When comparing ClipAngel vs CLCL, the Slant community recommends CLCL for most people. In the question“What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?” CLCL is ranked 6th while ClipAngel is ranked 7th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Versalite and feature rich
At first you don't see it, but then you find more and more features using tooltips everywhere.
Pro Unlimited storage of clips possible
Pro CTRL+ENTER pastes selected or all text as plain text
Pro Great support
All bugs are being fixed very quick.
Pro Supports comparing clipboards
Can be used to compare different clipboards.
Pro Favourite clips possible
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.
Pro HTML native formatting view
HTML clips by default are shown in native formatting.
Pro Good preview of snippets (incl. images)
Pro Clip concatenation
You can join any number of clips very quickly.
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 Classical User Interface
User interface seems old.
Con Bitdefender may see it as malware
Con Not enough clips on display in window
Con Big memory consumption
It takes up to 80-90MB of RAM.
Con Development has stalled for many years
Con Clip list is too short
You can only see about ten clips at a time.