Comments on: 10 Clipboard Managers for OS X

By: El tío Emil

El tío Emil — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:56:09 +0000

By: emlak editör

emlak editör — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:52:47 +0000

Perhaps the most venerable of them all, CopyPaste

By: georgewatanabe

georgewatanabe — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:59:17 +0000

Kind of weird to miss out CopyPaste Pro which is the daddy of multiple clip utilities. It was the first one I saw over a decade ago. They do a great job of constantly updating it. Sometimes when they slow down I try other ones like those above but I always come back because its the simplest and most useful.
http://www.plumamazing.com/mac/copypaste

What I find most amazing is how most people don’t know how incredibly useful it is to have multiple clipboards. Using a computer without CopyPaste is painful. Thanks for the overview.

By: rado

rado — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:32:30 +0000

Thanks, this was helpful.

By: sozluk

sozluk — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 08:48:26 +0000

Great article…!

I’ve been using Savvy Clipboard for a while now but looking to change. It has a nasty habit of forgetting the odd clipping! Also, it looks a bit too ‘OS9′.

Clyppan is a great find! Nice and fast, and looks modern. Just wish it had image support……

By: julian miller

julian miller — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:56:02 +0000

its surprising that copypaste is not mentioned above especially since peter hoerster created it back in the 90′s and it was the only clipboard program for many years. they (above) are right it is venerable since it was the first multiple clipboard program. we have been improving, updating and selling it for almost 20 years. it worked back on on os 7 remember that? the latest complete rewrite is for os 10.5 and higher only. the latest version copypaste pro is fast, unobtrusive and has lots of useful features. we still work hard to improve it. we don’t just add features but work to make it useful.

the new url for copypaste is:
http://www.plumamazing.com

andrew the author says “The clipboard in a modern operating system is one of the most useful and practical tools available” and he is absolutely right. anyone who uses a mac and has no clipboard manager is wasting a lot of precious time. a clipboard manager is essential to accomplishing work efficiently and quickly.

all the competition that has sprung up is great. we especially like it when new programs don’t copy copypaste but use their own creativity. give copypaste a try and you will see why it has a cult following and costs a little more.

By: nev

nev — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:44:47 +0000

Does any one of these allow you to copy some text to a particular clip “bin” (ie, bin 1, 2, 3, etc) and then paste from one of those bins – entirely by way of keyboard shortcuts?

CopyPaste used to do this, and I liked that. You could copy some text into (eg) “bin” 9, by pressing Command-C-9, and then later paste that back into something by pressing Command-V-9. same with other ordinal numbers for other “bins”.

I can’t work out if any of these actually do this !

By: kim

kim — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:49:09 +0000

Looking for one that automatically changes snippet after each pasting in sequence. Tried the free stuffs from above but seemed none worked that way, or did I miss anything?

By: yabancı dizi izle

yabancı dizi izle — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:41:27 +0000

Perhaps the most venerable of them all, CopyPaste

By: archer

archer — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:10:05 +0000

just ordered my first mac /macbook pro/ and doing research to find which windows apps have mac versions and etc.

i was so hoping that yankeeclipper clipboard manager that i have used forever, loved, and become addicted to, would have a mac version. it doesn’t.

if anyone has used it and can tell me which of the above most closely approximates its awesomeness, i would love you for it.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:33:28 +0000

I use Launchbar’s and find it to be more than suitable. I had Clips (surprised to see that you haven’t featured it) but it’s so sluggish and, in my opinion, over-feature-rich that I ditched it for Launchbar.

By: mpmchugh

mpmchugh — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:24:15 +0000

I use Butler for clipboard management…. amongst many other things… ;-)

By: Florian Fiegel

Florian Fiegel — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:49:19 +0000

I use Corkboard since several month and it is also very cool and handy …

By: claytron

claytron — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:31:38 +0000

#12 I guess I learned to live with that after a while. That was terribly annoying. LuanchBar does not force that in the same way.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:08:15 +0000

I wanted to use Quicksilver for clipboard management, but its insistence on automatically placing an “http://” in front of IP addresses is beyond annoying. I’ve moved to JumpCut and I like it a lot, although I wish there was an option for not taking up valuable space in my menubar with an icon.

By: Herbert Kornfeld

Herbert Kornfeld — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:20:20 +0000

I’ve seen mention of LaunchBar and Clips in the comments already. Another way to get a clipboard history is with macro applications like Keyboard Maestro and QuicKeys.

http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
http://www.startly.com/products/quickeys/mac/4/