Bestel Clipboard History Manager

Bestel Clipboard History Manager is a simple and portable application that can monitor your Clipboard history to help you review your copied clips and retrace your steps when working on important projects. It features just a couple of intuitive options that can be handled even by casual PC users.

Portable tool with systray integration

The downloaded program files can be saved in a custom location on the disk or copied to a USB flash drive, in order to directly launch it on any computer with minimum effort and no previous installers. Worth noting is that it doesn't add new entries to the Windows registry, so it doesn't increase the risk of OS stability issues. Moreover, it doesn't create additional files on the HDD without your permission.
Once started, it gets integrated into the taskbar notifications area and creates an icon that provides direct access to the Clipboard history as well as app options. The utility automatically starts recording the text clips as soon as it's launched, whether we're talking about plain text or URLs.

Keep track of copied text, even web links

These can be reviewed in a list in the main configuration panel, where you can mark any selected clip as the active one. It's possible to remove any entry from the list if you change your mind, as well as to clear everything. The status bar shows the date and time of last checked and added items, along with the number of total clips.
Keyboard shortcuts are supported. Furthermore, you can switch to another UI language, disable the application from saving items on shutdown, as well as alter the default number of maximum items to keep in the storage area.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't experienced any compatibility issues in newer Windows in our tests, although the tool hasn't been updated for a long time. CPU and RAM usage was low, unsurprisingly. It may not have rich features, but Bestel Clipboard History Manager offers a simple solution for monitoring copied text content.