When comparing HovText vs ClipAngel, the Slant community recommends ClipAngel for most people. In the question“What are the best clipboard managers for Windows?” ClipAngel is ranked 7th while HovText is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose ClipAngel is:
At first you don't see it, but then you find more and more features using tooltips everywhere.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Trusted signed executable and open source
HovText has existed for 20 years and has always been open source.
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 :-)
Pro Keeps the most used clipboard entries at top
Most recent entries copied/pasted are available from a top-down principle.
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.
Pro Intuitive, fast and modern 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.
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.
Pro Portable and no installation needed
Fast, light, no installation process and no registration needed - just "click and use".
Pro Save clipboards on computer
The clipboards can be saved to local computer, so it can be reused after a computer shutdown.
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.
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.