What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?

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Best clipboard managers for Windows	Price	OS	Approximate size
89 Ditto	Free	-	-
-- ClipClip	FREE	-	-
-- ClipMate	-	-	-
-- CopyQ	-	-	-
-- CLCL	-	-	-

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score 59 · Answer 1

Ditto

Top Pro

It's reliable, fast and quick

It just works...always. It's fast and quick, which can save you thousands of hours. See More

Top Con

Minimizes after each paste

You have to activate it twice to paste twice. See More

ChillZ's Experience

I couldn't use my disired shortcut (Win+V or SPACE+V) thus I quickly uninstalled it See More

Top Pro

Very configurable

You can set all sorts of things from size of database to size of individual clips, types of objects to copy/paste, which hotkeys to use etc. See More

Top Con

The UI is very confusing

I prefer a simpler and more modern UI. Then again, I very rarely need to configure anything in this program. Can't remember the last time I looked at the config! See More

naarcissus's Experience

It has been wonderful. Over 30,000 copy/pastes so far. Really handy when you bind the popup key to a mouse button. Makes data entry from a, or various sources much easier and a little less tedious. And the scripting function really makes pasting text in a reformatted form easy. No more having to copy, paste, edit to a format you want for each and every paste. Just copy, hit custom hotkey to paste reformatted text. The scripting is a little basic, but I'm hoping it will improve. See More

Top Pro

Scriptable clips

Clips can be used/changed with scripts during copy or paste. See More

Top Con

uninstaller removes nothing

after uninstalling I had to remove almost every file manually from different directories since the actual uninstaller only displayed "other files still remain" See More

CuriousIlmatar's Experience

I've been using Ditto every day for years and it has never given me any trouble. I don't use most of the features it has but for simple, everyday extended clipboard to copy and paste text and images it works very well. History list of recent copies is huge. The UI can be a bit overwhelming but for a simple setup such as I need it works very well out of the box. I've recommended it to co-workers and they were up and running in 5 minutes, no configuring needed to do the basic stuff which is 95% of all copy/paste functions. I would highly recommend it. See More

Top Con

Can't use any shortcut you wish

anything with spacebar, windows key is not possible. See More

Yanis's Experience

Cool and handy... But practice ! See More

Top Con

RTF bug is still present in latest Beta version

You can turn on the option to draw RTF text in the clip list, but it no longer works in Windows 10 Ditto (64bit), and the latest Beta version available today - which claims to have fixed the bug - still has the same bug. It will no longer draw RTF text as-is in the clip list. See More

Sidney's Experience

Flight Navigator See More

Top Con

Does not support HDPI displays

On high DPI/resolution displays, the UI is very small. Practically unusable. See More

ComposedMictlantecuhtli's Experience

Could not even understand the complicated insructions. Totally clumbsy to use. See More

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score 27 · Answer 2

ClipClip

Top Pro

It's free to use

You can download and use ClipClip completely for free. See More

Top Con

Closed source, so who knows where your passwords are going

MemorableKusarikku's Experience

ClipClip is an amazing time saver. It's when it's turned off that I realize just how much I've come to rely on it. See More

Top Pro

It integrates with other services

You can integrate ClipClip with Google Translate and Drive for higher productivity. See More

ColorfulElatha's Experience

Great it you have repetitive tasks, like answering support tickets See More

Top Pro

Shared templates

You can save templates and share them using any cloud storage provider. See More

PositiveAmaterasu's Experience

It is an excellent product! My productivity increased tenfold! See More

Top Pro

It helps you stay more organized

You can save content and categorize it. See More

EnthusiasticVertumnus's Experience

Well, is a great service and optimize software to make easier the clipboard record. See More

Top Pro

Saves clips for later

MellowPerun's Experience

It's an amazing tool. Makes important content available to reshare, reuse and helps me and my organization keep organized. Highly recommended. See More

Top Pro

You can translate text and images

ClipClip allows instant translation for text between any language pair supported by Google Translate, and it even supports images through OCR text extraction. See More

Alexander Semenov's Experience

I do a lot of work with code and text files and ClipClip allows me to make it much faster. See More

ExuberantVulcan's Experience

I get frustrated using any computer on which ClipClip is not installed. See More

MellowWuGang's Experience

Great tool for everyday use! See More

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score 14 · Answer 3

ClipMate

Top Pro

Screen capture

PracticalApedemak's Experience

Been using since its birth. Excellent, See More

Top Pro

Clip backup/archive

Dan Overlander's Experience

It is terrible that there is no further development or support for this, because this is STILL the best manager out there. What with the proper shortcut keys and clipboard bar in the Windows task bar, it just hasn't been rivaled still. See More

Top Pro

Stable and reliable

Eric Tellefsen's Experience

I have been using Clipmate for over 10 years and I consider it to be one of my must-have programs. Clipmate captures all things copied to the clipboard, saves and archives clips. It also has screen capture so there is on reason to by a separate program. The interface comes in both simple or advanced views regarding functionality. I highly recommend it. See More

Top Pro

Proper Shortcut Keys

This is, even in 2020, the only clipboard manager that allows you to set "Back" and "Next" clip keys, so you don't have to open the manager to change your selection. See More

CoolBaalHammon's Experience

No support anymore, buggy as hell. Company does not care for its existing customer. See More

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score 9 · Answer 4

CopyQ

Top Pro

Supports Rich Text

Shubn's Experience

very useful See More

Top Pro

Fast

kutta's Experience

recommended for advanced users also easy for beginners See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

UnderstandingMontu's Experience

nice experience overall blazing fast See More

Top Pro

Supports Images

ReasonableShaushka's Experience

almost nice experience . Helped me in copying images and much more See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Top Pro

multi-platform

Top Pro

open source

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score 8 · Answer 5

CLCL

Top Pro

Simple

Hit Ctrl+Shift+V (or any other chosen shortcut) and you have a menu of recent clipboard entries (text, image, etc.). Choose your entry (with preview in tooltip) and it is pasted in your application. See More

Top Con

Clip list is too short

You can only see about ten clips at a time. See More

Top Pro

Supports templates

You can copy an entry to your templates, organized in folders. So you can quickly recall frequently used strings (URLs, signatures, etc.). See More

Top Pro

Flexible

Paste a text or an image even after having made several copies after it. Allows to copy several snippets, then to paste them out of order, or in order. CLCL has template management, allowing to paste frequently used text fragments; it can manipulate the clipboard content; and has a clipboard viewer showing the various clipboard formats. See More

Top Pro

Plugins and tools

Plugins allows to support more clipboard formats. Tools can alter text in clipboard before pasting it. See More

Top Pro

Clipboard viewer

You can see the various clipboard formats, with hexa dump. See More

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score 9 · Answer 6

ClipX

Top Pro

Lightweight and simple

Right now the program takes up 108KB in the Program Files folder. See More

Top Con

No longer developed

ClipX is quite old, with the last stable version dating back to November 2005. The most recent update was July, 2008. See More

ReveredMenhit's Experience

I am using it almost everyday at work and at home for over 7 years and I am steel happy to use it today! Also it is free and there are many plugins :) See More

Top Pro

Free

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score 3 · Answer 7

clipcube

Top Pro

Built-in editor

Top Con

Not capturing the screenshots

it wont store the screenshot images in clipboard history See More

Top Pro

Mini Picker

Using ctrl+shift+x keys, a mini clipboard picker window is opened which makes choosing the items a lot easier. See More

Top Con

No update

Top Pro

Fast

Top Pro

Beautiful interface

Clean and user-friendly interface See More

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score 15 · Answer 8

ClipAngel

Top Pro

CTRL+ENTER pastes selected or all text as plain text

Top Con

Classical User Interface

User interface seems old. See More

Top Pro

Versalite and feature rich

At first you don't see it, but then you find more and more features using tooltips everywhere. See More

Top Con

Bitdefender may see it as malware

Top Pro

Great support

All bugs are being fixed very quick. See More

Top Con

Not enough clips on display in window

Top Pro

Supports comparing clipboards

Can be used to compare different clipboards. See More

Top Con

Big memory consumption

It takes up to 80-90MB of RAM. See More

Top Pro

Favourite clips possible

Top Pro

Shows image fragments in list

When doing copy-paste with many images, quick visual search in list is very important. ClipAngel shows representative fragment for every image clip in list without rescale. So it is very easy to find proper image. See More

Top Pro

HTML native formatting view

HTML clips by default are shown in native formatting. See More

Top Pro

Good preview of snippets (incl. images)

Top Pro

Unlimited storage of clips possible

Top Pro

Clip concatenation

You can join any number of clips very quickly. See More

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score 5 · Answer 9

ClipboardZanager

Top Pro

Safety

Avoid automatically keeping dangerous data and choose which apps must be ignored by the clipboard manager. See More

Top Con

No Mac support

ChillZ's Experience

Currently (5th June 2020) full of bugs and really unstable See More

Specs

OS:Windows

Approximate size:10MB

Top Pro

Clean UI, cool UX

The app integrates very well to Windows. See More

Lokman Afandy's Experience

Currently best clipboard manager i ever used, even ditto the most popular clipboard manager doesnt has safety and cloud sync and most importantly this one runs very fast and user friendly ! See More

Top Pro

Search

Filter your clipboard by type of data, do a search and select the data you want to copy or paste. See More

Top Pro

Synchronization

Your data syncs accross the cloud with your personal DropBox or OneDrive account to retrieve it on another device. See More

Top Pro

Performances

Very fast and fluid ! See More

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score 4 · Answer 10

ClipDiary

Олег Медведев's Experience

Best and very small utilite. See More

score 20 · Answer 11

Spartan

Top Pro

Can automatically save screen shots as JPEGs

Timber's Experience

Have been using this since 2010 and love it. See More

Top Pro

Encrypted log on system

DependableBastet's Experience

Has all the tools anyone could ever need See More

Top Pro

Script Langauge

Allows you to program multiple copy / paste operations from a single click. See More

jt2247's Experience

Author of Easy Base See More

Top Pro

Clip Viewer

Just move the mouse over the clip slots and you see a preview in the viewer - Text or graphic. See More

tt's Experience

Windows insider See More

Top Pro

Log on System

Spartan will not only fill in your user name and password but will also select the three characters that some sites ask for from your memorable word. See More

SmartDanand's Experience

Long term user See More

Top Pro

You can include the current date and time in clips

Have the current date and time added to your signature block in any format you wish. See More

Schliz's Experience

Programmer See More

Top Pro

The window can be sized separately for multiple monitors

If you have two monitors, for example, one standard VGA, and the other a high-res 28-inch, Spartan is the only app that lets you choose a separate magnification for each. See More

Sidney's Experience

Flight See More

Top Pro

Auto shrinks digital photos when pasting

There is an option to have graphics reduced in size when pasted into emails or documents. Really useful if your pics are from a 15 Megapixel camera. See More

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score 2 · Answer 12

Clipboard Magic

Top Pro

Runs in Windows System tray

Top Pro

Turn clipboard archiver off/on with a single click

Top Pro

Entirely free software

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score 1 · Answer 13

clipboardMASTER

Add Video or Image

score 1 · Answer 14

Plain Clipboard Manager

Top Pro

Paste multiple items at once

PowerfulMaderakka's Experience

Simple out of your way approach. Using text files which can also be stored on any cloud storage if wanted. Fast and small. See More

Top Pro

Saves screenshots as (lossless) PNG

Top Pro

Searchable

Top Pro

Plain text files

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score 5 · Answer 15

14 Options Considered

My Recommendation for Ditto

My Recommendation for Ditto

It's reliable, fast and quick

Minimizes after each paste

Very configurable

The UI is very confusing

Scriptable clips

uninstaller removes nothing

Can't use any shortcut you wish

RTF bug is still present in latest Beta version

Does not support HDPI displays

My Recommendation for ClipClip

My Recommendation for ClipClip

It's free to use

Closed source, so who knows where your passwords are going

It integrates with other services

Shared templates

It helps you stay more organized

Saves clips for later

You can translate text and images

My Recommendation for ClipMate

My Recommendation for ClipMate

Screen capture

Clip backup/archive

Stable and reliable

Proper Shortcut Keys

My Recommendation for CopyQ

My Recommendation for CopyQ

Supports Rich Text

Fast

Lightweight

Supports Images

Easy to use

multi-platform

open source

My Recommendation for CLCL

My Recommendation for CLCL

Simple

Clip list is too short

Supports templates

Flexible

Plugins and tools

Clipboard viewer

My Recommendation for ClipX

My Recommendation for ClipX

Lightweight and simple

No longer developed

Free

My Recommendation for clipcube

My Recommendation for clipcube

Built-in editor

Not capturing the screenshots

Mini Picker

No update

Fast

Beautiful interface

My Recommendation for ClipAngel

My Recommendation for ClipAngel

CTRL+ENTER pastes selected or all text as plain text

Classical User Interface

Versalite and feature rich

Bitdefender may see it as malware

Great support

Not enough clips on display in window

Supports comparing clipboards

Big memory consumption

Favourite clips possible

Shows image fragments in list

HTML native formatting view

Good preview of snippets (incl. images)

Unlimited storage of clips possible

Clip concatenation

My Recommendation for ClipboardZanager

My Recommendation for ClipboardZanager

Safety

No Mac support

Clean UI, cool UX

Search

Synchronization