oioi
A floating clipboard overlay that pops up with Option + V
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A floating clipboard overlay that pops up with Option + V
290 followers
oioi is a minimalist clipboard overlay that appears instantly when you press Option + V. Inspired by macOS design, it helps you access your recent copies – text, code, images – without breaking flow. Perfect for devs, designers, writers, and multitaskers.
This is the 2nd launch from oioi. View more
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Launched this week
Press ⌥V and your clipboard history floats up in real liquid glass. Text, images and files, searchable. Free & open source for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Launch Team
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Now Supports Windows + Linux alongwith Mac,
Mac Installer Fixed and Everything works buttery smooth.
Give it a try . ITS FREE!!!
The "⌘V for instinct, ⌥V for memory" framing is the smartest part of this — sitting next to the system clipboard instead of trying to replace it is exactly where most managers overreach. As someone shipping a Mac app, curious whether the liquid-glass overlay is rendered natively per platform or one shared layer across macOS/Windows/Linux?
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@lennoxbeflying Hey Ziang ,
Appreciate that ..
yeah, the goal was never to replace ⌘V, just to give long-term memory its own door. Glad the framing landed.
On the glass: it's one shared layer, not native per-OS. oioi is Electron, so rather than lean on platform vibrancy (which is mac-only and can't be clipped to a custom corner radius anyway), the panel screenshots the desktop region behind itself via desktopCapturer, then blurs that as the backdrop in the renderer. So the exact same capture-and-blur path runs on macOS/Windows/Linux — the "glass" is real (it's the actual desktop, blurred), just done in Chromium instead of by each compositor. Tradeoff is it needs screen-capture permission on macOS; upside is pixel-identical everywhere and fully tunable (blur radius, frost, corners). There's also a zero-permission "Soft" panel for folks who don't want to grant capture.
Congrats on the launch. I like small tools that just fit into the workflow without adding more friction.
How are you handling privacy for clipboard content?
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@kuzmovych Thanks for using oioi
talking about privacy, i see two fillers where we can work on privacy ie clipboard items upload to cloud which is i feel not safe and another is wrapping or masking the sensitive items like passwd or api keys.
and so far oioi is too simple and stupid that it treat your passwd and cpoied items same ie never mask.
so i planned to introduce the provacy features in next roll ups of oioi...
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@harshchandgotia Hey Harsh
I don’t see it as replacing Command + V. That would be like replacing your hand because you built a better glove. ⌘V is still the fastest way to paste the last thing you copied.
oioi is more like giving ⌘V a sword.
When you need more than just “the last thing” maybe something you copied 20 minutes ago, an image, a file, or a snippet you use often, that’s where Option + V comes in. It’s a separate trigger and a separate layer of power.
The philosophy is simple.
⌘V for instinct. ⌥V for memory.
That’s how I avoid complexity. It evolves the clipboard instead of trying to replace it.
the "without breaking flow" pitch is the real test for any clipboard manager, and it usually comes down to whether the overlay closes itself cleanly after you pick something or whether you're left fumbling to dismiss it and get back to typing. curious what the actual interaction feels like after picking an item, does it auto-paste, auto-close, or require an extra step
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@ansari_adin Good Question Adin
If we talk about user experience, that was the first thing I took seriously while building oioi.
I kept asking myself: when a user presses the shortcut, is the popup actually fast enough? Are the entry and exit animations helping the flow, or are they becoming friction disguised as decoration? That question became the foundation of my design philosophy.
From there, every decision came from reducing friction — giving users the freedom to choose between a glassy or flat background, adding search directly into the stack so retrieval feels instant, and making it always-on-top on the Z-axis so it stays accessible over every window without breaking context.
But beyond shipping it, I wanted to make sure it was genuinely useful and not painful in real use. I used it myself for 15–16 days, shared it with friends, and asked them to be brutally honest. A lot of tuning came from that. Even small things, like the corner radius being too curvy, mattered — some people hated it, so I adjusted it.
Because in the end, UI and UX should never become the friction.
And the part you asked about really hit the core of what I was trying to solve, so thank you for asking that.
@vishesh_yadav5 the 15-16 days of dogfooding plus friend testing is exactly the right process, that's how the small stuff (corner radius, animation timing) actually gets caught. circling back to the original question though since I don't think it got covered: once you click an item in the overlay, does oioi auto-paste it for you, or does it just close and put it on the clipboard for you to paste yourself? curious specifically because that's the detail that determines if it saves a step over the system clipboard
Very clean and clear idea and website. Up to how many messages can the clipboard support in memory before it starts replacing the oldest with the newest messsage (text or photo). Congrats on the launch!
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@konstant_gk Thanks so much, really glad the idea and site landed for you! 🙏
On capacity: oioi keeps your most recent 50 items by default, and once it's full the oldest drops off as new ones come in (text and images alike .... same FIFO history).
It's a slider in Settings, so you can dial it anywhere from 10 up to 200 depending on how much scrollback you like. Appreciate the kind words and the launch wishes! 🦥
This looks like a massive workflow upgrade! Since marketers copy a million UTM links and hex codes a day, is there a way to 'pin' or 'star' frequently used items to the top of the overlay so they never get buried in the history?
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@andika_fadhilah hey andika,
Glad you like oioi,
pining the items sound like a feature upgrade to me,
i think i have to tackle this without disturbing the user flow,
hmm...intresting, stay tuned for the next upgrade,
thankyou.