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22 Best Free and Open Source Clipboard Managers

Linux has a number of proficient clipboard managers. We make our recommendations – all free and open source.

Clipboard Sync is a utility that synchronizes the clipboard across multiple X11 and Wayland instances running on the same machine.

nwg-clipman is a GUI tool intended for use with sway, Hyprland and other wlroots-based Wayland compositors.

wayclip is a pair of command-line utilities: waycopy and waypaste, which allow access to the Wayland clipboard.

Recycle your clipboard selections with Greenclip and don’t waste your time anymore to reselect things over and over.

cliphist is a clipboard history “manager” for Wayland. It’s written in Go.

Glipper is a clipboard utility for the GNOME panel. Glipper appears in the notification area. Glipper is free and open source software.

Clipman is a clipboard manager for Xfce. Clipman is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

Keepboard is a clipboard manager. It supports saved items groups and adding names to items for quicker filtering and selection.

Klipper is a clipboard manager. It stores a history of the clipboard contents and can automatically perform actions when certain items are selected.