Top Clipboard Extensions for Chrome

Track Chrome Web Store rankings and performance metrics for clipboard extensions

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Market Structure and Scale

Chrome clipboard extensions serve niche enterprise and productivity markets, with Cyber-Ark Clipboard Extension leading at 1 million installs but only 3.9 stars (21 reviews). The category shows fragmented adoption—second-tier extensions like Clipboard Manager and Text Expander and IBM Cognos TM1 Web cluster at 100K installs, suggesting specialized enterprise use cases dominate over consumer clipboard managers. Install volumes pale against mainstream categories, reflecting that most users rely on OS-level clipboard managers.

Competitive Fragmentation

Cyber-Ark Clipboard Extension leads at 1M installs with weak 3.9 stars (only 21 reviews), followed by 100K-tier enterprise tools: Clipboard Manager and Text Expander (4.0 stars, 766 reviews), IBM Cognos TM1 Web appearing twice with different install counts (100K and 30K), and Secret Server Clipboard Utility (90K, 2.86 stars, 22 reviews). Consumer-focused alternatives cluster around 5K-10K installs, including Permanent clipboard (60K, 4.39 stars, 285 reviews), Copy History + (10K, 4.62 stars, 71 reviews), and Clipboard Tool (9K, 4.84 stars, 122 reviews). High install-to-review gaps suggest corporate-mandated deployments rather than organic adoption.

Enterprise vs Consumer Divide

The clipboard extension market splits sharply between enterprise security tools and consumer productivity apps. Enterprise leaders show poor engagement: Cyber-Ark has only 21 reviews at 1M installs, Secret Server sits at 2.86 stars, indicating required corporate deployment rather than user satisfaction. Consumer alternatives demonstrate superior quality: Clipboard Tool achieves 4.84 stars (122 reviews at 9K installs), Copy History + reaches 4.62 stars, and Copy-n-Paste scores 4.73 stars (77 reviews). This rating disparity suggests consumer tools offer better UX despite lower distribution.

Market Dynamics

The clipboard extension category remains niche due to operating system competition—Windows Clipboard History (Win+V), macOS Universal Clipboard, and Linux clipboard managers provide free built-in alternatives. Enterprise security tools dominate install counts through corporate IT mandates, explaining the disconnect between high installs and low ratings/reviews. Consumer clipboard managers face challenging user acquisition against OS defaults, creating opportunities only for highly differentiated offerings like text expansion integration (Clipboard Manager and Text Expander), cloud sync features, or developer-specific workflows. Success requires either enterprise sales channels or exceptional UX compelling enough to overcome OS-provided functionality.

Top Extensions

Cyber-Ark Clipboard Extension

Provides integration for Cyber-Ark products with the user's clipboard. (C) Cyber-Ark Software, Ltd. All rights reserved.

1,000,000 installs ★ 4.0 (22) Workflow & Planning
Clipboard Manager and Text Expander - Clipboard History Pro

Save, organize & instantly access clipboard history in Chrome. Sync across devices, create text snippets & boost productivity

100,000 installs ★ 4.0 (770) Workflow & Planning
IBM Cognos TM1 Web Clipboard Extension

This extension allows IBM Cognos TM1 Web access to the clipboard.

100,000 installs ★ 3.3 (3) Workflow & Planning
Secret Server Clipboard Utility

Clipboard helper for Secret Server

80,000 installs ★ 2.9 (22) Workflow & Planning
Permanent clipboard

Save and Organize Clipboard Snippets for Easy Access

50,000 installs ★ 4.4 (284) Tools
IBM Cognos TM1 Web Clipboard Extension

This extension allows IBM Cognos TM1 Web access to the clipboard.

30,000 installs ★ 4.3 (15) Workflow & Planning
Copy URL To Clipboard

Copy document URL / link URL to clipboard as HTML, Markdown, Text etc.

20,000 installs ★ 3.8 (45) Workflow & Planning
Clipboard Tool | Easy Copy and Paste

Manage copied items with Clipboard Tool: Easy Copy and Paste —a clipboard manager tracking clipboard history on Windows/macOS.

10,000 installs ★ 4.8 (177) Tools
Clipboard Image, Screen Capture to Drive

Save clipboard images, screen capture to Google Drive directly. This app allows you to one-click saving clipboard images to Drive.

10,000 installs ★ 3.5 (171) Art & Design
Copy-n-Paste: Clipboard Upload Simplified

Simplifies uploading copied screenshots, images, files from clipboard.

10,000 installs ★ 4.7 (85) Workflow & Planning
MultiCopy Clipboard, Copy & Paste

Save infinite copies. Copy & Paste infinitely!

10,000 installs ★ 3.3 (75) Workflow & Planning
Copy History +: The Best Clipboard History Manager Tool

Secure Clipboard History Manager to auto save copy paste text & snippets. Free easy tool to manage clipboard and boost productivity.

10,000 installs ★ 4.6 (74) Tools
Clipboard Inserter

A simple addon that inserts clipboard contents into the page. Uses icon made by Google from www.flaticon.com licensed by CC 3.0 BY

10,000 installs ★ 4.6 (14) Workflow & Planning
Quick Copy - most powerful clipboard manager

A superpowered clipboard inside your browser.

9,000 installs ★ 4.1 (45) Tools
Clipboard History Manager - Secure, Fast, and Open Source

Powerful clipboard history manager. Save, search & organize everything you copy. Tags, shortcuts & unlimited storage.

7,000 installs ★ 4.6 (52) Workflow & Planning