No Ctrl+C. No right-click. No nothing.
Just select — Pluks does the rest.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Pluks makes copying effortless — highlight any phrase here and watch what happens.
Drag your cursor over any text, or double-click a word. Works in any app.
Pluks instantly snags it to your clipboard — before you even lift your finger.
Long-press wherever you want to paste. Your selection is already there — no Cmd+V needed.
Every selection is saved — up to 200 entries. Press Ctrl+Shift+V (or ⌘⇧V on Mac) to open the history overlay instantly from any app. Search, click, done.
One 10-second setup step. Then never think about it again. Select text → it's in your clipboard. Why the setup step? →
Under 10 MB. Uses virtually no CPU or RAM. Built in Rust with Tauri — not Electron.
Your selections never leave your machine. We collect anonymous, opt-out usage stats and crash reports — that's it. No cloud sync, no account, no content of what you copy is ever sent. How we use analytics →
One universal Mac binary for Apple Silicon and Intel, living in your menu bar. On Windows 10/11 (beta) it sits in the system tray — same select-to-copy, zero setup.
Lives in your system tray. Enable, disable, or quit from a right-click menu.
The honest version — including the rows where the other tools win. Facts checked June 2026; follow the links for each project's latest.
| pluks select-to-copy | Maccy menu-bar manager | Paste Apple-ecosystem manager | Raycast launcher with clipboard | CopyQ power-user manager | Ditto Windows manager | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copies the moment you select — no Ctrl+C | ✓its whole job | ✗copy first | ✗copy first | ✗copy first | ~Linux/X11 only | ✗copy first |
| Searchable clipboard history | ✓200 clips | ✓200 by default | ✓unlimited | ✓3 months on free plan1 | ✓unlimited | ✓unlimited |
| Price | Free | Free2 | $9.99/yr or lifetime | Free core · Pro $8/mo1 | Free | Free |
| Platforms | macOS · Windows (beta) | macOS | macOS · iPhone · iPad | macOS · Windows · iOS | Windows · macOS · Linux | Windows |
| Images & files in history | ✗text only, for now | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pin & organize clips | ✗not yet | ✓pins | ✓pinboards | ✓pins | ✓tabs & tags | ✓groups |
| Sync between devices | ✗ | ✗ | ✓iCloud | ✗clips never sync3 | ✗ | ✓LAN only, encrypted |
| Clips stay off the cloud | ✓always | ✓always | ~private iCloud when syncing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓peer-to-peer LAN |
| Skips password fields | ✓automatic | ✓automatic4 | ✓automatic4 | ✓automatic4 | ~manual ignore rules | ~manual excludes |
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Windows 10/11, 64-bit. Install- and run-tested on every release, but newer than the Mac app — the feedback button (bottom right) reaches us directly.
Download .msiPluks is local-first, but anonymous usage data and crash reports help us fix bugs and prioritize what to build next. Here's exactly what we do.
macOS doesn't let apps read "whatever text is currently selected" directly. So Pluks does what you would do: the moment you finish a selection, it presses ⌘+C for you. Sending that synthetic keystroke is exactly what the Accessibility permission gates, and noticing your selection gesture (the mouse drag or double-click) is what Input Monitoring gates. Granting them is the one-time, ~10-second setup step.
Here's everything the code does with that access:
It never reads your screen, never logs what you type, and the text you copy never leaves your machine. Pluks only ever sends a synthetic copy command to the app you're already using — nothing about your selection is stored or transmitted.
On Windows there's no equivalent permission step — global input listening and clipboard access work out of the box, so Pluks runs the moment it's installed.