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p0deje/Maccy
Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS
Maccy is a free, open-source clipboard history manager for macOS that lives in the menu bar and lets you search and recall previous clipboard entries via keyboard. It's for macOS users who want something like Alfred's clipboard history without paying for Alfred, or who want a dedicated tool with no fluff. Requires macOS Sonoma 14+.
- Genuinely lightweight — no Electron, no subscriptions, native SwiftUI with CoreData storage. The 500ms polling approach is simple and the configurable interval is a nice escape hatch for power users.
- Password manager integration is handled correctly: it respects NSPasteboard transient/concealed types out of the box, so 1Password and KeeWeb entries don't leak into history without any user configuration.
- AppIntents support means you can wire clipboard operations into Shortcuts automations — clear history, get items, select items — which is rare for tools this small.
- Localization is thorough and community-maintained via Weblate, covering 30+ languages including RTL (Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi). Most comparable open-source tools skip this entirely.
- Requires Accessibility permission for auto-paste, which is a hard blocker in some enterprise MDM environments — no fallback or graceful degradation, you just don't get paste-on-select.
- The keyboard shortcut in password fields issue (Option+key producing a Unicode character that macOS blocks) is a real usability trap, and the fix requires installing Karabiner-Elements — a heavyweight dependency for what should be a first-class problem.
- History search is fuzzy/substring only; there's no way to filter by content type (show me only images, or only URLs). For users with large histories, this gets noisy fast.
- Pinned items get a 'random but permanent' keyboard shortcut — this is genuinely confusing UX and not configurable. If you pin more than ~9 items the shortcut system breaks down.