AEBDevLabs / ClipEye
Windows 10/11 · 100% offline

The clipboard manager that reads your screenshots

Copy a screenshot — ClipEye extracts the text with offline OCR, keeps it searchable forever, and never sends a byte to the cloud. Paste text, not pixels.

One-time purchase · No subscription, no account, no ads

Stop pasting screenshots into ChatGPT & Claude

Every image you drop into an AI chat is billed as input tokens — and images are expensive. The text inside them usually isn't.

Screenshot pasted as image
~1,000+
input tokens for a typical screenshot*

The model has to process the entire image — window chrome, background, icons — just to read one error message. Slower answers, bigger bills, and you can't edit what it "sees".

Same content via ClipEye
~100
tokens as plain text*

ClipEye already extracted the text when you copied the screenshot. Paste exactly the lines that matter, trim the noise, and the model reads precisely what you meant.

Roughly 90% fewer input tokens on a typical error-message screenshot — on every paste, in every chat, with any AI.

*Approximate figures; exact token counts vary by model and image size. The OCR runs locally — using ClipEye costs zero tokens.

Beyond Win+V

ClipEye lives quietly in your tray and turns your clipboard into a searchable, private knowledge base.

❯Offline OCR

Copy any screenshot and ClipEye extracts the text automatically using the native Windows OCR engine — English and Portuguese. No internet involved.

❯Instant search

Full-text search with prefix matching across your whole history. Type three letters, hit paste. Works with error codes like ORA-1234 or CWE-79.

❯Post-OCR correction

Optional beta pass fixes classic OCR slips (0↔O, 1↔l) with offline EN and PT-BR dictionaries. The original text is always preserved.

❯Zero cloud

Everything is stored in a local database on your PC. Zero HTTP clients in the code, zero telemetry, no account. Verifiable, not just promised.

❯Privacy guards

Exclude apps you never want recorded — password managers, private browser windows. Privacy by default, under your control.

❯Your rules

Configurable retention (90 days by default, unlimited if you want). Pin important clips — pinned clips never expire. Export everything as JSON.

How it works

No setup ritual. Install it and keep working.

Copy anything

Text or screenshots — plain Ctrl+C, or your favorite snipping tool.

ClipEye records locally

Images get OCR'd in the background. Nothing leaves your PC.

Summon the overlay

Ctrl+Shift+V (configurable) opens ClipEye inside any app — it doesn't conflict with Win+V.

Search, click, paste

Find the clip, click it, done. Text from screenshots pastes as text.

Your clipboard is none of our business

A clipboard manager sees everything you copy. That's exactly why ClipEye was built to be incapable of phoning home.

ClipEye does NOT

  • Send clipboard data to any server
  • Run analytics or telemetry
  • Require an account or login
  • Access the internet

ClipEye DOES

  • Store everything locally on your PC
  • Let you export all your data (JSON)
  • Let you delete individually or in bulk
  • Respect your app-exclusion list

One price. Forever.

No subscription, no "pro tier", no ads. Buy it once on the Microsoft Store.

$4.99 once
Lifetime license · Microsoft account
  • All features included
  • Free updates
  • Install on all your PCs (same Microsoft account)
Buy on Microsoft Store

No Brasil: R$ 24,45 na Microsoft Store.

FAQ

How exactly does ClipEye save me LLM tokens?

When you paste an image into an AI chat, the whole image is processed as input — typically on the order of a thousand or more tokens for a screenshot, depending on the model and size. The text inside it is usually a small fraction of that. ClipEye OCRs the screenshot the moment you copy it, so you paste clean, trimmed text instead. The extraction itself runs locally and costs zero tokens.

Which languages does the OCR support?

English and Portuguese, via the native Windows OCR engine. ClipEye helps you install the language packs from Settings. The app interface is available in English and Portuguese and follows your Windows language automatically.

Does it replace Windows clipboard history (Win+V)?

It doesn't have to — they coexist. ClipEye's overlay opens with Ctrl+Shift+V (configurable) and adds OCR, real search, retention rules, and pinning on top of what Win+V offers.

What about sensitive things I copy, like passwords?

Add your password manager (or any app) to the exclusion list and ClipEye will ignore everything copied from it. You can also delete any clip individually or wipe the history entirely — it's all local, so deleting it really deletes it.

What do I need to run it?

Windows 10 21H2 or newer, or Windows 11, and about 60 MB of disk space. That's it — no GPU, no internet connection required.