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@lokeshgovindu lokeshgovindu released this 12 Aug 13:29
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2026.1-pre1
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The first public build of PasteJump. Marked a pre-release deliberately: it has been used daily on one machine and tested by one person, so please treat it as something to try rather than something to rely on.

Hold Ctrl, tap V to walk back through what you have copied, release to paste. No window, no mouse. The website shows it in a minute; the manual is the long version.

Which download

File What is in it Needs
PasteJump-2026.1.0.134-win-x64.zip One PasteJump.exe. Portable — its data folder appears beside it, so a USB stick carries your history with it. Nothing
PasteJump-2026.1.0.134-win-x64-unpacked.zip The same build with the runtime already unpacked, 254 files. Starts about four times faster (~0.3 s against ~1.3 s warm). Nothing
PasteJump-2026.1.0.134-win-x64-net10.zip PasteJump's own files only, 15 of them, 2.8 MB. .NET 10 Desktop Runtime

Take the first unless you have a reason not to. Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. Nothing is installed and nothing is written outside the folder you unzip into, unless you move the data location yourself.

Windows will warn you

This build is not signed with a paid certificate, so SmartScreen will report an unknown publisher on first run — choose More info, then Run anyway. The SHA256 of each file is below if you want to check that what you downloaded is what was published:

b5c5ed50bb1f82a890f88abcdc382ab4064986f8019dc3ac1c97644841d55980  PasteJump-2026.1.0.134-win-x64.zip
d2d538a4eed1563db4f86d0e11d1944e75da364430f72b42d0936d5808cca3f7  PasteJump-2026.1.0.134-win-x64-unpacked.zip
b65fe9e4ea8eee3dfd4ef2d83edecba635edb2972b7521ba13238b9d7a562bdd  PasteJump-2026.1.0.134-win-x64-net10.zip

What it does

  • The gesture. V and C step, A/Home returns to the newest clip, 1–9 jump, Esc cancels and restores the previous clipboard. Every letter can be moved or switched off; the arrows, Home, End, Delete, Esc and F1 never move, so no set of bindings can leave you stuck. F1 shows the list.
  • Two stores. A stack of clips the gesture pastes from, keeping every clipboard format — an Excel range comes back as an Excel range — and a full-text searchable history archive alongside it.
  • Join several clips into one paste. J marks clips during the gesture; releasing Ctrl pastes them as one, joined by a separator you choose. Or select rows in the history window and press Copy.
  • Paste formats. Z cycles Original, Plain text, Collapse whitespace, Sentence case, Unindent.
  • Nineteen themes, applied as you step through the list — Solarized, Catppuccin, Nord, Dracula, Tokyo Night, Monokai, Gruvbox, Kanagawa and more — and a theme is a small JSON file you can write yourself.
  • Import from Clipjump. Both its history archive and its clip stack, without modifying anything in its folder.
  • Excluded applications. Password managers are excluded by default; while one is in the foreground, nothing is recorded.

Known limitations

  • Two settings are greyed out: the trigger letter and the keystroke sent to paste. Both need more work before they earn a control, and neither is required for normal use.
  • Running alongside another clipboard manager that also claims Ctrl+V does not work — one of the two has to be closed. PasteJump warns at start-up when it recognises one.
  • Not tested on a mixed-DPI desktop. Overlay placement across monitors at different scales is unverified.
  • Windows on ARM is not built. 64-bit x86 only.

Privacy

Everything stays in a SQLite database in your own folder. No telemetry, no account, and no network call except an optional check for a newer release on GitHub. It is a clipboard manager, so it sees what you copy — the source is here to read, and the exclusion list is there for the things you would rather it did not.

MIT licensed. Reports and suggestions are welcome in Issues.

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