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Add to SafariWhen comparing Cortana vs HovText, the Slant community recommends HovText for most people. In the question“What are the best power user tools for Windows?” HovText is ranked 51st while Cortana is ranked 74th. The most important reason people chose HovText is:
HovText has existed for 20 years and has always been open source.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can recognize music
You can ask Cortana what music is playing and she will attempt to identify it.
Pro Will let you know when artists you're interested in play in your area
Cortana monitors your Bing search history, social network actions, music played, etc to find out what are your favorite artists and will let you know if they plan to play in your area.
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.
Cons
Con Functionality is limited on non-Windows devices
While Cortana is available on Android and iOS, certain features on those operating systems are either limited or non-existant. For example, there's no hands-free voice activation on iOS, and on Android it's only available on the homescreen and nowhere else, etc.
