CopyQ Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to CopyQ is Ditto, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are PasteBar, Planck, CopyCat Clipboard and Maccy. There's no shortage of Clipboard Managers like CopyQ, with more than 100 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone and iPad.

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  1. McDitto icon
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    Ditto is a native macOS clipboard manager. Every copy — text, rich text, images, files — is kept, searchable and one keystroke away. It's the unofficial macOS sibling of the Windows classic Ditto.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  2. Clip is a tiny web tool that helps you send text between devices when copy & paste doesn’t work. No account. No installation. Works on any browser. Text is temporary, approval-based, and never stored.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  3. Keyboard-driven multiple-clipboard manager for Windows: hold Ctrl, tap V to walk back through everything you have copied, release to paste - no window, no mouse. A .NET 10 + WPF reimplementation of Clipjump, shipped as one self-contained portable exe.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Windows
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  4. Mimer icon
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    Mimer is a free, open-source (MIT) clipboard manager that lives in the macOS menu bar. Press Shift-Cmd-V to open a command palette over your clipboard history: search as you type (with type:, app:, is:fav and /regex/ filters), then paste, favorite, or transform any clip.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. ClipV icon
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    Minimal, native clipboard manager for macOS — one-time purchase, cross-type history (text, code, images, files), and instant search.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. KeptInFlow is a Windows 10 and 11 app that stops you retyping what is already on your screen. It works where your cursor already is, in every app: Outlook, Word, Slack, your browser, your code editor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  7. ClipGate icon
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    Terminal-native clipboard vault for developers — auto-classifies, encrypts secrets, and recovers context fast.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Python
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  8. CleanBoard is a lightweight clipboard utility for macOS that removes unwanted formatting from copied text—so you can paste clean, plain text into any app with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  9. Clip Log icon
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    Say goodbye to losing important snippets of text and images! Clip Log is the ultimate clipboard manager, combining intelligent organization, real-time saving, and privacy-first design. Designed to simplify your workflow, Clip Log ensures that everything you copy is instantly...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  10. ClipboardMenu is a powerful yet lightweight clipboard manager that lives in your Mac's menu bar. Never lose copied content again - access your complete clipboard history and save frequently used items as snippets for instant reuse.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. Advanced Recent Access is designed to see more properties of your recent used resources (files and directories). Key features: can see more properties of the recent resources, such as path, size, type, date modified and date created. And more.

    260 Advanced Recent Access alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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