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Windows beta

Find that thing you copied.

Search your clipboard history and paste it back in seconds. Squirrel keeps text, links, code, and images close at hand, even after you restart your PC.

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For Windows 10 and 11 · Early beta

Win+Alt+Vopens Squirrel from any app

How it works

Three steps, no mouse needed.

  1. 1

    Copy as usual.

    Squirrel saves text, links, code, and copied images on your PC as you work.

  2. 2

    Find it with a few keystrokes.

    Type part of what you copied, or the name of the app you copied it from.

  3. 3

    Paste and keep moving.

    It lands in the app you were using. Shift+Enter pastes it as plain text.

Your history is still there after you restart Squirrel or Windows. Pin the items you reuse, trim or change the case of text before pasting, and choose how long history is kept (30 days by default), whether images are saved, which apps are skipped, and when to pause capture.

Also in the beta

Fix it on the way in. Snip it on the way past.

Paste as plain text, trimmed, or in a different case.

Press Tab on an item to open the Paste as menu, then a single key. Upper, lower or title case, without line breaks, or trimmed. Only what you paste changes. The saved item stays as it was.

Snip part of the screen.

Drag a rectangle around what you want. The snip goes on the clipboard, ready for Ctrl+V, and into Squirrel, so you can find it later by searching “image” or the app’s name.

Snip a whole long page.

Pick an area and scroll through it at an easy pace. Squirrel stitches what goes past into one tall image. Click Done and it’s on the clipboard and in your history.

The beta

Looking for people who copy and paste all day.

If you move text, links, code, or screenshots between apps throughout your workday, you’re who we’d like to hear from. Use Squirrel for real work and tell us how it holds up.

This is an early build. Some rough edges remain, and things will change based on what testers find.

  • a
    Everyday usefulnessDoes it earn a place in how you work? When do you reach for it, and when don’t you?
  • b
    Confusing momentsKeys that didn’t do what you expected, labels that weren’t clear, settings you couldn’t find.
  • c
    BugsPastes that went to the wrong place, items that didn’t show up, anything that broke.

Before you install

What to expect from the beta build.

Windows 10 and 11
Works on Windows 11 and on Windows 10 (version 2004 or later). On Windows 10 it looks a little plainer: square corners and the standard Windows fonts.
One setup file, no admin prompt
Squirrel installs for your Windows account only and runs from the system tray. It takes about 80 MB and needs nothing else installed.
Updates ask first
Once a day Squirrel checks whether there’s a newer build. Nothing installs until you click Install. You can also check by hand in Settings › About.
Easy to remove
Uninstall from Windows Settings › Apps. You choose whether to keep your clipboard history for a later reinstall or delete it.

We’ll email you about beta access and getting started.

Privacy

Your clipboard and your signup are kept apart.

In the app

  • Your clipboard history is saved on your PC, in a local database at %LOCALAPPDATA%\CacheSquirrel, so it’s still there after you restart Squirrel or Windows. It isn’t sent to us.
  • Old items are cleaned up automatically: by default Squirrel keeps 30 days, at most 1,000 items and 256 MB of images. Pinned items are kept. You can change all three in Settings.
  • In this beta the history is stored unencrypted. Anyone who can sign in to your Windows account can read it.
  • Copies from 1Password, Bitwarden, KeePass, and KeePassXC are skipped, as are copies an app marks as private. Other apps, including some browser password managers, may not mark them, so pause capture before copying anything sensitive.
  • You can exclude apps, pause capture, set how long items are kept, and clear history at any time.
  • The only time Squirrel goes online is its daily update check. That check sends just the versions of Squirrel and Windows you’re running. You can turn it off in Settings › General.

On this website

  • The signup form collects your email address and, if you fill it in, what you’d use Squirrel for.
  • We use them only to contact you about beta access and getting started, and to understand how testers plan to use the app.
  • Signing up doesn’t subscribe you to a newsletter.
  • Nothing you enter here is connected to the app or your clipboard history.