When comparing CLCL vs ClipMate, the Slant community recommends ClipMate for most people. In the question“What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?” ClipMate is ranked 5th while CLCL is ranked 6th.
Specs
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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 Screen capture
Pro Stable and reliable
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.
Pro Clipbar toolbar
The Clipbar shows the last clip text and allows shortcut access to other commands for scree capture, etc
Pro Clip backup/archive
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 Unicode not supported
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.