Clipdiary vs Relic
Clipdiary
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Relic
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| Figure | Clipdiary | Relic |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 6 |
| Spec score · Clipboard Manager Software | 8.1 (#11) | 8.6 (#3) |
| Spec score · Clipboard Managers | 7.9 (#15) | 9.5 (#1) |
| Organization | Users can star important clips and organize clipboard history with labels into folders. | Users can promote items to a Vault, add titles, notes and tags, set reminders, and create snippets. |
| Product | Clipdiary is a clipboard manager that saves clipboard contents to a history for later retrieval. | Relic is a clipboard manager that captures copied items and syncs them across devices. |
| Support | Registered customers receive free lifetime technical support. | Support is handled by email and GitHub issues; the support page says replies may take a day or two because the team is small. |
Plans
Clipdiary
- Free Personal LicenseFree
- Personal License$19.99, paid once
- Business License$29.99, paid once
- Extended License$39.99, paid once
- Site license (150 PCs)$1,499.99, paid once
In their own words
Clipdiary
Clipdiary is a Windows clipboard manager that saves copied content in a history for later retrieval. It can record plain text, RTF, BMP images, HTML, files, and other clipboard data formats. Users can search the history, star important clips, and sort clips into labeled folders. The Snippets feature keeps frequently used text, including replies, addresses, and code, ready for pasting. The maker says clipboard history stays on the computer and can be password-protected with AES-256 database encryption. Clipdiary has a free plan and a fully functional 60-day trial. Paid licenses are one-time purchases: the Personal License costs 19.99 USD once for personal, non-commercial home use, while business, academic, or government use requires the Business License at 29.99 USD once. The Extended License costs 39.99 USD once for up to five family-owned computers, including a work PC. The maker offers a portable version, free lifetime technical support for registered customers, and an unconditional 30-day money-back guarantee. Future updates are free starting with Clipdiary 5.72.
Relic
Relic is a clipboard manager that captures copied items on desktop and syncs them across devices. On phones, users must share items to Relic or use a shortcut or tile. Search can use text, meaning, date phrases and text extracted from screenshots. Tagging, OCR, image captioning and semantic search run on the user's device, without cloud AI. Vault items can be titled, tagged, annotated, saved and given reminders. A command-line tool can read and search a vault, and the help guide describes connecting AI agents to search, save and retrieve items. Relic encrypts content on-device with XChaCha20-Poly1305 and derives the wrapping key using Argon2id; the server stores encrypted content. The maker says it cannot read content, titles, notes or tags, while collecting service metadata such as account email and item counts. The apps, sync server, encryption code and self-host stack are open source. Self-hosting is free under AGPL-3.0. The hosted Free plan supports three synced devices and 250 MB; Pro is $5 a month billed yearly, or $7 month to month.