Ropy Organizes Previous Yanks

Cross-platform, lightweight clipboard manager written in Rust and GPUI.

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Features

• Native desktop application built with Zed's GPUI.
• Cross-platform support for Windows, macOS, and Linux (X11).
• Tracks text, image, and file path clipboard history with content-based deduplication.
• Search the loaded history with case-sensitive and whole-word options.
• Favorite and pin records; automatic cleanup preserves pinned and favorited items.
• Preview text and images with a configurable hover delay.
• Configurable global hotkey, theme, language, autostart, and confirm mode.
• System tray integration plus in-app update check, download, and install flow.

Installation

Pre-built Binaries

Download the latest binaries from the Releases page.

macOS

After downloading the .dmg file and dragging Ropy.app to the Applications folder, you may need to remove the quarantine attribute to run the application without issues. Open Terminal and run the following commands:

xattr -rc /Applications/Ropy.app
sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Ropy.app

Build from source

Ensure you have Rust installed (via rustup). Then:

git clone https://github.com/StudentWeis/ropy.git
cd ropy
cargo build --release
./target/release/ropy

Usage

• Launch Ropy to start recording clipboard history.
• Use the global hotkey or the tray icon to open the history window.
• Press / to focus search, then refine results with case-sensitive, whole-word, and type filters.
• Use Up/Down or J/K to move through items, and Enter or 1-5 to confirm a selection.
• Press Space to toggle preview, F to favorite the selected record, and Delete or D to remove it.
• Use row actions to pin records so they are excluded from storage cleanup.
• Choose between copy_to_clipboard and paste_immediately confirm modes in Settings.

Limitations (Not planned)

• The system clipboard does not expose the original application source for copied items.
• Plugin/extension system: no current plans — Ropy focuses on simplicity and small footprint.
• Cloud sync: not supported at this time.
• Command-line mode: Ropy is designed primarily as a GUI application.

Acknowledgements

• Inspired by clipboard managers such as Ditto, Maccy and CopyQ.
• Thanks to the Rust community and all upstream projects used by Ropy.
• System Clipboard API: clipboard-rs
• GUI library: Zed's gpui
• GUI components: gpui-component
• Global hotkey: global-hotkey
• Tray icon helper: tray-icon
• Embedded DB: sled
• Configuration: config-rs