Clipboard History Manager

🎯 Why Clipboard History Manager? You copy something important. Then you copy something else. The first one is gone, overwritten, and there is no way to get it back. Every browser user has lost code, links, addresses, and carefully-worded sentences to this exact problem. Clipboard History Manager fixes the way Chrome handles copy and paste. Every text and image you copy is saved automatically, locally, on your own device. Open the popup, scroll your full archive, click to re-copy. Nothing is ever lost again. Built around privacy, speed, and a small permission footprint that respects you. 🚀 How It Works The setup takes zero clicks. Install the extension and your copy buffer starts building itself: ▸ Copy normally. Ctrl+C, right-click copy, screenshots, drag-to-anywhere. ▸ Click the toolbar icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+V) to open the popup. ▸ Click any past entry to instantly bring it back, ready to paste anywhere. It runs invisibly in the background through Chrome's modern offscreen API, with no access to the pages you browse. It captures only what you put on the system pasteboard, and only on your machine. 👥 Perfect For 💻 Developers Keep code snippets, regex patterns, terminal commands, and Stack Overflow answers at your fingertips. Pin the boilerplate you reuse and let Ctrl+Shift+1 through 9 paste it back instantly. This is a snippet manager and copy buffer tracker in one tool. ✍️ Writers and Researchers Quotes, citations, links, and reference passages collect themselves as you read. Search across the entire archive to find that one sentence you copied two days ago. 📞 Customer Support Teams Stop pasting from a shared Google doc. Save canned replies as pinned text blocks at the top of the popup, and reply five times faster. 🎨 Designers and Marketers Hex codes, copy variants, screenshots, and inspiration images are all captured. Smart categories tag URLs, colors, and code automatically. 💼 Anyone Who Copies and Pastes If your work involves moving information between apps, this is one of those tools you wonder how you lived without. Think of it as a multi-buffer paste history for Chrome. ✨ Key Features ✅ Universal Copy and Paste History Every text you copy is saved, in order, with timestamps and source domain. ✅ Pinned Snippets at the Top (Pro) Reusable text blocks for canned replies, email signatures, and license headers. Always pinned, always one click away. ✅ Image Clip Support (Pro) Screenshots and copied images are captured, thumbnailed, and re-copyable as PNG. ✅ Smart Auto-Categories (Pro) Entries are tagged URL, email, code, color, phone, IP, address, number with colored chips and one-click filters. ✅ Hotkey Paste 1 through 9 (Pro) Ctrl+Shift+1 through Ctrl+Shift+9 brings back any of your top nine entries without opening the popup. A real keyboard-first paste workflow. ✅ Instant Search and Keyboard Navigation Search the entire copy history in milliseconds. Arrow keys to move, Enter to copy. ✅ Find and Replace (Pro) Bulk-rewrite text inside all saved entries at once. ✅ Pinned Favorites, Auto-Cleanup, Per-Entry Expiry Keep what matters, prune what doesn't. Set custom expiry on individual items. 📖 How to Use Clipboard History Manager Follow these steps to get the most out of your saved entries: → Install the extension and pin its icon to the Chrome toolbar. → Copy a few things, the way you normally would. → Click the icon or press Ctrl+Shift+V to open the popup. → Use the search box to find any entry across your history. → Click any item to re-copy it, then paste with Ctrl+V. 💡 Pro Tips: 💡 Pin your three most-used phrases so they always sit at the top of the popup. 💡 Add banking sites and password managers to the ignored-sites filter for peace of mind. 💡 Save a custom text block for your email signature and stop retyping it forever. 💡 Press Escape inside the popup to clear the search, or to close it if the search is empty. 💡 Use the Export to JSON button to back up your saved entries before a Chrome reinstall. ❓ Frequently Asked Questions Q: Is my data ever sent anywhere? A: No. Every entry is stored locally in chrome.storage.local. There is no server in the loop and no network call ever carries copied content. Q: Does this read what I copy in my password manager? A: Only if you copy something yourself. To skip sensitive sites entirely, add them to the ignored-sites filter (Pro), for example bitwarden.com, 1password.com, lastpass.com. Q: Does it work offline? A: Yes. The extension has no online dependency for core copy and paste tracking. Pro license verification is the only network call, and it sends nothing but an anonymous device ID. Q: Does it work on every website? A: Yes. Unlike older similar tools, this extension does NOT request the broad host permission to read and modify pages you visit. Capture happens in a hidden offscreen document, completely independent from the tabs you browse. Q: What happens at the 50-entry free cap? A: The oldest non-pinned entry is removed to make room for a new one. Pin important items to keep them forever. Q: Can I export and import my saved entries? A: Export to JSON is on every plan. Import from a previous JSON backup is a Pro feature, useful when you set up a new Chrome profile or device. ⚡ Performance and Compatibility • Chrome Manifest V3 compliant, built on the modern offscreen document API • No content scripts, no host permissions, no access to your web pages • Five permissions total: clipboardRead, clipboardWrite, storage, alarms, offscreen • Translated into 53 locales, with right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian • Works in Chrome 116+ on Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS • Lightweight: under 400 KB packaged, no remote code, no telemetry 🏆 Why Choose Clipboard History Manager? ✓ Privacy-first by design, your data never leaves your device ✓ Minimal permission footprint, no host permissions and no page access ✓ Modern offscreen architecture, not the legacy content-script approach ✓ A real Pro …