When comparing CLCL vs Ditto, the Slant community recommends Ditto for most people. In the question“What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?” Ditto is ranked 1st while CLCL is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Ditto is:
It just works...always. It's fast and quick, which can save you thousands of hours.
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Pros
Pro Choose clips with only a mouse click, or cursor keys
Pro You can make clip list as long as you want
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.
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.).
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.
Pro Plugins and tools
Plugins allows to support more clipboard formats.
Tools can alter text in clipboard before pasting it.
Pro Clipboard viewer
You can see the various clipboard formats, with hexa dump.
Pro It's reliable, fast and quick
It just works...always. It's fast and quick, which can save you thousands of hours.
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.
Pro Scriptable clips
Clips can be used/changed with scripts during copy or paste.
Cons
Con Development has stalled for many years
Con Clip list is too short
You can only see about ten clips at a time.
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".
Con Minimizes after each paste
You have to activate it twice to paste twice.
Con Does not support HDPI displays
On high DPI/resolution displays, the UI is very small. Practically unusable.
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.
Con The UI is very confusing
Con Can't use any shortcut you wish
Anything with spacebar, windows key (that the system also uses) is not possible.