Clipboard Managers Apps and Alternatives

While Windows comes with an embedded clipboard, the truth is that you need more than the basic features it provides on various occasions. From automatically grabbing the content you are copying to extended capabilities such as copying images and text from from a wide variety of file formats, a clipboard manager can help you get work done faster and more efficiently.

Generally speaking, clipboard managers are meant to provide users with additional clipboard functionalities such as storing several items within the clipboard (instead of a single item, as is the Windows default because it overwrites old entries with new ones).

Additionally, these specialized software applications can also offer access to the clipboard data even after the host program was closed. All in all, these applications are addressing those who want to go beyond storing one piece of data at the time and that need to work with multiple snippets, regardless of their type.