A keyboard-first
clipboard for Windows.
Press Alt twice. Paste from history, launch any app or Windows Setting, save reusable snippets. One 440 × 540 window. Local SQLite. No telemetry.
Free and MIT-licensed. Installs in seconds, uninstalls cleanly.
Built around four ideas
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One window
440 × 540. One tab strip. Categories filter clipboard items, snippets, apps, and Windows Settings, all in the same surface.
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One hotkey, always live
Double-tap Alt anywhere. The window appears at your cursor, the search field already has focus. mnml auto-launches with Windows so the hotkey is ready the moment you sign in.
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One paste
Click or press Enter. mnml hides, your previous window regains focus, Ctrl + V fires automatically.
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Local only, never your passwords
SQLite on disk. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry, no analytics. mnml honors the system "do not record" flag, so password-manager and browser-password content is never captured. The only network calls are the daily update check and, for links you copy, a favicon and title lookup; your copied text and images never leave your device. Full detail in the privacy policy.
What's in it
Searchable text, links, images
Whatever you copy lands in the history. Text, URLs (with favicons), PNG screenshots (rendered as 96 px thumbnails). Full-text search via SQLite FTS5 with a LIKE fallback. Pin items to keep them past the configurable rotation cap. Press Ctrl + a number to paste the first nine instantly. Pasting strips formatting, so you always get clean plain text.
Reusable text, labelled and pasted in one click
Save anything: email signatures, regex patterns, command-line incantations, addresses. Hover any clipboard row to one-click save it as a snippet, or write a new one with a label and content. Snippets live in their own SQLite table; they don't rotate out.
Apps + Windows Settings, all in the same search
Start-Menu shortcuts plus ~80 curated ms-settings:
deep links (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Display, Sound, Update, Privacy,
Accessibility, Game Bar, …) plus the classic
.msc / .cpl tools (Task Manager, Device
Manager, Registry Editor, Services, PowerShell, …). Type a few
letters and hit Enter.
Point at Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud. Your clipboard follows you.
Settings > Storage folder > pick any folder. mnml moves the SQLite database, snippets, and images there. Choose a synced folder and a fresh install on a second machine, pointed at the same place, picks up your full history instantly. One source of truth, no accounts, no cloud middleman.
Under the hood
- Renderer bundle
- 228 KB
- Runtime deps
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better-sqlite3,uiohook-napi,electron-updater - Window size
- 440 × 540, fixed
- Search
- FTS5 BM25 with LIKE fallback
- Foreground activation
- Native Win32 via PowerShell +
AttachThreadInput - Accessibility
- WCAG AA contrast both themes · keyboard nav across every section
Get it
One installer. No setup, no account, no first-run wizard. Lives in your tray and auto-launches with Windows so the hotkey is always one keypress away.
Download for WindowsFree, MIT-licensed, ~70 MB installed. Uninstall any time via Windows Settings. Questions or feedback: info@nxyz.art.