diff --git a/po/POTFILES b/po/POTFILES
index 5b1199c..ff1c16f 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES
+++ b/po/POTFILES
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 src/Application.vala
 src/Window.vala
-src/Utils.vala
\ No newline at end of file
+src/Utils.vala
+src/CutCopyPasteButtons.vala
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/CutCopyPasteButtons.vala b/src/CutCopyPasteButtons.vala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09dbd22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/CutCopyPasteButtons.vala
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 William Kelso <wpkelso@posteo.net>
+ */
+
+public class CutCopyPasteButtons : Gtk.Box {
+
+    public Gtk.TextView textview {get; construct;}
+
+    public CutCopyPasteButtons (Gtk.TextView textview) {
+        Object (textview: textview);
+    }
+
+    construct {
+        orientation = Gtk.Orientation.HORIZONTAL;
+        spacing = 0;
+
+        var cut = new Gtk.Button.from_icon_name ("edit-cut") {
+            tooltip_markup = Granite.markup_accel_tooltip (
+                {"<Ctrl>X"},
+                _("Cut selected text")
+            )
+        };
+
+        var copy = new Gtk.Button.from_icon_name ("edit-copy") {
+            tooltip_markup = Granite.markup_accel_tooltip (
+                {"<Ctrl>C"},
+                _("Copy selected text")
+            )
+        };
+
+        var paste = new Gtk.Button.from_icon_name ("edit-paste") {
+            tooltip_markup = Granite.markup_accel_tooltip (
+                {"<Ctrl>V"},
+                _("Paste from clipboard")
+            )
+        };
+
+        append (cut);
+        append (copy);
+        append (paste);
+
+        add_css_class (Granite.STYLE_CLASS_LINKED);
+
+        cut.clicked.connect (() => {textview.cut_clipboard ();});
+        copy.clicked.connect (() => {textview.copy_clipboard ();});
+        paste.clicked.connect (() => {textview.paste_clipboard ();});
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/Window.vala b/src/Window.vala
index 60e1481..7bc20a0 100644
--- a/src/Window.vala
+++ b/src/Window.vala
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ public class AppWindow : Gtk.Window {
         buf = text_view.buffer;
         buf.text = "";
 
+        // TODO: use Granite.Box (HORIZONTAL, HALF) when granite-7.7.0 is released
+        var toolbar_box = new Gtk.Box (HORIZONTAL, 8);
+
+        toolbar_box.append (new CutCopyPasteButtons (text_view));
+
+        header.pack_end (toolbar_box);
 
         var scrolled_view = new Gtk.ScrolledWindow () {
             child = text_view,
diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
index f5f77ac..7b7c756 100644
--- a/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/meson.build
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ sources += files(
     'Window.vala',
     'Application.vala',
     'Utils.vala',
+    'CutCopyPasteButtons.vala'
 )