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Maccy
A lightweight, open-source clipboard manager for Mac.
Built with love by Shushant Lakhyani. Building bestproductivityresources.com
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
- Free and open source (MIT)
- Fast keyboard search of your clipboard history
- Stays out of the way in the menu bar
Cons
- Needs macOS Sonoma 14 or later
- Does one job: no launcher or snippets
Who should use Maccy
Mac users who copy and paste a lot and want their history back.
Who may not need it
People already using a launcher with clipboard history built in.
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