Local-first clipboard history for keyboard-driven people.
Hit a hotkey, find anything you've copied, paste it back — nothing leaves your machine.

_{Copy anywhere → ⌘⇧V → search → ↩ pastes it back into the app you were in.}

What you can do

Instant partial-match search Type part of a word and the clip surfaces at once — fast even on huge histories. Japanese / CJK matches kana-insensitively too — search ひらがな and find カタカナ — with single-kanji recall.	Secrets scrubbed before they touch disk API keys, tokens, cards and OTPs (one-time codes; detection can be turned off in Settings → Privacy) are redacted on capture — a clip that is nothing but the secret is dropped instead of stored — and clips your password manager marks "do not record" are skipped entirely. Everything stays in a local SQLite file — no cloud.
Built to be scanned Language badges on code, brand badges on known URLs, and dimensions + a Screenshot hint on images — the clip you want jumps out of the list.	On-device AI actions (macOS) Summarize, translate, rewrite, explain code — backed by Apple's on-device models. Opt-in, off by default, and nothing leaves your Mac.

Tip

Power users: drive all of this from the nagori CLI with JSON output — handy for scripts and AI agents. See Usage.

Install

Download bundles from GitHub Releases. The nagori CLI ships inside the desktop bundle — there is one app to install and update.

macOS 26+ (Apple Silicon / Intel)

brew install --cask mhiro2/tap/nagori

The Homebrew cask also links the bundled nagori CLI onto your PATH. For a direct .dmg install instead, drag Nagori.app to /Applications, then clear the quarantine flag (the bundle is unsigned, so Gatekeeper warns on first launch):

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Nagori.app

Windows 10 1809+ / 11 (x86_64)

Run the NSIS installer (.exe) from Releases. It is not yet Authenticode-signed, so SmartScreen warns on first launch — choose More info → Run anyway.

Linux (Wayland, x86_64)

# Debian / Ubuntu
sudo apt install ./nagori_*_amd64.deb wtype

# or run the AppImage directly
chmod +x Nagori_*_amd64.AppImage && ./Nagori_*_amd64.AppImage

Auto-paste needs the wtype binary on $PATH (pacman -S wtype on Arch) and a Wayland compositor that exposes wlr_data_control or ext_data_control (sway, Hyprland, KDE Plasma 5.27+, river, …). GNOME Wayland and X11 are not supported. Global hotkeys do not register on pure Wayland (toggle the palette from the tray icon). See docs/platforms.md for the full compatibility matrix and troubleshooting.

Usage

1. Launch the desktop app — it starts the background daemon and registers a global hotkey (default Cmd+Shift+V on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows/Linux). On Linux Wayland the registration fails and you toggle the palette from the tray icon instead.
2. Press the hotkey to open the palette, type to search, arrow keys to navigate, Enter to paste the highlighted entry back into the previous window. Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Enter pastes in an alternate format — and opens a picker when the entry can be pasted as more than one (files / image / text). Right-click a row for a context menu with the same actions (paste, copy, paste as…, pin, Actions…, delete) so they are reachable by mouse.
3. Use Settings for privacy and hotkey configuration. Run nagori doctor if something feels off; the desktop app mirrors the same capability matrix under Settings → Advanced → Platform capabilities.

The CLI talks to the running app, so writes such as nagori add or nagori paste show up in the palette immediately (toggle under Settings → CLI).

nagori list --limit 10            # recent clips
nagori search "kubectl"           # full-text search
nagori paste <id>                 # copy + auto-paste an entry
nagori capabilities               # what this OS build supports

Full CLI reference: docs/cli.md.

FAQ

Where is my data stored? ~/Library/Application Support/nagori (macOS), %LOCALAPPDATA%\nagori (Windows), or $XDG_DATA_HOME/nagori (Linux). The OS may also keep app preferences, caches, and logs in its own platform-specific locations, but your clipboard history stays in the data directory above.

Is the database encrypted? No, and app-level encryption is intentionally deferred — full-disk encryption (FileVault / BitLocker / LUKS) is the at-rest baseline. The DB has restrictive permissions (0600 / 0700) but the bytes on disk are plaintext, so anything running as your user can read your history. Keep the data directory off cleartext sync targets — Settings → Privacy and nagori doctor both warn if it sits inside iCloud Drive / Dropbox / OneDrive. Settings also offers Delete entries permanently, Purge deleted entries now, Clear non-pinned history on quit, retention limits, and Block all sensitive captures. The full posture is in docs/privacy.md and ARCHITECTURE.md §19.

Do the AI features send my clipboard to the cloud? No. The macOS-only AI actions and semantic search are opt-in (off by default) and run Apple's on-device models locally — no clipboard text is sent to a remote API and the Private Cloud Compute path is not used. They need macOS 26+; the text-generation actions additionally require Apple Silicon with Apple Intelligence enabled, while Translate and semantic search depend on OS-downloaded language packs / embedding assets. See docs/privacy.md and docs/platforms.md.

Full feature list

• Persistent clipboard history (text, images, file lists) stored locally in SQLite, searchable from a desktop palette or the nagori CLI.
• Japanese / CJK partial-match search: kana-insensitive (a Katakana clip is found by a Hiragana query and vice versa) with single-kanji recall, on top of full-text and ASCII fuzzy matching.
• Recall-oriented result rows: a language badge on code (JSON / SQL / Rust / …, detected on-device), a strong-brand badge on known URLs (GitHub / YouTube / …, from the hostname alone — no network), and pixel dimensions, file size, and a Screenshot hint on image rows.
• Built-in secret classifier that redacts API keys, JWTs, AWS / GitHub tokens, PEM blocks, credit-card numbers, and OTPs (one-time codes; the OTP check can be disabled in Settings → Privacy) before they are written to disk — a clip that redacts down to nothing but the secret is dropped rather than stored — plus a user regex denylist for project-specific patterns.
• Honors the "do not record" clipboard markers password managers and apps set on every platform (macOS, Windows, and KDE on Linux) — a marked clip is skipped without being stored. The exact markers are in docs/privacy.md.
• Auto-paste back into the previously focused window, with a paste as… picker (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Enter) to paste a file as Files, Image, or Plain text.
• Quick actions on a selected entry, computed locally with no network calls: summarize, format JSON, extract tasks, redact secrets.
• macOS on-device AI actions (opt-in, off by default): summarize, rewrite, reformat Markdown, extract tasks, explain code, and translate — backed by Apple's on-device models, running entirely on your Mac.
• Optional on-device semantic search (opt-in, macOS): matches entries by meaning using Apple's on-device embeddings, indexed locally.
• Rich previews: image thumbnails with an expanded zoom / pan view (⌘/Ctrl E), a head / tail view for long text, safe URL display with a confirm-gated open, and Quick Look on macOS (Cmd+Y).
• Per-OS installers, with an in-app check for new releases that links you to the download (it does not auto-install).

Documentation

• ARCHITECTURE.md — workspace layout and runtime topology.
• docs/platforms.md — compatibility matrix and per-OS notes.
• docs/privacy.md — privacy model, redaction, denylist.
• docs/cli.md — CLI reference.
• docs/ipc.md — IPC envelope and transport.

License

Licensed under the MIT License.