CopyQ 15.0.0

CopyQ offers a customizable clipboard manager with text/image storage, tabs, notes, shortcuts, and advanced scripting support.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Apr 14, 2026 02:00 EDT with 0 comments

CopyQ

CopyQ is an advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features. CopyQ monitors system clipboard and saves its content in customized tabs. Saved clipboard can be later copied and pasted directly into any application.

Items can be:

edited with internal editor or with preferred text editor,
moved to other tabs,
drag’n’dropped to applications,
marked with tag or a note,
passed to or changed by custom commands,
or simply removed.

Features:

Support for Linux, Windows and OS X 10.9+
Store text, HTML, images or any other custom formats
Quickly browse and filter items in clipboard history
Sort, create, edit, remove, copy/paste, drag’n’drop items in tabs
Add notes or tags to items
System-wide shortcuts with customizable commands
Paste items with shortcut or from tray or main window
Fully customizable appearance
Advanced command-line interface and scripting
Ignore clipboard copied from some windows or containing some text
Support for simple Vim-like editor and shortcuts
Many more features

CopyQ 15.0.0 changelog:

Added

CSS properties for pinned/notes indicator color and width. See Plugin Indicators.
Diagnostic information in About dialog and version output for easier troubleshooting.
Script function stats() now includes per-process memory information.

Changed

"Show under mouse cursor" shortcut now hides the window if it is already visible (#2272).
Updated icon font to Font Awesome 7.2.0.
Dropped private Qt header usage (replaced with public QNativeInterface API).
Note for packagers: The application no longer links against private Qt headers, so it does not need to be rebuilt on Qt minor version updates.
Dropped support for unmaintained Qt 5 version of the app.
Improved performance of scripts.

Fixed

Fixed blank items appearing in search results.
Fixed rounded item corners showing wrong background color.
Fixed item background rendering on some systems and themes (#3495).
Fixed item vertical misalignment (missing top margin).
Fixed tray icon not showing before encryption password prompt (#3502).
Fixed tray menu not showing on Wayland when triggered via shortcut (#3325).
Fixed version string (#3516).
Fixed crash when accessing invalid ItemSelection.
Fixed item scrollbar colors.
Fixed a memory leak in clipboard monitor process and other long running client processes.
Windows: Excludes unnecessary test executable and some libraries from installer and portable zip.