Sukarth Clip vs Edge Drop: Two Electron Clipboard Apps

Clip by Sukarth is a small, MIT-licensed clipboard manager for Windows that opens a themed popup with Ctrl+Shift+V, fuzzy-searches your text and images, and backs up its database on a schedule. Edge Drop is an Apache 2.0 clipboard shelf that opens at the screen edge and lets you drag images and files into other apps. Both are built on Electron and React. Pick Clip for keyboard search of recent text; pick Edge Drop for moving files and images.

Clip's details below come from its GitHub README and v1.1.0 release, checked in October 2026. Edge Drop is made by the team behind this site.

What Clip does

• History: text and images, 100 items by default (configurable), stored in a local SQLite database.
• Search and pins: fuzzy search across all content, plus pinned items.
• Hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+V by default, fully customizable. Escape hides the window, and Clip tries to return focus to the previous window after you paste.
• Appearance: dark and light themes, adjustable transparency (95% by default), accent colour and border radius.
• Backups: automatic database backups on an interval from 5 minutes to 1 day, plus import and export.
• Startup and tray: optional start with Windows; minimize to the tray or hide completely.
• Install: an installer or a portable build from GitHub Releases. Windows 10 or later, x64, no admin rights needed.

The README lists system requirements of 100 MB of RAM minimum and 200 MB recommended, plus 50 MB of storage and room for history.

Known issues and roadmap

The project lists three known issues itself: its AutoHotkey component may need a Windows Defender exclusion, images over 50 MB can briefly lag the interface, and focus restoration doesn't work with every app.

Cloud sync, tags, templates and snippets, multi-monitor improvements, and Linux and macOS versions are listed as planned, not shipped. Clip is a young project with a handful of GitHub stars, so judge it on what the current release does.

How Edge Drop differs

Edge Drop slides out from the left, right or top edge of one monitor when the cursor reaches it, or opens with Alt+C. It records text, links, colours, images and files copied in Explorer, and keeps 250 unpinned items by default (100 to 1,000 selectable).

Clicking a card pastes it into the app you were using without stealing focus. Images and files can also be dragged out into any app that accepts dropped files, and up to 10 can be grouped into a stack and dragged together. Text and link cards are click-to-paste only.

For privacy, Edge Drop has an Incognito mode that pauses capture, an Auto-delete timer, a Clear unpinned on restart option, and skips copies marked with the standard Windows exclude flags or known password-manager formats. Its history index is encrypted with Windows DPAPI. There's no sync; like Clip, its README lists opt-in cloud sync only as an unfinished roadmap item.

Clip vs Edge Drop at a glance

Neither publishes a measured idle memory figure for its own app, and both run on Electron, so neither belongs on a list of lightweight clipboard managers. If memory is your main concern, Ditto or Win+V is a better start; how much RAM a clipboard manager should use explains how to measure it.

When to choose Clip

• You work from the keyboard and want a popup you can type into, search and paste from.
• You care about looks: light theme, transparency and accent colours.
• You want scheduled backups and database export before reinstalling Windows.
• You can add a Defender exclusion if the AutoHotkey component needs one.

Remap Ctrl+Shift+V if you use it to paste without formatting in your browser. If you'd rather pay a few dollars for a polished Microsoft Store app with the same keyboard-first idea, Clip Stack vs Edge Drop covers ZXM Studio's option.

When to choose Edge Drop

• You copy files in Explorer and want them on hand later; Windows' own history doesn't keep copied files.
• You move screenshots and images into chat, email or design apps by dragging.
• You want privacy controls built in: pausing capture, timed deletion and skipping password-manager copies.
• You need a Microsoft Store install for a PC that blocks downloaded installers.

Whichever you choose, run one clipboard history at a time. Two managers record every copy twice and can interfere with each other.

FAQ

Is Sukarth Clip open source?

Yes, under the MIT license, with source on GitHub.

Does Clip sync between computers?

Not in v1.1.0. Cloud sync is listed on the roadmap as planned.

Can Clip store copied files?

Its README describes text and image support only. It doesn't mention files.

Related reading

• Best Open-Source Clipboard Managers in 2026
• Edge Drop vs Ditto: Visual Shelf or Searchable History?
• Best Clipboard Managers for Windows in 2026: 8 Compared
• How to Trial a Clipboard Manager for Seven Days

Sources

• Sukarth/Clip (GitHub) — features, stack, 100-item default, hotkey, system requirements, known issues, roadmap, MIT license.
• Clip latest release (GitHub) — v1.1.0.

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