# Ditto Alternative for Windows & Mac: Ditto vs ClipTen > Looking for a Ditto alternative? ClipTen keeps ten copies on number keys that never shift. Plus a clip panel to search, pin and fix copies. For Windows and Mac. URL: https://clipten.com/ditto-alternative Updated: 2026-10-17 About ClipTen: https://clipten.com/llms.txt ClipTen (https://clipten.com/) Best clipboard manager for Windows (https://clipten.com/best-clipboard-manager-for-windows) Ditto alternative ## Ditto alternative for Windows and Mac Ditto keeps a list of everything. ClipTen puts the things you use most on keys that never move. If you paste the same things every day, you feel the difference. ### Quick answer Checked October 2026 by the founder ClipTen (https://clipten.com/) is a Ditto alternative made for pasting the same things fast. You pick the key while you copy, and it stays there until you replace it. Nothing shifts when you copy something new. - Save Ctrl + C + 3 Your copy now lives on key 3. - Paste Ctrl + V + 3 Pasted, in any app, as often as you like. Ditto runs only on Windows. ClipTen runs on Windows and on Mac, where it is ⌘ + V + 3. It sits happily next to Ditto if you keep both. We make ClipTen, and we respect Ditto. This page shows what each one is best at, so you can pick the one that fits the way you work. Everything about Ditto here comes from its own documentation, checked in September 2026. ### The difference in one example You are answering support emails. Every reply needs the same three things: a greeting, a returns link, and a sign-off. In Ditto, you copy the three into the history. Then you set up Ditto’s position hotkeys so Ctrl + 1 pastes the newest item, Ctrl + 2 the one before, and so on. It works — until you copy a customer’s order number. Now the order number is position 1 and everything else has slid down a place. Your fingers were right a minute ago and are wrong now. For things you use forever, Ditto lets you open a saved clip’s properties and give it its own hotkey, one clip at a time, in the window. In ClipTen, you copy the greeting and press Ctrl + C + 1, the link onto 2, the sign-off onto 3. That is the whole setup. Copying an order number with plain Ctrl + C changes nothing on 1, 2 or 3. Next week they are still there. That is the entire difference. Ditto remembers everything, in order. ClipTen remembers what you told it to, where you told it to. ### Side by side | | Ditto | ClipTen | | Price | Free, open source | Clipboard free, everything $14 once | | What it keeps | Everything you copy, in a searchable history | 10 number slots you fill, plus a History: 24 hours free, 7 days with all 10 (up to 12 months) | | To paste | Open the window (Ctrl + `), search, pick — or a position hotkey you set up | Ctrl + V + the number | | Numbered keys | Off until you assign them; they point at the newest items, so they shift | On from the start; each number keeps its item until you replace it | | Search old copies | Yes, excellent | Yes, in the clip panel (Alt + Space), with all 10 | | Text, images, files | Yes, plus custom formats | Yes, any size, several files in one slot | | After a restart | Kept | Kept, encrypted on disk | | Edit clips, paste as plain text | Yes | Yes, in the clip panel | | Groups, scripting | Yes | No | | Learning it | An options window with many tabs | Two moves | | Where your copies go | Your PC; optional sending to your other PCs | Your PC only, no sync | | Works on | Windows only | Windows 10 and 11, and Mac | ### The clip panel, for everything else Pasting by number needs no window. When you do want to look back, press ⌘ + Space or ⌥ + Space on a Mac, Alt + Space or Ctrl + Space on Windows. One panel opens with every copy to search, plus your slots, emoji, files and notes. - Search your History and filter by Text, Links, Images, Files or Colours. History keeps 24 hours free, 7 days with all 10 (up to 12 months). - Paste fast. ⇧ + ↵ pastes plain text, and ⌘ + 1 to ⌘ + 9 (Ctrl on Windows) pastes the top nine. - Pin, edit and add notes, copy text out of images, and fix text before you paste: UPPER, lower, Title Case, trim spaces, join lines, format JSON, remove tracking. - 1,900+ emoji with skin tones, drag any copy into any app, or share it to Gmail, WhatsApp, Telegram, X or Outlook. The clipboard panel is free; the full one comes with everything for $14, once. Every feature → (https://clipten.com/features) ### Where ClipTen is better - The keys do not move. This is the one that matters. A shortcut is only fast if your hand can trust it without looking. - No setup. There are no options to find before it is useful. The shortcut is Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V with a number on the end, which most people learn in about five seconds. - Nothing to open to paste. Ctrl + V + a number pastes straight away. The clip panel is there only when you want to search. - It runs on Mac too. Ditto is Windows only. ClipTen is on Windows and Mac, with the same keys using ⌘ on a Mac. - It skips passwords. Copies from password managers are never saved, and you can pick apps whose copies are never kept. ### Where Ditto still wins - It is free. ClipTen has a free plan too, but Ditto is free for everything. - Longer history. ClipTen keeps 24 hours of History free, and 7 days with all 10 (up to 12 months if you choose). Ditto can keep more copies, with no time limit. - Power features. Groups, custom formats and scripting. If you like to tinker, Ditto rewards it. ### Using both Plenty of people will. Ditto (or Win + V) for looking backwards; ClipTen for the handful of things in front of you. The only thing to watch is the keys: if you gave Ditto’s positions Ctrl + 1 to Ctrl + 0, move them, or paste ClipTen slots with Ctrl + Shift + the number — ClipTen tells you when that is needed. Comparing more than two? Our list of seven clipboard managers (https://clipten.com/best-clipboard-manager-for-windows) covers CopyQ, ClipClip, ClipboardFusion and the free ones built into Windows and Office. Last checked September 2026. ### Keep reading - Best clipboard managersSeven compared, ClipTen first (https://clipten.com/best-clipboard-manager-for-windows) - Copy paste app for PCWhat ClipTen is, in two minutes (https://clipten.com/copy-paste-app-for-pc) - How ClipTen worksTwo moves, ten pockets (https://clipten.com/how-it-works) - Paste app alternativeFor Windows and Mac (https://clipten.com/paste-app-alternative) - Maccy alternativeKeys that never shift (https://clipten.com/maccy-alternative) Download forMac (https://clipten.com/mac#install) Get it fromMicrosoft - Slots 1 to 5 free, no daily limit - No card, no subscription - Everything for $14, once On a Mac, it installs in about a minute with one line in Terminal (https://clipten.com/mac#install).