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What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?

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Sep 20, 2023

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Here’s the Deal

The Best 1 of 17 OptionsWhy?

Best clipboard managers for Windows	Price	Platforms	Initial release
92 Ditto	FREE	Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11	2003-08-11
80 CopyQ	FREE	Windows 11, MacOS Ventura, Linux Kernel 6.2 or above	2009-10-18
-- ClipClip	FREE	Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11	2014-09-30
-- ClipMate	$34.95	Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10	1991-12-01
-- CLCL	FREE	Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10	2005-02-11

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

Uninstaller removes nothing

After uninstalling removal of almost every file manually from different directories is still necessary since the actual uninstaller only displays "other files still remain". See More

Shoji Meguro's Experience

Totally not recommend because it literally removes all clipboard that i have once it is updated to new version via portableapps See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11

Initial release:2003-08-11

Approximate size:15 MiB

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

Minimizes after each paste

You have to activate it twice to paste twice. 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

Does not support HDPI displays

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

IntelligentHephaestus's Experience

The software is very well thought-out out and executed. Warning: this program will become indispensable with a short trial (free) 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

GenuineKhipa's Experience

Used Ditto for many years without glitches. Saves everything without any practical limits. Delete all clips or selected clips from list. Use folders to save special clips for possible future reuse. Doesn't delete history on restart. See More

Top Con

The UI is very confusing

ChillZ's Experience

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

Top Con

Can't use any shortcut you wish

Anything with spacebar, windows key (that the system also uses) is not possible. See More

Sidney's Experience

Flight Navigator See More

Top Con

Portable version will remove all clipboard record once it is updated to newer version

Yanis's Experience

Cool and handy... But practice ! See More

ComposedMictlantecuhtli's Experience

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

16 Other Options Considered

CopyQ

Top Pro

Supports Rich Text

kutta's Experience

recommended for advanced users also easy for beginners See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows 11, MacOS Ventura, Linux Kernel 6.2 or above

Initial release:2009-10-18

Top Pro

Fast

Shubn's Experience

very useful See More

Top Pro

Lightweight

UnderstandingMontu's Experience

nice experience overall blazing fast See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

ReasonableShaushka's Experience

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

Top Pro

Supports images

Top Pro

Open source

Top Pro

Free

Top Pro

Multi-platform

Top Pro

Simple to setup

Top Pro

Browse and filter items in history

Quickly locate that snippet you copied months ago but don't recall precisely what it was. See More

Top Pro

Cross-platform and cross-DE

CopyQ supports all major Linux desktop environments (including KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, etc.), Windows and MacOS X 10.9+. See More

Top Pro

Add notes or tags to items

Most effective with stacks that don't automatically delete the oldest members, tags and notes allow you to use CopyQ as a personal database for important information with easy access and retrieval. See More

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

Specs

Platforms:Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11

Initial release:2014-09-30

Top Pro

It helps you stay more organized

You can save content and categorize it. See More

ColorfulElatha's Experience

Great it you have repetitive tasks, like answering support tickets 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

PositiveAmaterasu's Experience

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

Top Pro

It integrates with other services

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

EnthusiasticVertumnus's Experience

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

Top Pro

Shared templates

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

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

The screen capture tool helps speed up my research activities

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

Top Pro

It helps me manage email templates

MellowWuGang's Experience

Great tool for everyday use! See More

Top Pro

Saves clips for later

ExuberantVulcan's Experience

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

ClipMate

Add Video or Image

Top Pro

Screen capture

Top Con

Unicode not supported

PracticalUsinsh's Experience

I've also used it for many years and consider it a must-have utility See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

Initial release:1991-12-01

Top Pro

Stable and reliable

Top Con

Clipbar toolbar

The current edition of Win11 does not allow the use of toolbars in the Taskbar area. However, the program still remains one of the top clipboard utilities. See More

kmi's Experience

For a long time, I thought clipmate was the best and almost perfect clipboard manager. Thoughtful, careful. But there is one HUGE flaw in it, which crosses out all its advantages. It does not support unicode. I corresponded with the author, he confirmed this and the issue of revision was passed over in silence. Considering when the latest version was released, we can assume that the project is dead and can be excluded from consideration. 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

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

Clipbar toolbar

The Clipbar shows the last clip text and allows shortcut access to other commands for scree capture, etc See More

CoolBaalHammon's Experience

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

Top Pro

Clip backup/archive

PracticalApedemak's Experience

Been using since its birth. Excellent, See More

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

CLCL

Add Video or Image

Top Pro

Choose clips with only a mouse click, or cursor keys

Top Con

Development has stalled for many years

Specs

Platforms:Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

Initial release:2005-02-11

Top Pro

You can make clip list as long as you want

Top Con

Clip list is too short

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

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 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

arsclip

Add Video or Image

Top Pro

Can make clips permanent

Allows you to quickly use/reuse text & objects tied to hotkeys. See More

Top Con

Lacks options

VigorousGugalanna's Experience

Was able to configure to my needs. Ability to have permanent clips. See More

Top Pro

Amazing clipboard management for text and objects

It can handle rich text, plain text, pictures, etc. See More

Top Con

Old user interface

JovialKondole's Experience

The only one of three managers from the list (Ditto, CopyQ and ClipAngel) that pastes copied text in Windows 7 Explorer address bar. Much more options in my opinion. Anyway, the paste menu font was too small for my taste. Just had to go to options and use the search option (SO SO SO much useful in so much options) and change the font size. It has an old UI but works wonderful in such a short test. See More

Top Pro

Nice for intermediate users

Top Con

Not for beginners

ClipDiary

Add Video or Image

Олег Медведев's Experience

Best and very small utilite. See More

ClipAngel

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

Classical User Interface

User interface seems old. See More

Top Pro

Unlimited storage of clips possible

Top Con

Bitdefender may see it as malware

Top Pro

CTRL+ENTER pastes selected or all text as plain text

Top Con

Not enough clips on display in window

Top Pro

Great support

All bugs are being fixed very quick. See More

Top Con

Big memory consumption

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

Top Pro

Supports comparing clipboards

Can be used to compare different clipboards. 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

Clip concatenation

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

ClipboardZanager

Add Video or Image

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

ShojiVR'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

Specs

Platforms:Windows

Approximate size:10MB

Top Pro

Clean UI, cool UX

The app integrates very well to Windows. See More

ChillZ's Experience

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

clipboardMASTER

Add Video or Image

HovText

Top Pro

Remove formatting from text copied

Copying text from the internet or from Office applications most often will include styles and formatting when pasting, but HovText can remove all this formatting, so only the raw unformatted cleartext will be pasted - this is a life-saver :-) See More

Beauvais's Experience

I have been using HovText for many years, and it is rock solid and works fluently for what I need it to do. It does require .NET 4.8, but try it out and see how easy it is :-) See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows 7/8/10/11

Initial Release:2004-02-24

Newest Release:2023-09-20

Approximate Size:0.4MB

Top Pro

Keeps the most used clipboard entries at top

Most recent entries copied/pasted are available from a top-down principle. See More

Top Pro

Trim whitespaces and empty new-lines on copied text

When marking text with the mouse, it often adds a whitespace at the beginning or the end of the text or there are some empty lines above or below that gets copied too, but HovText has an option to remove whitespaces at beginning and end - very useful. See More

Top Pro

Intuitive and fast UI for finding previous copied texts or images

When viewing the list of previous copied clipboards, then it is easy to find the relevant text or image you need. See More

Top Pro

Fully user configurable

All hotkeys can be configured and all layout, style and screen display can be tweaked, so there is a chance you can have it setup as you want. See More

Top Pro

Portable and no installation needed

Fast, light, no installation process and no registration needed - just "click and use". See More

Top Pro

No data stored in cloud or locally

Data is only stored in memory, and at application exit or Windows reboot all copied data and history vanishes. See More

Copy 2 Online

Add Video or Image

Top Pro

Free/Trial account

You can use this application during 7-days as a free user. See More

Top Con

Freemium

Free version is limited to : Copy 100 characters at once See last 10 copy history Up to 2 sessions See More

WiseSvetovid's Experience

I've used a lot of clipboard apps over the years but this this is the best so far! The app runs really fast and the search engine is very good. My favorite part is the desktop application because the spotlight-like search part is very useful for me. See More

Top Pro

Speed

Strong searching ability and fetch data. See More

ResponsibleWollunqua's Experience

It supports many platforms and it is online and access your own data you copied in any other devices. Especially reason I recommend is the user-friendly screens and speed to fetch data. See More

Top Pro

User-Friendly

LovelyMarzyana's Experience

Very fast searching and extraordinary design while still very practical. It is addictive. See More

Top Pro

Online

Cloud based then access from any devices. See More

Shoji Meguro's Experience

This clipboard functionality is totally limited due to its pricing plans and I don't recommend this apps because there is lot of free alternatives with similar features out there. See More

Top Pro

Search Window by pressing Alt+Space

Really user-friendly. See More

Top Pro

Free usage

Free accounts can open multiple session and share the data between devices. For the paid users, there are many ability while managing copy history and opening the much more sessions. See More

Top Pro

Promo-Code Section

Nowadays, they have promo-code to have discount. Promo-code is "C2O100". See More

Clips

Add Video or Image

Top Con

Cannot fully change keyboard shortcut

NiceTaevataat's Experience

Free to use! Configurable See More

CooperativeNerio's Experience

Visually the most attractive clipboard app. See More

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