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Who it’s for
Someone who copies and pastes all day on a Mac.
On the desktop · live
It remembers what you copied, and forgets the keys.
For someone who copies and pastes all day on a Mac. They lost the previous copy, fixed pasted formatting by hand, and left copied secrets sitting in their history. Clippy is Maccy’s clipboard history with a few things I added on top.
Mac menu-bar appmacOS 14 or newerLiveOpen source (MIT)A fork of Maccy
Things to copyselect text and press ⌘C, or use Copy
NoteClipboard: empty
↑↓ select · Enter pastes · ⌥P pin
⌥⌫ delete · right-click: Paste As
⌥⌫ delete · right-click: Paste As
Sample snippets and a fake key, made up for this page. A browser simulation, not the real app. The Copy buttons don’t touch your real clipboard.The popup, search, pins and keyboard flow are Maccy’s; Paste As, type: filters, the searchable capture and the expiring key are added in Clippy. Here the key expires in 20 seconds instead of two minutes.
What it’s for
Who it’s for, and what I added.
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By hand, until now
They lost the previous copy, fixed pasted formatting by hand, and left copied secrets sitting in their history.
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What I built
A searchable clipboard history built on Maccy, with added paste-as options (lowercase, trimmed, or tracking codes removed, for example), type: search filters, and screen captures you can search by the text inside them. Copied keys and tokens are wiped from history and the clipboard after two minutes.
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Where it is
Live and public (MIT) for macOS 14 or newer. There’s no ready-made download yet; you build it from source in Xcode.
Rough edges
What’s missing, said plainly.
- No downloadNo binary release yet.
- Newest Macs onlyThe on-device Summarize and Explain Code actions need macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence.
Built on Maccy. Clippy is a fork of Maccy by Alexey Rodionov, released under the MIT licence. The clipboard manager itself is his work: the history, the popup, search, pins and the keyboard flow. Mine are the additions described on this page.
Honest line: everything above runs in this page with made-up snippets. The real Clippy watches the Mac clipboard on your device; it has no network calls, analytics or accounts.