CopyQ
A clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied in searchable tabs, with scripting on top.
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Package managers
- winget
winget install --id hluk.CopyQ - Chocolatey
choco install copyq - Homebrew
brew install --cask copyq - Flathub
flatpak install flathub com.github.hluk.copyq
About CopyQ
CopyQ watches the clipboard and stores what passes through it: text, HTML, images and arbitrary formats. History is filterable, items can be tagged, annotated, edited and sorted into tabs, and any entry can be pasted back with a global shortcut without opening the window.
Beyond the basics it has a command line interface and a scripting API, so a copied value can be transformed on the way in or out. It can also be told to ignore copies from a named window or containing a given pattern, which keeps passwords out of the history.
Strengths
- Stores text, images, HTML and custom formats, not just plain text
- Tabs, tags, notes and filtering for a history you actually use
- Scripting API and a command line for transforming clipboard content
- Can ignore copies from named windows so secrets never land in history
Limitations
- The interface is functional rather than attractive
- Scripting is where the power is, and that means learning its API
- macOS 13 or newer only
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL 3.0.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- Lukas Holecek
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Anyone who copies dozens of things a day and needs the one from twenty minutes ago
- Categories
- Clipboard managers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Automation); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.
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Clipy
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Pastebot
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