Beetroot

Beetroot is a clipboard manager for Windows featuring unlimited history, fuzzy search, native OCR text extraction, and AI-powered text transformations. Built with Rust and React using Tauri, it offers multiple themes and support for six languages. It operates offline except for AI functions which require a personal API key.

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• AI text transformations. Ten built-in prompts plus custom user-defined commands. Grammar correction, translation to any language, summarization, and format normalization are available via right-click on any clipboard entry. Powered by GPT-5 using your own API key (Bring Your Own Key). Only the selected text is sent to the API.
• OCR text extraction. Uses the native Windows OCR engine to extract text from screenshots, images, or graphics copied to the clipboard. Functions completely offline, converting non-editable image content into selectable and pasteable text.
• Fuzzy and regex search. Locates any clipboard history item using approximate matching or regex patterns. Search results are visually highlighted. Filtering by content type is available for text, images, pinned items, or entries with notes.
• Unlimited persistent history. Stores all text and image history in a local SQLite database. Data persists across system reboots. Important items can be pinned, and automatic deletion can be configured after 1, 7, or 30 days.
• Syntax-highlighted preview. Pressing spacebar on a history item opens a detailed preview. Source code in JSON, HTML, CSS, and over 20 other languages is displayed with full syntax coloring.
• Batch operations. Multiple history entries can be selected and copied together in a single action. A custom separator can be defined to merge the content of several clipboard items.
• Notes on clipboard items. Each history entry supports user-added text notes. These notes can be used for tagging, annotation, and filtering content via a dedicated search tab.
• Complete keyboard shortcuts. Quick paste with Ctrl+1..9, transformation with Alt+T, preview with space, and a global hotkey to show or hide the main window. Supports AZERTY, QWERTZ keyboard layouts, and AltGr keys.
• Multi-monitor behavior. The main clipboard window always opens on the display where the cursor is currently located. It follows the user when working with multiple monitor configurations.
• Eight themes and auto mode. Includes Tokyo Night Storm, Gruvbox, GitHub Light Pro, Nord Snow, and Cyberpunk Dark & Light. Auto mode follows the Windows system theme. An accent color can be selected, and Glass or Frosted window effects are available on Windows 11.
• Ten language translations. The user interface is translated into English, Russian, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. Clipboard handling respects regional and locale settings.

Development of Beetroot was initiated by Max Nardit. The first stable version was created in 2026 after the developer migrated from macOS to Windows and could not find a clipboard manager with the required feature set. The program is written in Rust for the backend and system logic, uses React 19 and TypeScript for the user interface, and the Tauri v2 framework for native Windows integration. The database is SQLite. It incorporates the native Windows OCR API and is distributed free of charge with no telemetry.

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