Maccy

Every developer has the same experience at some point: you copy something, then copy something else, and the first thing is gone forever. macOS has a clipboard that holds exactly one item. One. In 2026, when you're juggling API keys, SQL queries, terminal commands, JSON snippets, and Slack messages across a dozen windows, a single-item clipboard is a genuine productivity bottleneck. Maccy fixes this with a dead-simple approach: it watches your clipboard and keeps a history of everything you copy. Press Shift+Command+C (or whatever shortcut you set), and a small popup appears near your cursor with your recent copies. Start typing to filter. Hit Enter to paste. That's the entire interaction model. No sidebar, no floating window, no subscription, no account. Built by developer Alex Pavlov and released under the MIT license, Maccy is a native macOS app written in Swift that lives in your menu bar. It stores clipboard history locally—nothing touches a server, nothing syncs to a cloud, nothing gets analyzed. The app uses maybe 30MB of RAM and zero percent CPU when idle. It supports text, images, file references, and rich text with formatting. What makes Maccy stand apart from paid alternatives like Paste ($3.99/mo) or CleanClip is its philosophy: a clipboard manager should be invisible until you need it, fast when you use it, and gone when you're done. No tutorials, no onboarding flow, no AI features. You install it, set your shortcut, and forget it exists until you need that UUID you copied three hours ago.