Open-source alternatives to Paste

Paste remembers what you copy, lets you search that history and paste an earlier item again, and keeps frequently reused clips on pinboards. The open-source clipboard managers below do the same core job: they record copied text, and in most cases images and files, then bring any earlier item back with a shortcut or a click.

The main difference is presentation. Clipbara, Pasty and Pesty show the history as a strip of cards with pinboards, close to the layout Paste uses, while Maccy, Flycut and Clipy keep a compact list behind a hotkey, and PasteMemo sorts copied items by type with previews. PasteBar and CopyQ add collections, tabs or scripting, Buffer and Nimclip run OCR on copied images, and SaneClip focuses on excluding sensitive apps from the history.