Alternatives to Clipboard History
A GNOME Shell extension that saves what you copy into a searchable clipboard history panel. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Clipboard History
A GNOME Shell extension that saves what you copy into a searchable clipboard history panel.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Clipboard History.
Clipboard Indicator
A GNOME Shell extension that adds a clipboard history menu to the top panel.
Clipboard Indicator is also a GNOME Shell extension, placing a clipboard history menu in the top panel, with over two million downloads and upkeep for current GNOME versions.
GPaste
A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.
GPaste stays on GNOME but adds a background daemon, GTK 4 window and command line that share one history, useful for scripting.
CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
CopyQ is a standalone app for Windows, macOS and Linux, so it works outside GNOME and adds tabs, tags, rich formats and scripting.
Diodon
A lightweight GTK clipboard manager for Linux desktops, originally built for Unity.
Diodon is a separate GTK app packaged in Debian and Ubuntu with plugin support, but it is in low maintenance mode and built around Unity.
Ringboard
A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.
Ringboard works on any Linux desktop with X11 or Wayland and offers CLI, terminal and graphical front ends, installed through Cargo and systemd.
Qopy
An open-source clipboard manager for Windows, macOS and Linux with a searchable history.
Qopy is a standalone open-source app for Windows, macOS and Linux with searchable history, shipped as deb, rpm and AppImage packages.
EcoPaste
An open-source cross-platform clipboard manager for Windows, macOS and Linux.
EcoPaste is an open-source Tauri app for Windows, macOS and Linux, so it is independent of GNOME Shell releases, with some documentation mainly in Chinese.
Clipman
A clipboard history plugin for the Xfce panel that keeps text and images after apps close.
Clipman is a panel plugin for the Xfce desktop instead of GNOME, storing text and images and running regex-triggered actions on copied text.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
cliphist
A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers.
clipmenu
A simple X11 clipboard history manager that uses dmenu, rofi or similar for selection.
Greenclip
A small clipboard history manager for Linux that is designed to be used through rofi.
clipse
A configurable clipboard manager for Unix systems that shows your clipboard history in a terminal interface.
clipcat
A clipboard manager for Linux written in Rust, with a daemon, command-line control and menu front ends.