--- title: Relic features: everything a clipboard vault can do description: The full tour of Relic: automatic capture, search by meaning, on-device AI, cross-device end-to-end encrypted sync, secret masking, share links, quick-paste and keyboard power tools, a CLI, and a self-hostable open-source server. canonical: https://relic.space/features source: https://relic.space/llms.txt --- [Relic](https://relic.space/)OPEN SOURCE [Sign in](https://relic.space/signin)[Get Relic free](https://relic.space/#download) Features # Everything Relic can do. Relic looks simple: copy something, get it back later. Underneath is everything it takes to find, sync and protect what you copy. Here's the whole thing. [Get Relic free](https://relic.space/#download)[Read the help guide](https://relic.space/help) Every feature below has a “How it works” link into the guide, with the real screens and shortcuts. ![The Relic history popup on Windows, a search field above recently copied items](https://relic.space/shots/desktop-popup.png) [01Capture](#capture)[02Search](#search)[03On-device AI](#ai)[04Organize](#organize)[05Sync](#sync)[06Privacy](#privacy)[07Share](#share)[08Power-user](#power)[09Developers](#developers)[10Platforms](#platforms) 01 · Capture ## It saves everything, so you never have to. The moment you copy, it is already kept and only you can read it. Relic works quietly in the background and never changes what you are about to paste. Automatic capture Every copy is saved the instant you make it. No save button, no hotkey to remember. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/what-gets-captured) Keeps the file, not just the name Copy a file and Relic keeps the file itself, so it is still there after you move the original. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/attachments) Born saved when you mean it Uploads, share-sheet items and capture-hotkey grabs go straight to your vault. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/save-and-annotate) Capture on your phone Share to Relic, or wire an Android Quick Settings tile or an iPhone Action Button to grab the clipboard. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/capture-on-android) Capture only what you want Turn text, images or files on or off, and set a maximum size to skip. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/settings-capture) ![The Relic history popup on Windows, a search field above recently copied items](https://relic.space/shots/desktop-popup.png) The history popup on Windows. 02 · Search & recall ## Find it by word, by meaning, or by the day. Whatever you copied surfaces at once. Search runs over a local index on your own device, so it is instant and works offline. Instant local search Full-text search across your whole history, ranked and offline. No round trip to a server. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/search) Search by meaning Describe what you remember, even when those exact words are not in what you copied. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/search-by-meaning) Reads your screenshots OCR pulls the text out of images, so a screenshot is as findable as a note. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/read-text-in-images) Search the way you think Type “last week” or “June 20”, or use tag:, kind: and is:kept. A built-in cheatsheet lists it all. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/search-syntax) Learns what you reach for Items you pick often rise to the top, per search and per app. Learned only on your device. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/personalized-ranking) ![Searching for office chair in Relic returns a receipt screenshot](https://relic.space/shots/search-meaning.png) Type what you remember, get back the screenshot. 03 · On-device AI ## Intelligence that runs on your machine. Relic reads and sorts what you copy so you can recover it later just by describing it, and every bit of that runs locally. No cloud AI, ever. ### Smart tags Labels links, codes, addresses and dozens more categories as they arrive. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/on-device-ai) ### Text inside images OCR makes the words in a screenshot searchable. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/read-text-in-images) ### Describes your images A local caption model writes a sentence for each image, so you can search what a photo shows. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/describe-items) ### Meaning embeddings Powers search by concept, computed on your own machine. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/search-by-meaning) ### Never leaves your device No cloud AI. Nothing you copy is sent to a model we run. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/what-we-can-see) ### You stay in control Toggle any part of it, and remove downloaded models to reclaim space. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/settings-search-and-ai) 04 · Organize ## As tidy as you want. As messy as you are. Tag things, name them, keep the ones that matter. Or toss everything in and let search do the work. ### Keep what matters Promote anything to your vault and it is kept for good, never aged out. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/the-vault) ### Edit any item Add a title, your own tags, and a note. All indexed and synced. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/edit-an-item) ### Bulk actions Multi-select to tag or delete a whole batch at once. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/multi-select) ### Open and save out Double-click to view an item, and save images or files back to disk. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/attachments) 05 · Sync & devices ## A vault of everything, on every device. Whatever you set up stays in sync, so a copy on one device shows up on the rest before you go looking for it. Or run the sync server yourself. Every device, in sync A copy on one device is waiting on the rest within seconds, end-to-end encrypted. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/how-sync-works) Add a device by QR Scan a code to link another device. No account juggling. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/add-a-device) Manage your devices See what is connected, rename it, or sign it out remotely. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/your-devices) Works offline Capture and search with no connection; sync catches up when you are back. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/not-syncing) Account-switch guard Items from a different account are held back, never silently merged in. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/switch-account) ![The same Relic vault open on a desktop and a phone, in sync](https://relic.space/shots/sync-pair.png) The same vault, in sync on every device. 06 · Privacy & security ## Private because we cannot read it. Every relic is encrypted end-to-end with a key that never leaves your device. Relic stores only the encrypted form, so your history stays unreadable to everyone else. End-to-end encrypted XChaCha20-Poly1305 with a key only you hold. We store ciphertext we cannot read. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/how-encryption-works) Secrets stay masked API keys, cards and tokens are detected and hidden until you choose to reveal them. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/secrets) Wipes copied secrets After you copy a secret, Relic clears it from the clipboard 30 seconds later. Skip the apps you choose Block your password manager or any app so it never lands in your history. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/never-capture-from) Sealed backups A weekly encrypted backup you can point at any cloud drive. Exports can redact secrets. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/automatic-backups) ![A detected key in the real Relic app, masked in the list and revealed only on purpose](https://relic.space/shots/masked-secret.png) Detected secrets stay masked until you reveal them. [relic\_crypto · verify the encryption](https://github.com/RelicSync/relic/tree/main/crypto)[How the encryption works →](https://relic.space/technology) 07 · Share ## Hand something over without handing it to us. Share links are sealed on your device. The key rides along in the link and never touches our server. ### End-to-end share links Encrypt on your device; the key lives in the link and never reaches our server. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/share-links) ### Expiring, one-time links Set an hour, a day or a week, or a link that dies after a single view. ### Offline QR share Hand short text to a nearby device as a QR code. Nothing leaves your machine. ### Free Private Note Send a one-time encrypted secret with no app at all. [Open Private Note →](https://relic.space/tools/private-note) 08 · Keyboard & power-user ## The small things that add up. The touches you only notice once you have them: fewer keystrokes, less mouse, and your history one shortcut away. ### Summon it anywhere A global hotkey opens your searchable history over whatever app you are in. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/the-popup) ### Quick-paste 1 to 5 Paste the Nth most recent item straight in, even one you copied on another device. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/quick-paste) ### Mini picker at your cursor A compact picker that opens right where you are typing. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/mini-picker) ### Drag it out Drag any row into another app, or drop files in to save them to your vault. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/drag-out) ### Combine and paste Select several items and paste them as one block, with a separator you pick. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/multi-select) ### Set a reminder Put a nudge on any item and it comes back to your clipboard later. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/reminders) ### Paste as plain text Drop formatting so pasted text matches wherever it lands. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/formatting) ### Pause on demand Suspend capture for a while with a single click. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/pause-capture) 09 · For developers ## Scriptable, self-hostable, and open where it counts. A clipboard your terminal can read, a server you can run yourself, and the encryption published for anyone to check. ### The relic CLI Read and search your vault from the terminal, add items, and pipe results into anything. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/cli) ### Self-host the server One Docker command runs the whole sync server on hardware you control. [Self-host guide →](https://relic.space/self-host) ### Open encryption Read and run the pure-Dart library that seals your data. [relic\_crypto](https://github.com/RelicSync/relic/tree/main/crypto)[How it works →](https://relic.space/help/how-encryption-works) ### \~90 free tools Formatters, converters, a JWT decoder and more, no sign-in. [Browse the tools →](https://relic.space/tools) 10 · Platforms ## Where Relic runs. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone are all live today, with the web vault in any browser. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone The full app on desktop and phone, in sync everywhere. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/install) The web vault Open, search and add to your vault from any browser at relic.space/vault. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/web-vault) The command line The relic CLI reads your local vault for scripts and agents. [How it works →](https://relic.space/help/cli) [Get Relic free ](https://relic.space/#download) ![The Relic web vault open in a browser tab](https://relic.space/shots/web-vault.png) ![The Relic Android app with a search underway](https://relic.space/shots/android-search.png) ## Stop losing what you copy. Works on all your devices · Only you can read it · Free to start [Get Relic free](https://relic.space/#download)[Read the technology](https://relic.space/technology) Windows, Mac, Linux, Android & iPhone · locked end-to-end