Alternatives to clipse

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

  • clipcat

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    clipcat replaces the terminal interface with a Rust daemon, CLI and menu front ends that are easy to script, but has no ready-made graphical window.

  • Ringboard

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Ringboard offers CLI, terminal and graphical front ends on Linux for X11 and Wayland, installed with Cargo and systemd.

  • cliphist

    A command-line clipboard history manager for Wayland that works with dmenu, rofi, wofi and similar pickers.

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    cliphist is Wayland-only and shows history through dmenu-style pickers rather than a terminal interface, with image support.

  • Greenclip

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    Greenclip uses rofi for selection instead of a terminal interface and ships as a static binary with no dependencies.

  • clipmenu

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

    FreeOpen sourceLinuxCommand line

    clipmenu is a small X11-only history manager that relies on dmenu or rofi and ships a systemd user service.

  • CopyQ

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

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    CopyQ adds a graphical window with tabs and a scripting API, and runs on Windows and macOS as well as Linux.

Also worth comparing

These listings name clipse as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • Clipboard

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

    FreeOpen sourceCommand line

    clipse shows clipboard history in a configurable terminal interface for Unix systems, with no Windows or macOS app.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.