CopyQ Alternatives

CopyQ is described as 'Multi-platform clipboard tool monitoring and saving text, images, and custom formats, with tabs, search, shortcuts, scripting, and customization for efficiency' 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 Mac, Windows, 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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  1. Clipboard Router is a free, open-source clipboard workspace for Apple-silicon Macs running macOS 14 or later.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  2. simple clipboard manager for Wayland, built in Rust. It saves a history of your clipboard content, and lets you paste things you've copied earlier. It also lets you configure "favorite" pastes for strings you need often.

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    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
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  3. CopyCharm icon
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    CopyCharm is a Windows desktop app that helps users collect and reuse copied text, important clips, and saved prompts for AI work. It stores copied text locally and provides search and favorites to help users find useful material from past work.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Macopy keeps a history of what you copy and puts it a keyboard shortcut away. Pick an entry and it pastes straight into whatever app you were using, so you never go hunting for something you copied five minutes ago.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  5. Pluks icon
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    Auto-copies any text the moment you select it — no Ctrl+C needed. Provides deep click paste and a searchable local clipboard history. Works on Mac and Windows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  6. Cliply keeps everything you copy on macOS—text, images, screenshots—and lets you paste it instantly. ??V to open, type to find, ?? to paste. Local database, no cloud, zero tracking. One-time purchase with 14-day refund. Apple Silicon native.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  7. everclip is a headless, event-driven X11 CLIPBOARD history daemon and pipe-first CLI. It stores stable history records in a Turso database (sqlite3) while keeping each original X11 target payload in a deduplicated blob store.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Linux
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  8. Copychest icon
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    Clipboard manager for Windows with searchable history, reusable saved text, and region screen capture with annotation. Stored locally, no account.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Saved text in projects and categories, searchable as you type.
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  9. ClipCapsule is a minimalist clipboard manager for Linux. It supercharges your productivity by allowing you to manage and switch clipboard entries using only keyboard shortcuts—no mouse or GUI required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Go (Programming Language)
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  10. 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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    Platforms

    • Mac
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  11. 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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