Alternatives to Clipboard
A cross-platform command-line clipboard tool for copying, pasting and keeping clipboard history in the terminal. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Clipboard
A cross-platform command-line clipboard tool for copying, pasting and keeping clipboard history in the terminal.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Clipboard.
clipcat
A clipboard manager for Linux written in Rust, with a daemon, command-line control and menu front ends.
clipcat moves to a Linux-only Rust daemon with CLI and menu front ends that are easy to script, but it requires configuration and has no ready-made window.
cliphist
A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers.
cliphist is a Wayland-only command-line history that feeds dmenu-style pickers and supports images, rather than a cross-platform copy and paste tool.
clipse
A configurable clipboard manager for Unix systems that shows your clipboard history in a terminal interface.
clipse shows clipboard history in a configurable terminal interface for Unix systems, with no Windows or macOS app.
Ringboard
A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.
Ringboard is Linux only but supports X11 and Wayland with CLI, terminal and graphical front ends, and is designed for low memory use.
GPaste
A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.
GPaste offers command-line access plus a GTK 4 window and GNOME Shell extension sharing one history, but it is built for GNOME on Linux.
CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
CopyQ adds a graphical interface with tabs on Windows, macOS and Linux while still offering a command line and scripting API.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Clipboard as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Greenclip
A small clipboard history manager for Linux that is designed to be used through rofi.
Clipboard handles copy, paste and history from the terminal on multiple operating systems, without rofi integration.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
clipmenu
A simple X11 clipboard history manager that uses dmenu, rofi or similar for selection.