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Ortu
The clipboard manager for people who copy-paste for a living
Ortu remembers everything you copy — text, images, files — so you can paste it again instantly, from any app. Full-text search, paste stack, secret masking with encryption, smart auto-grouping. 100% local, no account, open source. macOS, Windows & Linux.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Abhijith, maker of Ortu.
Ortu started as a daily frustration: as an engineer I live in copy-paste.. deploy commands, snippets, tokens, URLs.. and my "system" was a giant text file I scrolled through a hundred times a day. Every switch broke my flow.
I work across Mac and Windows, and nothing out there fit: built-in clipboards are too shallow, and most third-party managers were either bloated or abandoned. So I built the one I wished existed.
What makes Ortu different:
🔒 Local-first, actually — no account, no telemetry, no cloud. Everything lives in a SQLite DB on your machine. It's MIT-licensed open source, so you can verify that. 🥞 Paste stack — queue several clips, then paste them one-by-one, in order, into any app. Killer for repetitive form-filling and terminal work. 🔎 Instant full-text search (SQLite FTS5) over everything you've copied — text, images, files. 🕵️ Secret masking — detected passwords/keys/tokens are masked and encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM). 🧠 Smart auto-grouping — URLs, code, JSON, shell commands sort themselves. 🪶 Native & tiny — Tauri (Rust) + SvelteKit, one small binary per platform. No Electron.
It's free on macOS, Windows, and Linux. I'd genuinely love feedback — feature requests, bug reports, or just how you manage your clipboard today. I'll be here all day! 🙏
Finally something that solves my clipboard chaos on Linux without making me log in. The auto-grouping is surprisingly smart, it actually separated a recipe from a hex color I copied moments apart.
Totally there with you on the need for better clipboards, one serious want of mine is to have cross device (even cross OS) clipboards. Have you looked into a solution for that at all?
finally a clipboard manager that actually feels private. the local-only setup and secret masking sealed it for me, and full-text search across old snippets is a small thing that changed how i work daily.
Curious how the search holds up when the paste stack gets into the thousands — does it stay snappy or is there a noticeable slowdown over time?
tauri + sqlite fts5 + no electron is a good sign for something that's meant to sit quietly in the background all day. one question on the secret masking - since it's presumably detecting secrets by pattern (known token/key shapes) rather than a hardcoded list, what happens to an arbitrary sensitive string that doesn't match a recognized pattern, like a random internal password someone pastes that isn't formatted like an API key? does it fall back to encrypting everything at rest regardless of whether it was flagged as a secret, or is the AES-256 specifically reserved for things that got detected? the headline feature is "secret masking" so i'd want to know if there's a safety net under it.
finally a clipboard manager that doesn't try to sync to some random cloud. The full-text search over old copies is genuinely useful, found a snippet I'd lost weeks ago in seconds.
Been hunting for a clipboard manager that actually keeps images and files intact, and this one nailed it. The local-only encryption for sensitive stuff is a nice touch I didn't know I needed.
Finally tried it last night and the auto-grouping actually caught me off guard — it just figured out what belonged together without me tagging anything. Local-only and no account is the cherry on top.
About Ortu on Product Hunt
“The clipboard manager for people who copy-paste for a living”
Ortu was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 18 upvotes and 15 comments, placing #14 on the daily leaderboard. Ortu remembers everything you copy — text, images, files — so you can paste it again instantly, from any app. Full-text search, paste stack, secret masking with encryption, smart auto-grouping. 100% local, no account, open source. macOS, Windows & Linux.
Ortu was featured in Productivity (655.8k followers), Open Source (68.6k followers) and Privacy (11.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 166.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Ortu?
Ortu was hunted by ABHIJITH P SUBASH. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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