Clipboard Manager for Windows and macOS — Meet ClipGator

Copy something. Copy something else. The first thing is gone. That is the entire clipboard, on every operating system, and it has worked that way for thirty years.

ClipGator keeps the last few things you copied — text and screenshots both — in one window you can pull up instantly.

What it does

ClipGator watches the clipboard in the background. Anything you copy lands in a list automatically: no shortcut to remember, no save button. Text and screenshots get their own sections, grouped by the day you copied them.

From there you can pin the things you paste constantly, select several entries at once and copy them together, or drag a screenshot straight into another app.

Where it earns its place

It is most useful when you are pulling from several sources at once:

• Moving code snippets and terminal commands between a browser and an editor

• Collecting visual references without saving twenty files to the desktop

• Research where you are copying quotes from half a dozen tabs

• Support work with the same handful of replies all day

• Any form-filling where the same email, ID or address goes in repeatedly

If you copy the same thing twice, ClipGator does not create a second entry — it moves the existing one back to the top. Screenshots are matched on their actual pixels and dimensions, so a re-copied image is recognised as the same image.

What it deliberately does not do

This is a trade-off, not an oversight, and it is worth being clear about which side of it you are on. Your clipboard sees passwords, private messages and client data. Nothing here is retained after you quit.

The cost is that history does not survive a restart. If you are looking for a searchable archive of everything you have ever copied, this is not that tool.

Installing it

Both builds are currently unsigned, so both operating systems will warn you the first time. This is expected for a small independent release and will change once code signing is in place.

Windows 10 and 11 on 64-bit are supported. On the Mac side the build is Apple Silicon only — M1 and newer.

This is an early release

ClipGator is at version 0.1.0 and is a public test build. The core is stable enough for daily use, but expect rough edges, and expect the feature set to move.

Download

Both builds, along with the full feature list and file sizes, are on the ClipGator tool page.

Questions