CopyQ Alternatives

CopyQ is described as 'Multi-Platform Clipboard Manager with Advanced Features' and is a very popular clipboard manager in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to CopyQ for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best CopyQ alternative is Ditto, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like CopyQ are PasteBar, Planck, CopyCat Clipboard and Maccy.

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CopyQ alternatives are mainly Clipboard Managers, but if you're looking for Note-taking Tools or Text Expanders you can filter on that. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to CopyQ.
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CopyQ alternatives page was last updated May 6, 2025
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  1. ClipTray icon
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    ClipTray is a small taskbar application that maintains a history of all the Clipboard operations. Then you can recover an old or previously copied element and re-use it in your own way.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.61, released in December 2011, can be still downloaded from SourceForge

    ClipTray Features

    1.  Sits in the System Tray

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  2. Clipboard icon
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    Clipboard is a utility that lets you cut, copy, and paste text and files on any PC. Through being optimized for small size, easy operation, and integration with existing clipboard systems, Clipboard has been designed to improve the user experience of using the clipboard while in...

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Self-Hosted

    Clipboard Features

    1.  C++
    2.  Wayland Support
    3.  X server
    4.  Cross-Platform

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    • Clipboard is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to CopyQ.

    • Clipboard is Free and Open SourceCopyQ is also Free and Open Source
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    Cliphist is an efficient Linux-based Wayland clipboard manager supporting both text and images, conserving content byte-for-byte. It archives clipboard changes to a history file, integrates with tools like dmenu or rofi for recall, and remains lightweight, open-source, and ad-free.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Ad-free
    2.  Wayland Support

    Cliphist VS CopyQ

     
  4. Collective icon
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    Meet Collective. Clipboard history for your Mac. Done right.

    Nearly anything you can copy, Collective will remember.

    Text, images, PDFs, movies, URLs, appointments, files: Collective keeps track of whatever you copy.

    With a simple key combination (?-Shift-V) Collective appears.

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    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    The app seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 2.0.2, released in April 2014, can be still bought from Mac App Store.

    Collective VS CopyQ

     
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    Clipboard Manager extension for Gnome-Shell: Adds a clipboard indicator to the top panel, and caches clipboard history.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Clipboard Indicator VS CopyQ

     
  6. Glipper icon
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    Clipboard manager.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 2.4, released in August 2012, can be still downloaded from Launchpad

    Glipper Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

    Glipper VS CopyQ

     
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    ClipMagic is the Windows clipboard software for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 that speeds up your copy and paste. Fed up with copying and pasting one piece of text at a time? Fed up with repetition? If you use CTRL-C or Edit/Copy then you need ClipMagic!

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

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  8. Clipple icon
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    Clipple provides extended clipboard system to Firefox. All text you copied will be stored and you can paste text in it later.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Firefox
    Discontinued

    The extension is not compatible with Firefox 57. Last version, 0.1.3, released in January 2016, still works on XUL-based Firefox forks like Waterfox icon Waterfox and Pale Moon icon Pale Moon

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  9. Clipjump icon
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    Clipjump : The Ultimate Clipboard Manager for Windows

    Clipjump is a Multiple-Clipboard management utility for Windows. It allows you to simultaneously use multiple clipboards like never before. Everything that is transferred to your clipboard will get automatically transferred t.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    Since 2016 or after 2 years, no new version. Also see https://github.com/aviaryan/Clipjump/issues/136

    Clipjump Features

    1.  Portable

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  10. PasteAway icon
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    The PasteAway Paster is a client app that lets you easily paste clips from your online repository into any application.

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    PasteAway VS CopyQ

     
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