When comparing ClipX vs CLCL, the Slant community recommends ClipX for most people. In the question“What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?” ClipX is ranked 4th while CLCL is ranked 6th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Lightweight and simple
Right now the program takes up 108KB in the Program Files folder.
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.
Cons
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.
Con May be difficult to get it to start with Windows
Con Development has stalled for many years
Con Clip list is too short
You can only see about ten clips at a time.