Intro:
Save your time by using a smart extension of Windows Clipboard. Clipà.Vu gives you everything you expect from a classic clipboard manager but it does not stop here… You also get the option to sync and share your clips across all your PCs (available in this giveaway) and mobile devices (available 2018) in a private, secure, and encrypted manner.
Main features:
- Optional cloud sync across all your PCs (available in this giveaway)
- Optional sync with your Android or iOS devices (available 2018)
- Up to 10.000 history clips, 1.000 favorites, 1.000 images
- Advanced search & filtering
- Fast switching between rich and plain text
- Data encryption
- Smart hotkeys
- And many more…
Reliable:
Clipà.Vu silently collects all your Ctrl+C clippings and presents them, when needed, in a form that will enable their quick re-use. The clips can be reused by all applications on your local computer including browsers, email clients, graphics editors, etc. – and, if connected, by all applications on your other computers / mobile devices.
Secure:
All your saved clips are encrypted – only your Clipà.Vu can read them. We do not own or provide any server infrastructure. If you decide to use the cloud sync functionality, your data will be stored on a common cloud service of your choice (e.g. Dropbox). You remain the only owner of your data; we never get access to it, and the cloud provider has no chance to decrypt any content.
Innovative:
With over 10 years of experience, we provide a solid understanding of what works and what does not. We introduced a smart way of hot-keys usage, unique sync algorithm, clips pinning, etc. You are welcome to share your ideas with us, they might become part of a future version.
Clipà.Vu serves you:
Not the other way around. Save time and use it for more creative or entertaining activities.
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Reviews for Clipà.Vu for Windows Desktop
The app delivers what promised – more than sufficient for a daily usage. There are some minor imperfections and some of the features are a bit “hidden”. I would recommend creating some kind of interactive tutorial…
Almost all PC users, use the Copy and Paste option multiple time on daily basis. Windows Clipboard does a good job, but it has a limitation too. As soon as you copy something new to the clipboard, the stuff copied before cannot be used again.
Clipà.Vu is a versatile software application, designed to extend the functionality of the Windows clipboard. This tool allows you to keep a history of all the items you have copied and reuse them again, anytime you need to.
Overview
The installer size is only ~7MB and the installation process is pretty simple and straightforward. It didn’t take much time on Windows 10 to install, however installation on the older versions of Windows make take about 5-10 minutes as the required Windows components have to be installed in them first. After launching, the application shows you shortcut to easily access the application UI, and starts keeping a history of your clipboard right away.
Features
Clean & Easy-to-use UI
The UI has a modern look and is easy to understand. All the features and options are well-arranged to be easily accessible, and make it easier to use for novice users. It does contain a bit complex features and options for the advanced users too. The UI has a search bar on top along with some filters on the side, under it is the history i.e the list of the items you’ve copied. On the bottom, you can see the shortcuts to do different thing using this application.
Filters, Favorites, & Time Stamps
The ‘History’ tab on the main window displays all recently copied items, you can search the one you’re looking for by typing in text, or you can filter them by categories like, Text, Email address, URLs, Recent, Guids, Time Stamps, and Images. You can filter these history items by time too like an hour older, a week, or a month or year older entries can be filtered easily.
From the ‘History’ tab you can easily add your favorite or most used items to the ‘Favorites’ tab. Favorites tab supports up to 1000 favorites that can be text, urls, email address, or images.
‘Time Stamps’ tab contains the option to copy current date and time to the clipboard and also give you a time based folder name, in case you’re creating a new folder or renaming it.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The tool comes with a lot of handy keyboard shortcuts that can help speed up your normal copy and paste work. All the shortcuts are well-thought of and really improve ones speed when they become used to them. My favorite one is clicking the Ctrl key three times bring up the application UI.
Cloud Synchronization
Cloud Sync feature makes life with Clipà.Vu Clipboard Manager a bit more easier. Once enabled, you can have all your clips synced across all your PCs or mobile devices. This is of great advantage when you install this application on a new device, your data will be pre-loaded automatically and easily.
Blacklist Section
This application provides you with the option to add data-sensitive apps to a Blacklist section, this ensures that no data is copied to Clipà.Vu from apps such password managers, for example. Moreover, all the data saved is encrypted ensuring privacy.
Conclusion
Clipà.Vu is a lightweight and reliable application that helps extend the functionality of Windows Clipboard. Is is aimed to help you save you time and effort when working on the computer, and allows you to save 10.000 clips of text, images or other useful data. It is definitely recommended for people who perform office-related tasks frequently.
The software itself is fine. The user interface is sometimes a bit slow and more fancy than it needs to be for this kind of software, but it works flawless and does its job quite well.
However, there are two issues: this tool begs for “likes” on social media. And it does this quite often (even the full paid version does this). And the second issue: don’t count on the mentioned “One year free updates” on giveaway versions. The last giveaway version lost it’s free license not even 6 weeks after the giveaway because of an rather small minor update. I get its price tag is quite low and the developers deserves to make some money, but if you mention free updates, than offer free updates.
Verdict: 3 stars for a working, feature rich software with minor flaws. For 4 or 5 stars, remove that annoying “like us on FB” stuff and follow your own “terms and conditions” for giveaways.
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Hi Michael, thank you for an attempt of a fair review. There are however a few mistakes. 1) One year free updates really is one year of free updates. Try to update the version go you got for free 6 months ago and it will work. 2) We do not beg, we politely ask for a favor. We have no budget for ANY marketing, all money the app earns goes back to its development. Most of the instances we give away for free. The ‘likes’ is just an attempt to get a bit broader user base, I agree it might not be the happiest one. 3) The biggest misinterpretation: The message box CLEARLY STAYS that in case you do not want to like or recommend, you can simply write to support@clipa.vu – we reply within a day to EVERYBODY and re-activate the unlimited functionality remotely. And lastly, if you do not react at all it will reactivate automatically after couple of days. We however listen what you said and will very probably remove this temporary limitation completely.
I actually DID it with the version offered at some point last December. After some minor update in January, the giveaway version went to Free-Mode – which is hardly a year. I didn’t try the giveaway in march, though – you may have corrected that with that version, but… like they say “you never get a second chance to make a first impression”.
As for the “Likes”. Yes, you ask for it… bit if it’s more than once – and it was definitely more than once back then even in my short few weeks testing – it’s nagging and there is not much “polity” on it. I get where you come from with this, I get it’s free marketing and I get it’s important. However, you already offer a free mode. There is no issue with asking politely for a like in this version. But in the “pro”-editions, the same you actually sell for a few bucks, should you really annoy your paying customers with that?
And last but not least… I honestly don’t remember what the message box said back then, but I’m fairly sure it never mentioned the automatic reactivation of any features. Anyway, I really hope these “temporary limitations” will be really gone one day. This is, again, something I understand up to a point, but here the marketing went a bit too far, I guess.
Like I said yesterday, I liked the software itself, I really did. Besides a shorter launch time and a bit more responsive GUI would be nice, the software has a great feature set, works flawless and does everything I expect from a clipboard manager and even a bit more. It could easily replace Ditto, the tool I’m used to since many years. But that deactivation back then left a bad taste in my mouth. I probably had even bought the tool anyway, because, well, it’s quite good… but the whole social network “asking for a favor” aspect led me just reinstall Ditto. As I don’t want to switch such tools back and forth and after I’m still not sure if this version stays activated for the announced time, I just decided to pass this giveaway yesterday and wrote down my reasoning here, however, I might just try it again in the future (especially if the android app is ready then). There weren’t any mistakes in my review… only things that actually happened for whatever reason (switching back to free mode) and things you hadn’t explained back then (automatic reactivation of features after a few days if you don’t want recommend or send you an email).
Small addition: Of course I tried to reactivate my version after it went to free mode following that update back then with the key I got for installation in December. Which, of course, didn’t work – otherwise this wouldn’t have been a problem for me at all. So I guess the software didn’t just “forgot” his activation information but instead the giveaway keys were locked out on purpose. At least that’s what I thought until the developer responded (thanks for that) and that was probably the reason I wrote that review. Now I’m just confused about what really happened back then… :)
I got tired of the makers of this software constantly requiring me to endorse them on social media (which never worked cleanly because I have multiple machines) and uninstalled it. I never found it very useful anyway plus it always left annoying GUI’s on my screen which had to be closed every time I rebooted.
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Hi Marrcus, we have listened and removed this. It will appear only once and will not stay in your way repeatedly.
All you need is to install the latest version in this case. Get the download either here on SOS site or directly from http://clipa.vu/downloads/windows-desktop/.
For a long time, the Clipboard feature on devices has received no significant improvement. That is particularly to the fact that you can only have one item in the Clipboard at a time. If you have ever wanted or wished to keep more items in the Clipboard, the Clipà.Vu for Windows Desktop will quickly become your companion. Having been in need for such a solution, I had to try out the software and here is what I found.
At a Glance
It is an easy experience when downloading and installing this piece of software. On launching it, the database will load as the main window presents you with the different options like your clipboard history. You can also opt to connect to a cloud service of your choice using the cloud icon at the top right of the interface.
Pros
Favorites Option
I am always in need of copying and pasting certain information while surfing the web. In most cases, the experience is a little bit bothersome. Thanks to Clipà.Vu for Windows Desktop’s Favorites tab, I was able to fill in such details for quick access and use. Some of the information I include on this tab were contact details.
Helpful Clipboard History
Unlike the native Clipboard feature, Clipà.Vu introduces a feature that most users have missed all along. The History feature was able to keep my copied content for over 50 items. That notwithstanding, I could go on since this application can support up to hundreds of items. Since accessing the History option was easy, I was able to avoid a lot of back and forth switching of web pages.
Search Through Clips
After saving hundreds of Clipboard items using Clipà.Vu, accessing older items may become challenging. To solve that challenge, you can access the Search feature that can help you find what you are looking for within a short time.
Collection of Handy Keyboard Shortcuts
In addition to Clipà.Vu for Windows Desktop saving you from switching between apps and web pages, the keyboard shortcuts that it presents can help you save time further. Right from the main window, you will see the list of shortcuts as you practice using them.
Con
Poses a Privacy and Security Concern
Clipà.Vu for Windows Desktop can save what you copy in the Clipboard for an extended period. During that time, another user cloud easily have access to your clips. This was a major concern especially if you usually copy passwords instead of typing them. It would have been better for this application to have some form of authentication before using instead of just the delete option that most users could forget to use.
Verdict
With a few into using Clipà.Vu for Windows Desktop, you will easily get accustomed to how it works and revamps your Clipboard experience. Provided it is running, this application will store all your clips and make it easy for you to access. An authentication option in the next version will do more good than harm to this application.
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Hi Dennis,
Thank you for a fair review. Please let me comment on your sentence “Poses a Privacy and Security Concern” chapter. First of all please read and understand Clipà.Vu Cloud security model here: http://clipa.vu/cloud-sync. Also notice that EVERY SINGLE entry is encrypted for its storage – even locally, even when Sync never got enabled. Secondly please try to use “Application Blacklisting” feature. I personally blacklist my password manager application and that clearly dictates to Clipà.Vu that NONE of the info coming from this sensitive application should be ever stored. It is true that this feature could be extended to online password managers like LastPass and similar. If there will be enough users requesting this via support@clipa.vu we will implement such feature. Lastly there is an auth happening – it happens first time you enabled Dropbox Cloud syncing. Thanks again and to everybody: We are extremely responsive at support@clipa.vu, just ask there :-)
Best regards,
Jan
Clipa Vu for windows desktop
I always have an issue with the ‘forgetful’ Windows OS clipboard. Even though the approach is quite impressive at keeping your RAM and resources less occupied, there’s still a time when you want to retrieve a couple of copies and histories from clipboard. Clipa Vu promises to handle the shortcoming and gives you an intelligent way to manage your clipboard.
Pros
Clever way to keep track of clips
It’s one thing to keep track of multiple clips, it is another to make head or tail of the mess they could easily create. Clipa Vu cancels out this possibility by giving a rather impressive approach to the solution. Every clip you make will give you details of the locations the clip came from hence giving you a great way to understand your clips
An Impressive Search Feature
If you remember what was on the clip and don’t really have anything else on it, you can always count on the search tool to return your results within no time. I filled up my Clipa Vu with a lot of junk and trying searching for random words. The delivery times and accuracy is simply impressive.
Rich and Plain Text
Don’t worry about losing your text formatting whenever you copy paste. Quick switching between plain text and formatted text will help you access all your data just the way you need it making this the perfect tool for office work and other productivity bouts.
Couple this with the fact that you can do data encryption to keep all your clips and important data safe means that you will always have your data on your finger tips without risking on safety security or performance.
Cons
Still Stutters With Big Files
While Clipa Vu does a great job with text and images, I found that it lags when you give it big images or videos. Hoarding such files on the recent clipboard memory will put some strain on your resources meaning that you have to actively keep inventory and get rid of any huge clips that you don’t really need.
Verdict
Clipa Vu is an amazing productivity tool, something that will save you time while in the office. It works perfect if all you are doing is copy paste text, reasonable images and file sizes. The on-off toggle will have you covered when handling bigger files to help keep your resource use in check. This is the perfect way to working around the rather limited Windows clipboard.
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