Clipboard Manager for Mac

UPDATE

I have actually now started using Clippings from the app store. It's $2.99 and worth it.

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The reasons I decided to stop using PTHPasteboard were that it is a little buggy and I tried to send feedback to the author but never heard anything. Also it is expensive at $25. Wish the author was continuing development and taking requests for a couple of UI/UX fixes, but until then I really like "Clippings"

ORIGINAL POST

I'm coming from Windows and LOVED the Ditto clipboard manager. It was SO SIMPLE and powerful. Wish I could find the same thing for Mac.

I first tried ClipMenuand Jumpcut, and have also tried using Quicksilver's built in clipboard manager. I have not been too happy with any of them. I also looked at a few articles describing the so called best clipboard manager for mac, like this one. The closest one I could find was Clyppan ($5) until I found this question and tried PTH Pasteboard as Mark had suggested.

Here's the functionality that I loved about Ditto:

  • It can manage text or images, but it has an option to only keep track of text, which was important to me.
  • It has an option so that text is always pasted as plain text (removes formatting)
  • You can change the shortcut keys to anything you want. I prefer cmd+shift+v on mac.
  • When activated it showed a list of clipping, typing text would filter the results to only show matches. Using the up or down arrow keys (or a number key - results were numbered) would choose the selection, and enter would paste it. Clyppan has this, but you have to activate it, press cmd+f to search, type in your string, then press tab about 4 times, then you can use the arrow keys. Too much work.
  • Clyppan also has a "rapid paste" feature that I like - you can paste the last several things on the clipboard in reverse order. I think Ditto did this as well. Haven't figured out how to do that yet with PTH Pasteboard but I'm not sure it is impossible.

If Clyppan would just fix the shortcut keys so that I could search and select clips more easily I would highly recommend it - otherwise i'd say PTH Pasteboard is much more powerful and by far my favorite choice.

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I use JumpCut


I use ClipMenu.

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