Maccy
Maccy is a macOS clipboard manager that keeps your copy history searchable and ready to reuse from the menu bar or a keyboard shortcut.
What is Maccy?
Maccy is a native clipboard manager for macOS that helps you keep, search, and reuse items you have copied. It is designed for people who frequently move text, links, code snippets, and other clipboard content between apps and want faster access than the standard one-item clipboard allows. You can open a history window from a keyboard shortcut or the menu bar, find past entries by typing, and copy or paste selected items back into your workflow. Maccy also supports pinning important items, clearing history, and pasting without formatting when needed. The app is open source and focuses on a simple, keyboard-first experience for everyday work on Mac. Maccy is published by Alexey Rodionov and runs on modern versions of macOS.
Key features
- Open clipboard history from a keyboard shortcut or the menu bar
- Search past copied items by typing to quickly find what you need
- Copy a previous clipboard item back to the clipboard for reuse
- Paste a selected history item directly into the current app
- Pin important clipboard entries so they stay easy to reach
- Clear clipboard history, including separate handling for pinned items
- Paste plain text without formatting when needed
- Temporarily ignore new copied items during sensitive workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Maccy is a well-known clipboard manager for macOS, and its need to read clipboard contents is consistent with its purpose. Because clipboard managers can capture anything you copy, including passwords, tokens, personal messages, and confidential text, you should use it only if you are comfortable storing clipboard history on your Mac. If you enable automatic pasting or accessibility-related features, review those permissions in System Settings and keep the app updated. If you handle sensitive data often, use its ignore options or clear history regularly.
Recommendation: Keep Maccy if you actively use clipboard history in your daily work, writing, coding, or research workflows. If you do not use a clipboard manager or you prefer not to retain copied content on your Mac, removing it will only take away its clipboard-history features and should not affect normal macOS clipboard behavior.
Common paths
/Applications/Maccy.app~/Applications/Maccy.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/org.p0deje.Maccy
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Maccy
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/org.p0deje.Maccy.plist
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