vs M Maclip vs Maccy
Maccy is a lightweight open-source clipboard manager with a minimalist menu: search, pins, image previews and text-in-image search. A great pick if all you need is history.
Where Maccy shines
- Open source (MIT)
- Very simple, lightweight menu UI
- Mature and actively maintained
Why people pick Maclip
- Notch shelf with drag & drop
- Paste stack, template snippets, 24 transforms
- Encrypted history and secret detection with auto-delete
- Auto-capture of selected text
- End-to-end encrypted sync between Macs
Feature by feature
| Feature | Maclip | Maccy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free on GitHub · $9.99 on the App Store |
| Text, images, files | Yes + RTF, colors, code | Yes |
| History search | Yes Including OCR and app names | Yes |
| Text-in-image search (OCR) | Yes On-device (Vision) | Yes |
| Pinned items | Yes | Yes |
| Paste stack / sequential paste | Yes + collect copies into a stack | Not stated |
| Snippets with templates | Yes {date}, {clipboard}, {cursor}… | Not stated |
| Text transformations | Yes 24 transforms | Partly Paste without formatting |
| Notch shelf with drag & drop | Yes Shelf + “Copied” animation | Not stated |
| Auto-capture of selected text | Yes 3 modes | Not stated |
| Secret detection & auto-delete | Yes API keys, tokens, cards, OTPs | Not stated |
| Ignores password managers | Yes nspasteboard.org | Yes |
| Per-app exclusions | Yes 4 rules per app | Yes |
| Encrypted history at rest | Yes AES-256-GCM | Not stated |
| Sync between Macs | Yes iCloud Drive | No Local only |
| End-to-end encrypted sync | Yes PBKDF2 + AES-256-GCM | No |
| Hidden from screen sharing | Yes | Not stated |
| Tracking-parameter removal | Yes ~70 parameters | Not stated |
| Open source | No Not yet | Yes MIT |
| macOS version | 14 Sonoma+ | 14+ |
Maccy data checked on November 13, 2026 using official sources: maccy.app, github.com, apps.apple.com. “Not stated” means the vendor doesn’t publicly mention the feature.
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