Alternatives to Clipboard Indicator
A GNOME Shell extension that adds a clipboard history menu to the top panel. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Clipboard Indicator
A GNOME Shell extension that adds a clipboard history menu to the top panel.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Clipboard Indicator.
Clipboard History
A GNOME Shell extension that saves what you copy into a searchable clipboard history panel.
Clipboard History is another GNOME Shell extension that offers a searchable history panel instead of a top panel menu, with the same GNOME-only limitation.
GPaste
A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.
GPaste also targets GNOME but adds a background daemon, a GTK 4 window and a command line that share one history, usually installed from distribution packages.
CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
CopyQ is a standalone GPL-3.0 app for Linux, Windows and macOS rather than a GNOME extension, with tabs, image storage and a scripting API.
Diodon
A lightweight GTK clipboard manager for Linux desktops, originally built for Unity.
Diodon is a lightweight GTK app packaged in Debian and Ubuntu, not tied to GNOME Shell, but it is in low maintenance mode with no new features planned.
EcoPaste
An open-source cross-platform clipboard manager for Windows, macOS and Linux.
EcoPaste is a separate open source app for Linux, Windows and macOS rather than a panel extension, built with Tauri.
Qopy
An open-source clipboard manager for Windows, macOS and Linux with a searchable history.
Qopy is an open-source standalone app for Windows, macOS and Linux with deb, rpm and AppImage packages, not tied to the GNOME desktop.
Ringboard
A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.
Ringboard works on any Linux desktop under X11 or Wayland with CLI, terminal and graphical front ends, but installation expects familiarity with Cargo and systemd.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Clipman
A clipboard history plugin for the Xfce panel that keeps text and images after apps close.
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.
