Clipboard history
Text, images, files and rich text, searchable as you type. Pin what you need often, add a note, and paste with Enter.
macOS · Windows · Linux · Open source
One hotkey.
Everything you copy.
Press Ctrl+Space for your clipboard history, snippets and 66 commands — screenshots, OCR, translation, weather and system tools. Local, encrypted, no account.
Runs on
- macOS
- Windows
- Linux
A popup that does far more than paste
Text expander
Type an abbreviation and get the full text — with placeholders for the date, the clipboard or the cursor position. Works in terminals too.
66 commands in the search bar
Calculate, convert units, translate, check the weather, generate passwords or QR codes. Add ? to any command for its help.
Screen tools
Screenshots with an annotation editor, text recognition (OCR) from any screen region, screen recording to MP4 and a colour picker with a magnifier.
System at your fingertips
Monitor brightness, audio output, disk usage, cache clean-up, live system stats, world clock and calendar — each opens right in the popup.
Private by design
Everything lives in a local database; clipboard contents, snippets and 2FA secrets are encrypted with AES-256-GCM. No account, no telemetry.
Panels that open right in the popup
Install in three steps
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1
Download for your system
DMG for Macs with Apple silicon, MSI installer or portable exe for Windows, .deb or AppImage for Linux.
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2
Allow the first launch
On macOS, move the app to Applications and run
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/InspectorRust.apponce. On Windows, SmartScreen may ask — choose More info → Run anyway. -
3
Press Ctrl+Space
The popup opens wherever you are. On macOS, grant Accessibility once so pasting and the expander can type for you.
Check what you downloaded
- InspectorRust_0.185.0_aarch64.dmg
07e7349b04fe08ee6519716c10621c7e026341bd9de825679d8f22aee6deebc2- InspectorRust_0.185.0_x64_en-US.msi
58fb17d95d29fef0f67734f330a45b7bf203604d2718b71b00766fdfad33acc3- inspector-rust.exe
64c92c28cff308f1b1012081e2b533a013bc50af9ed57457d887195c199e7dc5- InspectorRust_0.185.0_amd64.deb
d4d1590caa4617fdda3c46724c8c74d23e41b61732cafd9e4ff4c88b030bb548- InspectorRust_0.185.0_amd64.AppImage
554f4d17ca7d2468d1185665d560620b4f8b52826448c9fe8277aede145490c4
Compare the file with the SHA-256 shown here: shasum -a 256 on macOS and Linux, Get-FileHash in PowerShell.
Releases are not notarized by Apple and not signed with a Windows certificate — both cost a yearly fee. That is why macOS and Windows ask once on the first launch. Every release is built by GitHub Actions from the public source.
Questions
Is Inspector Rust free?
Yes. It is free and open source under the MIT licence, with no account, no ads and no telemetry.
Does it send my clipboard anywhere?
No. The history stays in a local SQLite database, and its contents are encrypted at rest. The app only goes online for commands that need it, such as weather or translation, and only when you run them.
Which systems does it run on?
macOS 11 or later on Apple silicon, Windows 10 and 11 (x64), and Linux x86-64 (.deb for Ubuntu 24.04+ and Debian 13, or the AppImage). There is no build for Intel Macs, because the on-device background-removal model's runtime has no Intel macOS binary.
macOS says the app is damaged. What now?
It is not. The release is not notarized, so macOS marks the download as quarantined. Move the app to Applications and run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/InspectorRust.app once in Terminal.
Can I change the hotkey?
Yes. Ctrl+Space is the default; the popup hotkey, a second clipboard-history hotkey and the feature hotkeys for OCR, screenshots, colour picker and recording can all be changed in the settings.
How do I back up my data?
Settings has a password-protected export and import of history, snippets, notes, 2FA entries and settings, plus optional scheduled backups into a folder of your choice.
Like the app?
Inspector Rust is free, has no ads and stays that way. A small donation keeps it maintained — and a review of celox.io on Google helps just as much.
Your data stays on your machine
Inspector Rust has no server and no account. Clipboard contents, snippets, notes and 2FA secrets are encrypted with a key kept in your system keychain. Commands that need the internet, such as weather or translation, contact their provider only when you run them.