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CLUSTER CLIPBOARD-HISTORY-MANAGER · 14 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2010-10-07

Searchable local clipboard managers

This cluster comprises desktop clipboard managers that store copy history locally and provide full-text search, with some adding features like pinning, OCR, summaries, and backups. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from – it predates the index or its members are undated. The leader on traction is nexus-clipboard with 29 stars, followed by myself (3) and Carbon (2).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

OCT 2010: 1DEC 2020: 1NOV 2023: 1DEC 2025: 1MAR 2026: 1AUG 2026: 6SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 2
OCT 2010OCT 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 · 3 hand-coded · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 5 hobby · 4 open source · 5 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 14 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01copyama19★9 days—hobbyWindows clipboard manager that records history, recognizes text and file types, and lets users search and paste items with a global hotkey.
  2. 02KwikPaste9★21 days—Clipboard manager that stores copied text, images, and files locally and makes searchable history available with a shortcut on desktop.
  3. 03myself3★3 days—hobbyDesktop personal knowledge manager that collects clipboard and notes, offers full-text search, and generates summaries and reminders.
  4. 04ClawBoard2★12 days—hobbyClipboard manager that floats over the desktop, keeping searchable history and quick phrases with text transformations and privacy controls.
  5. 05Carbon2★29 days—A clipboard manager for Windows that stores history, supports snippets, collections, search, and OCR, all locally.
  6. 06qscopy1★3 mo—ai-builthobbyClipboard manager for a Linux desktop environment offering keyboard navigation, search, pinning, and clipboard history preview.
  7. 07nocb0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop clipboard manager that stores clipboard history with compression and full-text search.
  8. 08paster-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceClipboard manager that stores clipboard history and supports pasting text and images.
  9. 09Miniclip0★unknownliveSimple clipboard manager for Linux that stores text and image history for quick searching and copying.
  10. 10anamnesis0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceClipboard manager that stores history and offers full-text search.
  11. 11klipr0★unknownlivehand-codedClipboard history manager for Linux that captures copied text, images, and commands, offering fuzzy search and pinned favourites.
  12. 12tclip0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceClipboard manager written in TCL/TK that stores and manages clipboard history.
  13. 13FyClip - Advanced Clipboard Manager0★unknownliveDesktop clipboard manager that stores searchable clipboard history with a quick-access panel, date filtering, sensitive content detection, and backups.
  14. 14One-Click Clipboard Memo0★unknownliveai-builthobbyUtility that saves clipboard content as a quick memo with a single click for later reference.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.