Maccy

Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.

• Features
• Install
• Usage
• Customization
  • Automatically Start at Login
  • Change Default Settings
    • Popup Hotkey
    • History Size
    • Show/Hide Icon in Status Bar
    • Automatically Paste by Default
    • Enable/Disable Fuzzy Search
    • Ignore Copied Items
    • Show/Hide Search
    • Show/Hide Title
    • Popup Position
    • Sorting
    • Max Image Height
    • Ignore Custom Copy Types
• Update
• Why Yet Another Clipboard Manager
• CI
• License

Features

• Lightweight and fast
• Keyboard-first
• Secure and private
• Native UI
• Open source and free

Install

Download the latest version from the releases page, or use Homebrew:

brew cask install maccy

Usage

1. COMMAND (⌘) + SHIFT (⇧) + C to popup Maccy or click on its icon in the menu bar.
2. Type what you want to find.
3. To select the history item you wish to copy, press ENTER, or click the item, or use COMMAND (⌘) + n shortcut.
4. To choose the history item and paste, press OPTION (⌥) + ENTER, or OPTION (⌥) + CLICK the item, or use OPTION (⌥) + n shortcut.
5. To delete the history item, press OPTION (⌥) + DELETE (⌫).
6. To see the full text of the history item, wait a couple of seconds for tooltip.
7. To pin the history item so that it remains on top of the list, press OPTION (⌥) + P. The item will be moved to the top with a random but permanent keyboard shortcut. To unpin it, press OPTION (⌥) + P again.
8. To clear all unpineed items, select Clear in the menu. To clear all items including pinned, select Clear in the menu with OPTION (⌥) pressed.

Customization

Automatically Start at Login

Select the "Launch at login" option or add Maccy to your "Login items".

Change Default Settings

To change default settings, use the following commands in Terminal.

Popup Hotkey

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy hotKey control+option+m # default is command+shift+c

History Size

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy historySize 100 # default is 200

Show/Hide Icon in Status Bar

To hide you can simply drag the icon away from the status bar with COMMAND (⌘) pressed. To recover the icon, re-open Maccy while it's already running.

You can also control visibility using configuration:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy showInStatusBar false # default is true

Don't forget to restart Maccy after using defaults command!

Automatically Paste by Default

Select and paste in one go.

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy pasteByDefault true # default is false

Enable/Disable Fuzzy Search

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy fuzzySearch true # default is false

Note that enabling fuzzy search will slow down when searching through the long history items list (200+).

Ignore Copied Items

You can tell Maccy to ignore all copied items:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy ignoreEvents true # default is false

This is useful if you have some workflow for copying sensitive data. You can set ignoreEvents to true, copy the data and set ignoreEvents back to false.

Show/Hide Search

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy hideSearch true # default is false

Show/Hide Title

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy hideTitle true # default is false

Popup Position

By default Maccy will popup at cursor position. You can change it to be always centered on the screen.

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy popupPosition center # default is cursor

You can also change it to popup at location of icon in status bar:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy popupPosition statusItem

Sorting

By default Maccy will sort the history by the date of the last time item was copied.

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy sortBy lastCopiedAt # default

You can change the sorting algorithm so that it sorts by the first time item was copied:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy sortBy firstCopiedAt

You can also change the sorting algorithm so that it sorts by the total number item was copied:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy sortBy numberOfCopies

Max Image Height

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy imageMaxHeight 100 # default is 40

Ignore Custom Copy Types

By default Maccy will ignore certain copy types that are considered to be confidential or temporary. The default list always include the following types:

• org.nspasteboard.TransientType
• org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType
• org.nspasteboard.AutoGeneratedType

Also, default configuration includes the following types but they can be removed or overwritten:

• com.agilebits.onepassword
• com.typeit4me.clipping
• de.petermaurer.TransientPasteboardType
• Pasteboard generator type

You can add additional custom types:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy ignoredPasteboardTypes -array-add "com.myapp.CustomType"

If you accidentally removed default types, you can restore the original configuration:

defaults write org.p0deje.Maccy ignoredPasteboardTypes -array "de.petermaurer.TransientPasteboardType" "com.typeit4me.clipping" "Pasteboard generator type" "com.agilebits.onepassword"

Update

Download and reinstall the latest version from the releases page, or use Homebrew:

brew cask upgrade maccy
open -a Maccy

Why Yet Another Clipboard Manager

There are dozens of similar applications out there, so why build another? Over the past years since I moved from Linux to macOS, I struggled to find a clipboard manager that is as free and simple as Parcellite, but I couldn't. So I've decided to build one.

Also, I wanted to learn Swift and get acquainted with macOS application development.

CI

License

MIT