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. ClipX icon
     53 likes

    ClipX is a tiny clipboard history manager. It is sweet, it is free, use it. You can use the system tray icon to restore your old clipboards and use a hotkey to paste them directly inside your favorite editor.

    138 ClipX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. Pop Clipboard icon
     4 likes

    Clipboard manager syncing 3-day history across Apple devices via iCloud, with share sheet support, batch pasting, advanced search, contextual actions, multi-tasking, drag and drop, universal keyboard, no accounts required, and efficient management of content.

    83 Pop Clipboard alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  3. Unclutter icon
     28 likes

    Efficient desktop app for organizing notes, files, and clipboard clips. Access by pointing and scrolling down. Instantly configurable, supports Dropbox sync, multi-display setups, and Retina displays. Includes draggable cards and clipboard history tracking.

    177 Unclutter alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  4. Pasta icon
     4 likes

    Pasta is a beautiful and flexible clipboard manager for the mac. It saves everything you copy to your clipboard so you can reuse it later.

    141 Pasta alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. ClipAngel icon
     19 likes

    ClipAngel is an extension to the standard Windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any saved item at a later time. It saves main types of data that can be put on the clipboard: text, images, html, files.

    135 ClipAngel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. PastePal icon
     5 likes

    PastePal is a native macOS application that allows us to easily manage pasteboard history, notes and shortcut.

    187 PastePal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  7. PromptClip icon
     2 likes

    PromptClip is a clipboard manager for Mac built for anyone who uses AI tools, writes a lot, or copies and pastes all day. Keeps your full clipboard history, saves reusable snippets, and lets you paste anything instantly with a keyboard shortcut.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Parcellite icon
     27 likes

    Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.

    123 Parcellite alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  9. GPaste icon
     8 likes

    GPaste - Clipboard management system.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
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  10. ClipMenu icon
     36 likes

    ClipMenu can manage clipboard history. You can record 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image.

    157 ClipMenu alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. PasteDaemon icon
     1 like

    Menu-bar clipboard manager for macOS enabling automatic triggers, shell-style pipelines with variable referencing, persistent undo per entry, fuzzy-searchable and time-filtered history, hotkeys, paste queue, per-app exclusion, image OCR, import options, robust privacy, and local HTTP API.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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