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. 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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  2. 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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    • Mac
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  3. 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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    • Mac
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  4. 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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Google Chrome
    • Python
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  5. 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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    • Mac
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  6. 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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    • Mac
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  7. 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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    • Mac
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  8. 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.

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    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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