Alternatives to cliphist

A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as cliphist.

  • Ringboard

    A fast, memory-efficient and composable clipboard history manager for Linux on X11 and Wayland.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Ringboard supports both Wayland and X11 and brings its own CLI, terminal and graphical front ends, though installation expects Cargo and systemd.

  • clipse

    A configurable clipboard manager for Unix systems that shows your clipboard history in a terminal interface.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    clipse shows history in its own configurable terminal interface instead of a dmenu-style picker, and needs some setup to hook into a desktop.

  • clipcat

    A clipboard manager for Linux written in Rust, with a daemon, command-line control and menu front ends.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    clipcat is a Rust daemon with CLI and menu front ends that are easy to script, but it requires configuration.

  • Greenclip

    A small clipboard history manager for Linux that is designed to be used through rofi.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Greenclip is a static binary designed around rofi with static snippet entries, configured through files.

  • clipmenu

    A simple X11 clipboard history manager that uses dmenu, rofi or similar for selection.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    clipmenu also works with dmenu or rofi and ships a systemd user service, but it runs on X11 only, not Wayland.

  • GPaste

    A clipboard management system for GNOME with a background daemon, GTK 4 interface and command line.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    GPaste provides a daemon, GTK 4 window and CLI sharing one history, but it is built for GNOME rather than minimal compositors.

  • CopyQ

    A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    CopyQ is a graphical GPL-3.0 manager with tabs, image support and scripting, running on Linux, Windows and macOS.

  • Clipboard

    A cross-platform command-line clipboard tool for copying, pasting and keeping clipboard history in the terminal.

    FreeOpen sourceCommand line

    Clipboard handles copy, paste and history from the terminal across multiple operating systems, but it does not integrate with dmenu-style pickers.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.