Clipboard History for Windows

Paste your recent copies from Stream Deck keys

To get a clipboard history on a Stream Deck, add Clipboard History for Windows and drag History Slot onto a few keys side by side, each one showing a recent copy. Each key shows the first lines of a text or a thumbnail of an image, and one press pastes that item into the app in front of you.

Get it on the Elgato Marketplace

Stream Deck plugin · Works on Windows 10 or later with the Stream Deck app 6.9 or later.

What you can do

• Paste an earlier copy with one press: the key puts the item back on the clipboard and sends Ctrl+V to the app in front.
• See what you copied: keys for Copy 1, 2, 3 and so on, up to 20, show the first lines of a text or a thumbnail of an image.
• Paste again and again: pasting from a key keeps the order, so the same key pastes the same item again.
• Pin what you reuse: hold a key for 1 second to pin its item, or choose one in the key's settings. New copies leave it in place.
• Paste plain text: fonts, colors and links are dropped. Or put an item on the clipboard only, and paste it yourself.
• Keep private copies private: copies an app flags as private to Windows, as password managers can, are not stored. Text that looks like a password or an API key shows as dots.
• Stay in control: a Pause History key stops recording, and a Clear History key, held for 2 seconds, deletes the history.
• Choose how much to keep: up to 200 items, kept after a restart or in memory only. Pick from four key looks, in English or Japanese.
• Stored on your PC, encrypted with your Windows account. Nothing is uploaded.

How it works

1. Install the plugin from the Elgato Marketplace. In the Stream Deck app, drag History Slot onto a few keys side by side.
2. In each key's settings, set its Copy to 1, 2, 3 and so on. Copy something: key 1 shows it, and older copies move along.
3. Press a key to paste its item into the app you are working in. Optionally add a Pause History key and a Clear History key.

A press puts the item back on the clipboard, with its formatting when it had some, and sends Ctrl+V to the app in front.

Get Clipboard History for Windows on the Elgato Marketplace

Questions

Limits

• Text and images are kept. Files copied in Explorer stay out of the history, and so do screenshots a tool flags as private.
• In apps run as administrator, press Ctrl+V yourself after the key, because such apps do not accept keystrokes from other programs.
• Very large copies are left out: text over 2 million characters and images over 64 MB.
• When another app keeps the clipboard open, a press says BUSY. Press again a moment later.
• Windows only (Windows 10 or later). Not for Mac.