If you grew up in a Windows household in the 90s or 00s, you are sure to remember Clippy. Clippy was Word's built-in 'helper,' but he never really did much to help out. Clippy came pre-installed with Microsoft Office bundles from 1997-2003, and just wasn't intelligent enough to be of much use. 'It looks like you're writing a letter' never sounded more annoying. Whenever I hear the word 'clipboard,' I think of Clippy. The horror! One thing that doesn't make me angry, however, is the Mac app CopyClip.
What is it and what does it do
CopyClip is a powerful and easy-to-use Clipboard Manager that automatically saves everything you copy. You can access your recent clippings through a non-obtrusive drop down notification and pin your favorite clippings to save them for later use. You don't have to open the app to access your clipboard! CopyClip is a powerful clipboard manager that automatically saves everything you copy. CopyClip 2 – Clipboard Manager v2.9.91. AppStore QR-Code CopyClip 2 - Clipboard Manager. Developer: FIPLAB Ltd. CopyClip 2 is the slickest and most efficient premium clipboard manager for your Mac. Running discreetly from your menu bar, the app stores all that you have copied or cut in the past, allowing you to. CopyClip - Clipboard History Manager for Mac. CopyClip - Clipboard History Manager for Mac. Free FIPLAB Mac OS X 10.10/10.7/10.8/10.9 Version 1.5 Full Specs. Editors' Rating. CopyClip lets you manage and access your clipboard. We'll cut to the c.
Main Functionality
CopyClip is an Mac app that lets you view and manage your clipboard history that lives in your menu bar.
Pros
- Takes up very little space on your hard drive, and keeps a low profile by running in your menu bar
- Sleek interface that makes it easy to find snippets of text you've copied and pasted previously
- Cool ability to 'blacklist' certain apps from appearing in your copy/paste clipboard history
Cons
- No ideal for older Macs: you need to be running Lion or higher for this app to work on your Mac
Discussion
CopyClip is a sleek app that runs almost unnoticed on your Mac. Like all good menu bar apps, it's there when you need it, and not in your face when you don't want to look at it. I love the UI here: it's clear, concise, and easy.
From a simple drop-down menu, you can select from pieces of text that you copied earlier. In the Preferences menu, you can set how many clippings you want the app to display, and how many you want it to remember. The Preferences menu also lets you start the recording of clipboard pieces at startup.
Without question, the highlight of this tiny little menu bar app is the 'blacklist' feature. Anything that has been copied in a 'blackilisted' app won't be saved in your clipboard manager history. This is a great way to filter out clippings from certain tools and activities, ensuring that only the most relevant clipboard history items are shown.
Overall, CopyClip is a supremely simple little app. If you've ever been frustrated because you couldn't access a copy/paste item from earlier in your day, this app takes care of that pesky little problem.
Conclusion and download link
If you're anything like me, you probably copy and paste dozens of items in a given day. URLs, quotes, snippets of code, emails, words you want to ensure that you've spelled correctly: all this and more will show up in your clipboard history. There's no more hunting through your history to find the site you were quoting from for a report, or frantically trying to reconstruct a bit of code that you forgot to save. CopyClip makes your clipboard better than ever.
Price: Free
Version reviewed: 1.2
Supported OS: OS X 10.7 or later
Download size: 1.2 MB
Autocad Copyclip
In the era of the clipboard manager, everyday you find one.
Here's CopyQ, a Qt based, multi-platform (Windows, MacOS, and Linux), OSS offering that appears to be portable on Windows (stealth status unchecked!) -- settings from the zip version are kept in a 'config' sub-folder (FreewareFiles.com also lists a prior version as portable, cf. www.freewarefiles.com/CopyQ-Portable_program_88209.html).
Copyclip App
Check the homepage at http://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/ for more info.
Here's CopyQ, a Qt based, multi-platform (Windows, MacOS, and Linux), OSS offering that appears to be portable on Windows (stealth status unchecked!) -- settings from the zip version are kept in a 'config' sub-folder (FreewareFiles.com also lists a prior version as portable, cf. www.freewarefiles.com/CopyQ-Portable_program_88209.html).
Copyclip App
Check the homepage at http://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/ for more info. CopyQ current Windows version (v2.1.0) can be downloaded from Sourceforge, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/copyq/ ('Browse all files' and download the zipped package).
