fuzzy re-ranker on top of the match results. FTS5 handles tens of thousands of rows without breaking a sweat, so thousands of clips is well within comfortable territory. On top of that, retention is configurable (age-based or a max-items cap, pinned/grouped items always kept), so the DB stays bounded by default rather than growing forever. If you ever do feel a slowdown, that's a bug — file an issue and I'll dig in.
Finally tried it last night and the auto-grouping actually caught me off guard — it just figured out what belonged together without me tagging anything. Local-only and no account is the cherry on top.
@douakrimdriss That's exactly the moment I hoped people would hit... it quietly working out what's code, links, colors, etc. without any tagging ceremony. And yeah, local-only with no account isn't a growth strategy, it's the whole point 😄 Thanks for giving it a real evening's use!
finally a clipboard manager that doesn't try to sync to some random cloud. The full-text search over old copies is genuinely useful, found a snippet I'd lost weeks ago in seconds.
@ezgiirru "Found a snippet I'd lost weeks ago in seconds"... that's the exact use case that made me build the FTS5 search, so this comment made my day. And no random cloud, ever: everything stays in a local SQLite file on your machine. Thanks for trying it! 🙏
finally a clipboard manager that actually feels private. the local-only setup and secret masking sealed it for me, and full-text search across old snippets is a small thing that changed how i work daily.
@kazma5wq Thank you! Privacy-first was the founding constraint, not a feature checkbox... local-only storage, secret masking with encryption at rest for flagged items, and a pause-capture toggle when you want nothing recorded. Really glad the search is earning a place in your daily flow 🙌
Been hunting for a clipboard manager that actually keeps images and files intact, and this one nailed it. The local-only encryption for sensitive stuff is a nice touch I didn't know I needed.
@feride153647 Thanks! Images and files were honestly the hardest part to get right.. there's a content-addressed blob store underneath so image history doesn't balloon your disk with duplicates. And glad the sensitive-item encryption landed as a "didn't know I needed it"... that's the best kind of feature 😄