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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CopyQ alternatives are mainly Clipboard Managers, but if you're looking for Note-taking Tools or File Search Utilities you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Linux. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to CopyQ.
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  1. Clipblade icon
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    Clip it once, blade it anywhere. Sharpen your productivity with the clipboard manager that also acts as your screen assistant.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Windows
     
  2. CopyLess icon
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    CopyLess was designed not to replace the system clipboard, but to extend it in many ways. Everything you copy to the system clipboard is captured automatically, so you do not need to care how to get the data to CopyLess.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. CopyX icon
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    Copy text with Command + C and append it to the last copied text instead of replacing it! Activate inserting with a custom shortcut.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  4. cliphist icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  5. Next-gen Clipboard Manager for Gnome Shell.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
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    Comments about Pano Clipboard Manager as an Alternative to CopyQ
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    Poor support: incompatible with fresh GNOME, no one replies to bug reports.

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    • Pano Clipboard Manager is Free and Open SourceCopyQ is also Free and Open Source
  6. Clipboard manager offering unlimited history, instant search, visual previews, AI-powered cleanup, OCR for extracting text, collections for organization, shortcut expansions, secure iCloud sync, on-device privacy, advanced filtering, and cross-device integration.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. Copy-paste nicely styled text to apps like GMail and Google Docs without learning new shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. genius is a complete clipboard manager with system-wide shortcut support and many more features for windows and linux operating systems. genius is a free open source application

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. PasteBox icon
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    PasteBox preserves data from clipboard and allows easy access to those data through shortcut. You can record various clipboard types, from plain text to images.

    48 PasteBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Copy'em Paste icon
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    Copy'em Paste lets you collect the things you like by simply copying them! Unlike regular clipboards which can store only one clipping, Copy'em Paste can store as many as you want, without limitation.

    86 Copy'em Paste alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  11. Clipboard Help+Spell is a text-based clipboard utility with the following features:

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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