diff --git a/src/transcript/transcript-drawing-area.vala b/src/transcript/transcript-drawing-area.vala
index e100d27..8a002f7 100644
--- a/src/transcript/transcript-drawing-area.vala
+++ b/src/transcript/transcript-drawing-area.vala
@@ -22,12 +22,37 @@ private class TranscriptDrawingArea : Widget
     private Adjustment? _viewport = null;
     private const float bubble_margin = 18.0f;
 
+    private GestureClick _click_gesture = new GestureClick();
+    private Gdk.Rectangle? _click_bounding_box = null;
+
     private const bool debug_viewport = false;
     private uint? _tick_callback_id = null;
     private HashMap<string, ChatItemAnimation> _animations = new HashMap<string, ChatItemAnimation>();
 
     public TranscriptDrawingArea() {
         add_css_class("transcript-drawing-area");
+        
+        weak TranscriptDrawingArea self = this;
+
+        _click_gesture.button = Gdk.BUTTON_SECONDARY;
+        _click_gesture.begin.connect(() => {
+            self.on_right_click();
+        });
+        add_controller(_click_gesture);
+
+        SimpleAction copy_action = new SimpleAction("copy", null);
+        copy_action.activate.connect(() => {
+            if (_click_bounding_box != null) {
+                copy_message_at(_click_bounding_box);
+            } else {
+                GLib.warning("Failed to get bounding box for right click");
+            }
+        });
+
+        SimpleActionGroup action_group = new SimpleActionGroup();
+        action_group.add_action(copy_action);
+
+        insert_action_group("transcript", action_group);
     }
 
     public void set_messages(ArrayList<Message> messages) {
@@ -147,6 +172,39 @@ private class TranscriptDrawingArea : Widget
         animation_tick();
     }
 
+    private void on_right_click() {
+        var menu_model = new Menu();
+        menu_model.append("Copy", "transcript.copy");
+
+        Gdk.Rectangle? bounding_box = null;
+        if (_click_gesture.get_bounding_box(out bounding_box)) {
+            _click_bounding_box = bounding_box;
+
+            var menu = new PopoverMenu.from_model(menu_model);
+            menu.set_position(PositionType.TOP);
+            menu.pointing_to = bounding_box;
+            menu.set_parent(this);
+            menu.popup();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void copy_message_at(Gdk.Rectangle bounding_box) {
+        double y_offset = 0.0;
+        for (int i = _chat_items.size - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
+            var chat_item = _chat_items[i];
+            y_offset += chat_item.get_height() + chat_item.vertical_padding;
+            
+            if (y_offset > bounding_box.y) {
+                var text_bubble = chat_item as TextBubbleLayout;
+                var text = text_bubble.message.text;
+
+                var clipboard = get_clipboard();
+                clipboard.set_text(text);
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     private bool animation_tick() {
         HashSet<string> animations_to_remove = new HashSet<string>();
         _animations.foreach(entry => {