Mac: As much as we'd love it, Clipy is not a macOS version of Clippy, that little animated Windows paperclip that asks you how you're doing and gives you useful life advice. It's a must-have utility that makes your macOS clipboard 10 times more powerful, if there was any way to measure that sort of thing.

Android: Some apps in Android allow you to copy text, but not all of them. The ones that do might make it harder than it needs to be. Microsoft's new Clip Layer simplifies the task to make your research way easier.

iOS 9 has a ton of great little hidden features, and over on iDownloadBlog, they point out another one with "Paste and Search" and "Paste and Go," two new clipboard options that make searching in Safari a little more pleasant.

iOS: You wouldn't really think a clipboard manager would be that helpful in iOS, but Clips is a new app that proves that thought wrong. It allows you to easily cut, copy and access clipboard history from anywhere in iOS.

Chrome: Sharing text, code and other snippets with others can be tricky, particularly if you want to preserve formatting and context. Instalink is a Chrome extension that reduces this to a couple of clicks.

Android: Copy Bubble is a clipboard manager with a floating icon that makes it easy to copy text or images in one app and paste it in another. When Copy Bubble is active, you can copy data as you normally would. The counter on the icon will fill up as you copy more things.

Windows: We've featured plenty of clipboard managers before. Where CopyQ stands out is its ability to run commands or scripts on content you copy to the clipboard based on which type of content it is.

iOS/Mac: Sometimes, you just need to get something from your Mac to your iOS device instantly (or vice versa). Command-C is an (awkwardly named) app that makes it so you can copy clipboard data -- that includes images or text -- across iOS devices or between Mac and iOS.

Grabbing information from the Windows command line could be easier, especially if all you know of is "Mark" and "Copy" in the windows' context menu. Fortunately, there's a great shortcut you can use, courtesy of the handy pipe ("|") argument, that can speed up the process of securing the text your command-line programs spit out.

Chrome: If you use multiple computers, you might occasionally find the need to get your clipboard text from one computer to another. Clipboard Sync is a Chrome extension that makes it easy to copy text to any computer using Chrome.

Firefox: If you've ever had to copy and paste parts of the same page into a new document, you know it can be annoying to copy once, paste, go back, copy again, paste and repeat the process several times when you should be able to do it all once.

Windows: Sharing a good quote or image on Facebook or sending it to Simplenote takes an annoying amount of clicks. Click.to lets you pipe just about anything you copy to your clipboard to a number of desktop apps and online services.

Windows: Sharing files with Dropbox is pretty simple, but free utility Dropbox Linker makes it even simpler: Whenever you add a file to your public folder, it will automatically copy its public link to the clipboard for you.

Mac OS X: There are several clipboard history and management tools for Mac OS X, but most of them cost money and provide so many features that they're actually a little difficult to use. Clipboard History simply remembers your clipboard activity and makes it easily accessible from pretty much anywhere.

Windows: ClipCube is a little clipboard history tool that lives in your system tray, silently keeping track of everything you copy for as long as you'd like.

We've featured quite a few clipboard managers here at Lifehacker, but reader Java-Princess shows us that you already have one built in to your browser: the Firefox search box.

Windows: ClipUpload is about as easy as copy and click, letting you copy a file to the clipboard and clicking its icon in the task bar to upload it.

Windows: If you're looking to get more out of the clipboard function than merely shuttling one-off snippets of text back and forth, ClipManagerexpands the text, image, and file handling power of the clipboard.

Ever copied and pasted text from various websites and find some extra text in your clipboard that wasn't included in the text you selected. Here's how to stop this annoying (and privacy-invading) behaviour.