Category:Clipboard Utilities

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The common feature of clipboard utilities is that they allow the user to paste more than just the last cut or copied text. By storing a (configurable) number of recent items, the user can choose any of these.

Here's a scenario I have used to create a blog post:

• I'm looking at an article I want to post about.
• I copy the page URL.
• I copy two or three different chunks of text.
• I switch to my text editor (or blogging web interface)
• I use ArsClip to paste the different copied text into my blog post.

Without using a clipboard utility, I would need to switch between windows multiple times to select and copy each chunk and then revert to the posting window to paste.

[edit] External Links

• Wikipedia article on clipboard managers with links to more software... but the big list was removed. Here's the list extracted from the page's history:

[edit] Free and/or open source

Windows

• 101 Clips (Includes both text and graphic clip editors)
• ACM - Advanced Clipboard Manager is a free Java based manager that stores multiple clipboard text contents and lets you lock, restore, and retrieve them for later use. With Unix-like commands and a GUI + text interface, it lets users do many advanced things to the contents including features like awk and joins.
• ArsClip
• CLCL
• Clip Guru
• Clipboard.NET
• Clipboard Recorder Standard (Also has a professional version available)
• Clipdiary (clipboard history tool)
• Clipomatic (light footprint)
• Cliptorrent
• ClipX
• Desktop Data Manager (for Linux)
• Ditto-cp
• Flashpaste Lite
• Hamsin Clipboard
• Ten Clipboards
• Yankee Clipper

Mac

• Savvy Clipboard
• Jumpcut

Linux

• Glipper (for Linux - particularly for GNOME)
• GNOME Clipboard Manager (for Linux - unmaintained)

[edit] Commercial and Shareware

Windows

• ClipCache Pro
• JGSoft AceText
• Clipboard Express Pro
• Clipmate
• Flashpaste Pro
• Global Clipboard
• Spartan MultiClipboard (Portable versions for flash and U3 drives available). Successor to M8 Multi-Clipboard
• TextPad is an enhanced text editor. It also keeps a clipboard history accessible to all applications.

Mac

• iClipboard
• iClip