The clipboard manager Windows should have built
Beetroot keeps your clipboard history and can read text from images using AI. Right-click any clip to fix grammar, translate, or summarize it. Search across thousands of clips with accent folding and regex. Never steals focus. Code preview with ML language detection. Built in Rust on Tauri, no Electron.
Data stays in a local SQLite database on your machine. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Free installer · Works offline
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Four short clips of the things Beetroot does every day.
Smart search across clipboard history
AI text transform with one right-click
9 themes + Auto mode
Settings & customization
If you already use Win+V, this is what Beetroot adds.
| Feature | Win+V | Beetroot |
|---|---|---|
| AI text transforms | No | 5 providers + local, background processing |
| AI vision (image analysis) | No | OCR, describe, extract data, translate |
| Source app tracking | No | Icon, name, window title (Java/Electron too) |
| Search | No | 5-phase + accent folding + regex |
| OCR | No | Native Windows OCR |
| History limit | 25 clips | Unlimited |
| Persists across reboots | No | Yes (SQLite) |
| Themes | No | 9 + Auto mode |
| Multi-monitor | No | Follows cursor |
| No-focus mode | Yes | Yes — never steals focus |
| Pin on top | No | Pin + drag anywhere |
| Languages | System only | 26 languages |
| Keyboard layouts | No | AZERTY, QWERTZ, AltGr |
Right-click any text clip to transform it with AI: fix grammar, translate, summarize, rewrite. Right-click any image to analyze it: read text, extract data, describe, translate. 10 text prompts and 5 vision prompts built in, plus your own custom ones. All transforms run in the background, so the UI never freezes.
Five cloud providers: OpenAI GPT-5.4, Google Gemini 2.5 (free tier), Anthropic Claude, DeepSeek, plus local models via LM Studio, Ollama (llava, bakllava, moondream for vision), or llama.cpp for fully offline use. Privacy FAQ
Find anything by exact match, word-boundary, or Levenshtein for typos. Five search phases with accent folding so "café" matches "cafe". Results are ranked by relevance, so the right clip is always on top. Filter by type: text, images, starred, notes. Press Space to preview any clip with ML-powered syntax highlighting for 54 programming languages.
Copy a screenshot of code, extract text with OCR, paste as editable text. Uses native Windows OCR, works offline, no cloud.
Every copy you make (text, images, code) is saved and searchable forever. Survives reboots. Pin the important stuff. Set auto-cleanup after 1, 7, or 30 days.
Ctrl+1..9 quick paste, Ctrl+C copy without pasting, configurable plain text paste hotkey, Alt+T transform (or Shift+F10 from keyboard), Space preview, global hotkey to show/hide. AZERTY, QWERTZ, and AltGr layouts supported. Keyboard layout is detected instantly: switch with Win+Space and hotkey labels update on the fly. All shortcuts configurable in Settings → Shortcuts.
Select multiple clips and copy them all at once with a custom separator. Merge clips in seconds.
Add notes to any clip. Tag, annotate, and find clips by your own labels. Filter by Notes tab.
Native Windows 11 window effects with a translucent background. Mica for the title bar, Acrylic for the content area. On Windows 10, Beetroot uses a solid background instead.
Everything is stored in a local SQLite database on your machine. With auto-update off and no API key configured, Beetroot makes zero network requests.
Beetroot keeps three rotating database backups plus a snapshot before every update. If the database gets corrupted, Beetroot restores from the most recent backup and shows a notification.
Auto-backup with rotation: three timestamped copies, always ready
Automatic recovery from corruption with no data loss
Warns if your data sits in OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, where sync conflicts can corrupt databases
Checks for USB and network drives, warns before writing to unreliable storage
Beetroot never steals focus from the app you are typing in. Open it with your hotkey, browse and paste, and your cursor stays where it was, just like Win+V.
Pin it on top and drag between monitors. Or switch to follow-cursor mode, where the window pops up wherever your mouse is.
Five window position presets (center, corners). Window remembers its position and size between sessions.
Beetroot Dark & Light, Tokyo Night Storm, Gruvbox, GitHub Light Pro, Nord Snow, Cyberpunk Dark & Light. Auto mode follows your Windows theme. Pick an accent color. Mica and Acrylic window effects on Windows 11.
Pure Dark uses true OLED #000000 black. On OLED displays, black pixels are completely off, so there is zero light bleed and zero power draw. Pair it with any accent color.
Read the v1.6.6 release notes for the full story behind the latest update.
scoop bucket add beetroot https://github.com/mnardit/scoop-bucket
scoop install beetrootI used Paste on macOS for years. When I switched to Windows, the built-in Win+V felt like a toy — 25-clip limit, no search, gone after reboot. Ditto works but looks like it is from 2005. So I built the clipboard manager I wanted to use every day.
— Max Nardit
%APPDATA%.scoop update beetroot.See the full changelog on GitHub Releases.
Release notes, tips, and deep dives about Beetroot.
Excel and Word cells were captured as screenshots instead of values. Microsoft Store autostart was silently broken. Image thumbnails ate gigabytes of RAM. v1.6.6 fixes all three, plus a stack of security and reliability work after the big 1.6.5 AI Vision release.
Beetroot v1.6.5: AI Vision lets your clipboard read images (OCR, describe, extract, translate). Background AI job queue. All providers in native Rust.
Beetroot v1.6.4: customizable copy overlay (position, duration, animation) and three content-aware preview modes for text, code, and images.
System-wide 'Copied' overlay confirms every clipboard capture. Fixed images copied from Explorer. OpenAI models upgraded to GPT-5.4. Security hardening.
A hotfix for v1.6.1's content truncation — AI transforms, preview, and copy were silently working with partial text. Plus Alt+T toggle and filter count fixes.
Beetroot v1.6.1: keyboard input rewritten for no-focus mode, refreshed preview panel with arrow navigation, fixes for v1.6.0 regressions.
Beetroot's search engine moved to Rust — accent folding, typo tolerance, prefix matching. Plus a no-focus window that doesn't interrupt your workflow.
Why Fuse.js fails on clipboard data and how I rewrote search in Rust over 8 iterations: same-field matching, Unicode word boundaries, scored merge.
Beetroot v1.5.1: VS Code's TensorFlow.js model detects 54 languages. Rewritten search engine — 'local v' returns 9 results instead of 98.
Multi-provider AI in Tauri: OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama. Three integration patterns and a Rust proxy that solves localhost CORS.
Beetroot now supports OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and local models. Plus AI sparkles, Ollama presets, and smarter source app tracking.
Free with all features. AI text and vision transforms work with 5 cloud providers (Gemini free tier included) or fully offline with local models via Ollama or LM Studio.
