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PasteBucket

The clipboard your computer should have shipped with.

The clipboard has held exactly one thing since 1974. PasteBucket fixes that: hold Ctrl+C and everything you copy stacks up in order — press Ctrl+V and it pours back out in order. Nothing to learn, nothing to configure.

The PasteBucket tray HUD showing a live queue of five copied items, the next item to paste highlighted in blue.
How it works

Copy. Queue. Paste. Repeat.

HOLD+Ctrl+C

Arm the queue

Tap Ctrl+C and it behaves exactly like always. Hold it for a beat and PasteBucket arms — every copy now stacks instead of overwriting.

Ctrl+C×N

Stack everything

Keep copying. A small tray HUD shows the live queue, numbered in order, with the next item to paste highlighted.

Ctrl+V

Pour it back out

Each paste releases the next item in FIFO order. Work through the whole queue without ever losing your place.

Built native

Small, sharp, local.

Hold Ctrl+C to stack

Hold the key you already use; each copy adds to the queue instead of replacing the last.

Ctrl+V pastes FIFO

Items come back out in the order you copied them — the next one is always queued and highlighted.

Tray-native HUD

No window to manage. A layered Win32 HUD renders the queue and stays out of your way.

80ms snap animations

Pure RGBA, solid borders, no blur — instant, native-feeling motion drawn straight into the window.

Clean clipboard hygiene

Transient writes are flagged to skip clipboard managers, and nothing about your clips is logged.

Local-first, no account

Open it and go. No sign-up, no cloud — what you copy never leaves your machine.

Why it exists

Built from a real annoyance.

I copy and paste all day. Between code, docs, prompts, and configs, I was constantly losing track of what I'd copied and what still needed to go where. PasteBucket is the simple queue I wished existed — hold Ctrl+C to stack, Ctrl+V to pour it back out. No accounts, no cloud, just a list you paste through.

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