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CLUSTER CLIPBOARD-CROSS-PROVIDES · 38 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2009-06-11

Clipboard utilities and managers

This cluster spans a wide range of clipboard tools, including command-line utilities, desktop managers, libraries, terminal plugins, and specialized converters. Dated entries are scattered from 2008 through 2026 with no clear trend, reflecting an ongoing but sporadic stream of projects rather than a concentrated burst. The dated history is sufficient to see a long, uneven distribution at roughly one to two entries per month at most. copycrafter leads traction with 6 stars, far ahead of PromptMate (1 star) and clipboard-transformer (0 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

NOV 2008: 1JUN 2009: 1MAR 2010: 1JUN 2019: 1DEC 2019: 1JUN 2020: 1MAY 2021: 1OCT 2021: 2MAR 2022: 1JUN 2022: 1JUL 2022: 1AUG 2022: 1JUL 2023: 1JUN 2024: 1NOV 2024: 1JAN 2025: 1MAR 2025: 1APR 2025: 1MAY 2025: 1NOV 2025: 2JAN 2026: 3FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 5OCT 2026: 1
NOV 2008OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 16 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 2 indie · 12 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01copycrafter6★1 mo—ai-builtCross-platform desktop app to select and copy multiple file contents for use in LLM prompts.
  2. 02gnome-shell-extension-vicinae0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop shell extension that provides clipboard monitoring and window management features for a companion application.
  3. 03quickkey0★11 daysliveopen sourceDesktop utility that opens a hotkey menu of commands and sends the selected command output to the clipboard.
  4. 04brevity0★25 days—hobbyKeyboard-triggered utility that summarizes clipboard text with a language model and replaces it with the summary.
  5. 05clipclean0★21 days—hobbyClipboard utility that strips rich formatting from copied text so every paste is plain text on macOS and Windows.
  6. 06sentry__sentry-greptile__aether-final__PR1__202610080★2 days—open sourceSmart Clipboard & Snippets manager for Linux.
  7. 07clipboard-transformer0★1 moliveopen sourceTransforms clipboard content based on user-defined rules.
  8. 08Clippy0★1 moliveai-builtMinimal notepad for mobile and web serving as a tribute to Microsoft's Clippy assistant.
  9. 09clip-cli-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceCommand-line utility that bridges the system clipboard, allowing users to pipe content into and out of the terminal.
  10. 10PromptMate1★1 molivehand-codedhobbyLocal-first desktop tool for managing and copying prompt templates, with clipboard integration for quick reuse.
  11. 11paste-flutter0★1 mo—hand-codedindieA cross-platform desktop clipboard manager with search, categories, and encryption.
  12. 12Overout0★27 daysliveindieWindows application that gathers text copied to the clipboard, lets users organize and edit it, and exports the result to local files.
  13. 13ezpaste0★1 mo—Enables automatic sequencing of clipboard paste strings.
  14. 14webkit2gtk-imgpaste0★2 moliveopen sourceWeb content engine for GTK with patches that allow pasting images from the system clipboard.
  15. 15perl-clipboard0★3 moliveopen sourceLibrary that provides cross-platform copy and paste clipboard operations.
  16. 16cb2bib0★4 moliveopen sourceTool that converts clipboard text into BibTeX entries for building and managing bibliographic databases.
  17. 179paste0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceClipboard utility that automatically cleans, formats, and transforms copied text.
  18. 18mclip-bin0★9 mostaleliveopen sourceTool that synchronizes clipboard content between Mac and Arch Linux.
  19. 19fost0★4 moliveopen sourceA command-line tool that presents clipboard text rapidly for fast reading.
  20. 20richclip0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceCommand-line utility for managing clipboard contents across multiple platforms.

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