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Mac App

Maccy

A lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for Mac.

Visit Maccy4.6

  • Rating

    4.6 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Beginner

  • Works on

    macOS

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What is Maccy?

Maccy keeps a history of everything you copy on your Mac so you can search it and paste an older item with a keyboard shortcut. It is open source under the MIT licence and free to download from GitHub or install with Homebrew. It needs macOS Sonoma 14 or later. Maccy's README warns that maccy.app is the only official website.

Pros: what Maccy does well

  • Free and open source (MIT)
  • Fast keyboard search of your clipboard history
  • Stays out of the way in the menu bar

Cons: where it falls short

  • Needs macOS Sonoma 14 or later
  • Does one job: no launcher or snippets

Who Maccy is for

Mac users who copy and paste a lot and want their history back.

Who can skip it

People already using a launcher with clipboard history built in.

Compare Maccy

See how Maccy stacks up, side by side, plus the lists it made.

Maccy alternatives

Not sold on Maccy? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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Rectangle

Focus: window manager and window snapping. Shares open source and raycast alternative with Maccy. Rated 4.7 (Maccy: 4.6).

Mac AppFreemacOS
4.7Visit

ueli

Focus: launcher and keyboard shortcuts. Shares open source and raycast alternative with Maccy. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Windows and Linux. Rated 4.3 (Maccy: 4.6).

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.3Visit

CopyQ

Focus: snippets. Shares clipboard manager and clipboard history with Maccy. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Windows, Linux and Offline. Rated 4.5 (Maccy: 4.6).

Desktop AppFreeWindows, macOS
4.5Visit

Atuin

Focus: shell history, terminal and command line. Shares open source with Maccy. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Linux and Windows. Rated 4.7 (Maccy: 4.6).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

btop

Focus: system monitor, terminal and processes. Shares open source with Maccy. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Linux and Offline. Rated 4.7 (Maccy: 4.6).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

Free alternatives to Maccy

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

htop

Focus: process viewer, system monitor and terminal. Shares open source with Maccy. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Linux. Rated 4.7 (Maccy: 4.6).

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.7Visit

Vaultwarden

Focus: password manager, self-hosted and bitwarden. Shares open source with Maccy. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Web. Rated 4.7 (Maccy: 4.6).

Web AppFreeWeb
4.7Visit

Dashy

Focus: dashboard, start page and self-hosted. Shares open source with Maccy. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Web. Same 4.6 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit

Homarr

Focus: dashboard, homelab and self-hosting. Shares open source with Maccy. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Web, Windows and Linux. Same 4.6 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Windows
4.6Visit

Homepage

Focus: dashboard, start page and docker. Shares open source with Maccy. A web app, not a Mac app. Adds Web. Same 4.6 rating.

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit

kitty

Focus: terminal, command line and gpu. Shares open source with Maccy. A desktop app, not a Mac app. Adds Linux. Same 4.6 rating.

Desktop AppFreemacOS, Linux
4.6Visit
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