Keep it by your side.
Screenshots, text, images and links stay within reach while you work — in a shelf that lives beside the page, not buried in a folder you'll never open again.
Capture. Shelf. Reuse.
That's the entire loop. There is no inbox to process, no tags to apply, and nothing to organise before it becomes useful.
Copy or capture
Copy anything on a page you've allowed, or press ⌥⇧S and drag a box around any region of any site.
It's on the shelf
Chronological, searchable, with its source and age attached. Nothing to name, file, or confirm.
Put it back to work
Click to copy, or drag it into whatever you're building. Old clips expire on their own.
Stop losing the thing you had a minute ago.
You copied an order ID, then three tabs happened. The old answer is to retrace your steps. Kipside's answer is that it never left.
Press /, type a word you half-remember, and it's there. Search runs against text, code, links, page titles, hostnames and colour values — locally, in under 50 milliseconds on a thousand clips.
Screenshots without the file management.
Press ⌥⇧S, drag a box, done. The capture goes straight to the shelf — not to your Desktop, not to Downloads, not through a Save dialog asking you to name something you'll use once.
No editor opens. No annotation suite. If you wanted to draw an arrow on it, you'd have said so.
Full-page capture stitches the whole scroll. Pick Text pulls a clean paragraph off a page without fighting its selection handles.
Made to move.
Getting things back out matters more than storing them. Kipside gives you two routes, and is honest about which one works where.
Click to copy — everywhere
Click any clip and it's on your clipboard. Paste it wherever you paste things. This works in every app, with no exceptions and no setup.
Drag — where supported
Drag images, links and formatted text straight into editors that accept them. Kipside offers every format a destination might ask for and lets it take the one it understands.
Formats that survive
Copied formatting is preserved through a strict sanitiser, so a bulleted list pasted into another editor is still a bulleted list — and never carries anything executable.
We won't tell you drag works everywhere. It doesn't — not in any browser extension, and not in any product claiming otherwise. Web editors implement drop differently and always will. Click-to-copy is always there, always one click, and never the slow path.
Local by default. Not as a setting.
Your shelf stays on your device. There's no account to create and no server to trust, because there isn't one.
No site access on install
Kipside asks for nothing at installation. Screenshots and Pick Text use a temporary permission granted only when you press a shortcut, and expiring immediately after.
Excluded before you ask
Several password managers are on the never-capture list before you open the settings. Add your bank, your admin panel, anything.
Pause means paused
Not recorded-then-discarded. While paused the clipboard isn't read at all — which matters, because reading it is itself an observable act.
No claims we can't keep
Kipside doesn't pretend to detect secrets automatically, because no tool does that reliably. You get exclusions, pause, short retention and one-click deletion instead.
Read the full privacy policy — it's short, and it's checkable against the source.
Your Mac and PC can join the shelf.
The extension covers the browser. Bridge extends the same shelf to everything else: your system clipboard, and the screenshots you take with ⇧⌘4 or Snipping Tool.
You stop wondering where the screenshot file went, because you never have to find it. It's on the shelf, beside everything else.
Bridge stays local too. It talks to the extension on your own machine, over a channel the browser brokers, and makes no network connections.
Free, like everything else here.
Take a screenshot as usual
⇧⌘4 on a Mac, Win+Shift+S on Windows. Nothing new to learn.
It appears in Kipside
Beside the browser, already searchable, with the file still exactly where your OS put it.
Drag it where it's needed
Or click to copy. Same shelf, same two routes back out.
All of it is free.
Every feature, on every platform. No tiers, no trial, no upgrade prompt waiting three screens in.
No account
Nothing to sign up for, because there's nothing on a server to sign into. Install it and it works.
No paid tier
Boards, local OCR, full-page capture, advanced filters and the desktop Bridge are all included. There is no Pro version to sell you.
No ads, ever
Kipside can see your clipboard. Monetising that in any form would be a betrayal of the only thing this product asks you to trust it with.
Export is yours
Take everything with you in one file, at any time. Your clips are yours; nothing is held hostage.
Why free? A clipboard tool asks for unusual trust. Charging for it would mean building billing, accounts and a support burden around a utility that runs entirely on your own machine and sends nothing anywhere — and every one of those would make it a worse, and less private, product.
One click, then one shortcut.
Kipside asks for no site access when you install it. Nothing to configure before it's useful.
Add it
From the Chrome Web Store. Kipside requests no access to any website at install.
Open the shelf
Click the Kipside icon, or press ⌥⇧K. The panel opens beside the page.
Capture something
Press ⌥⇧S and drag a box. That shortcut works on any page, with no permission at all.
Chrome 116 or newer. Works on macOS, Windows, Linux and ChromeOS.
The questions worth asking.
Is my clipboard uploaded anywhere?
No. There is no Kipside server. Clips are stored in your browser's local database and never transmitted. There's no account, no telemetry carrying clip content, and no analytics SDK in the extension at all.
Does Kipside work outside Chrome?
The free extension is Chrome-only, and captures only what happens in the browser. It is not a system-wide clipboard manager and won't be described as one.
Kipside Bridge is the optional desktop companion that adds your system clipboard and OS screenshots on macOS and Windows.
Can I pause clipboard capture?
Yes — from the panel header, for fifteen minutes, an hour, until tomorrow, or indefinitely, or with ⌥⇧P. While paused nothing is recorded at all.
You can also list sites that are never captured. Several password managers are on that list before you touch it.
Does drag and drop work everywhere?
No, and any extension claiming otherwise hasn't tested it. Web editors implement drop differently and always will.
Kipside offers every format a destination might ask for and keeps a tested compatibility matrix rather than a promise. Click-to-copy works everywhere and is always one click.
How long are clips kept?
Seven days by default. You can choose 24 hours, 30 days, or keep them until you delete them.
Pinned clips never expire, whatever the setting. A storage limit removes the oldest unpinned clips when the shelf grows past it, so it can't quietly fill your disk.
Does it work in incognito?
Not unless you explicitly enable it in Chrome's extensions page. Off is the default, and that's the right default for a clipboard tool.
What permissions does it need, and why?
Clipboard read and write, to save what you copy and put it back. Side panel and storage, to be the panel and keep your shelf. Scripting and activeTab, so screenshots and Pick Text work on the page you invoked them on — and only then.
Kipside requests no site access at installation. You grant individual sites if and when you want automatic capture there. Every permission is justified line by line in the privacy policy.
Is it really free? What's the catch?
Really free, all of it — including the desktop Bridge. There's no paid tier, no trial, and no feature held back.
There's also no catch of the usual kind: no ads, no analytics, no data collection, nothing sold. Kipside can see your clipboard, and monetising that in any form would betray the one thing it asks you to trust it with. It runs entirely on your machine and there is no server to run, so there is very little to pay for.
Is there AI in it?
No assistant, no chat box, no “smart” organising. The optional OCR that makes text inside screenshots searchable runs entirely on your device with a bundled engine, and it's off by default.
Kipside is a utility. It solves the problem directly.
Keep it by your side.
Screenshots, text, images and links stay within reach while you work.