Your Mac forgets what you copied the moment you copy something else. Maccy remembers. It keeps a history of everything you copy, and pressing Shift + Command + C opens a small menu where you type a few letters to find an old item and press Enter to use it again. It lives in the menu bar and is built to be fast and light.
It is a native Mac app and is meant to be driven from the keyboard. You can pin items you use often to the top of the list, pause it or skip just the next copy, ignore certain kinds of copied content, and speed up how often it checks the clipboard. The README includes fixes for the common questions, such as why an item does not paste automatically and how to ignore copies coming from your iPhone through Universal Clipboard.
Maccy is MIT-licensed, with about 22,000 stars and 95 contributors, and version 2.8.0 came out on 26 October 2026. It needs macOS Sonoma (14) or later.
- Repository: github.com/p0deje/Maccy
- Licence: MIT (MIT License)
- Language: Swift. Stars: 22.3K. Forks: 1,280. Last push: Oct 26, 2026.
- Scan: safe, Nov 10, 2026, commit f0b571e
Who it is for
Writers, developers, students and anyone who copies and pastes a lot on a Mac and has lost something they copied a minute ago.
Getting started
1. Download the latest release
https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/releases/latest2. Or install it with Homebrew
brew install maccy3. Open your clipboard history
Shift + Command + CThe README warns that fake sites such as maccyapp.net and maccyapp.com spread malware dressed as Maccy. Download only from maccy.app, the GitHub releases page or Homebrew.
Safety scan
We cloned p0deje/Maccy at commit f0b571e on Nov 10, 2026 and ran the checks described on the GitHub Tools page: credential patterns, decode-and-execute code, install-time scripts, committed binaries, risky CI workflows, every host the code talks to, known vulnerabilities in pinned dependencies, and project hygiene. A person read every hit. This is what we found.
- No secret hits, no pattern hits, no install hooks and no committed binaries in about 12,800 lines of code, mostly Swift.
- No lockfile to check against vulnerability databases.
- The only hosts in the code are GitHub, the project's own site, a handful of documentation and credit links, and the Sparkle update feed, which is a file in this same GitHub repository. We found no analytics service.
- A clipboard manager sees everything you copy, including passwords, so where you get it matters. The README's own warning about impostor sites is worth taking seriously: use maccy.app, GitHub or Homebrew.
- No GitHub Actions workflows at all, so there is no CI in the repository, and no security policy or contributing guide. A licence file is present.
What the scanner counted
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Secrets | None found. |
| Suspicious code | None found. |
| Install-time code | None: nothing runs at install beyond the package manager itself. |
| Committed binaries | None. |
| CI workflows | No GitHub Actions workflows. |
| Network hosts | 9 distinct hosts referenced from source; most often github.com, stackoverflow.com, koss.nocorp.me, maccy.app. No URLs to bare IP addresses. |
| Known vulnerabilities | No lockfile to check: dependencies are declared as ranges, so what gets installed is whatever is current on the day. |
| Project hygiene | Has licence file. Missing security policy, automated dependency updates, CodeQL, contributing guide. |
| OpenSSF Scorecard | 4.5 out of 10, as of Oct 26, 2026. |
By the numbers
| Stars | 22.3K |
|---|---|
| Forks | 1,280 |
| Contributors | 95 |
| Commits | 1,150 |
| Open issues | 152 |
| Open pull requests | 71 |
| Releases | 92 |
| Latest release | 2.8.0 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Main language | Swift |
| Project age | 8 years |
| Last push | Oct 26, 2026 |
| Tracked files | 569 |
| Lines of code | 12.8K |
| Checkout size | 56 MB |
Lines by language: Swift 12.1K, JSON 354, Markdown 254, YAML 106, TOML 31.
Questions
Is Maccy free?
Yes. The downloads on GitHub and through Homebrew are free, and the code is open source under the MIT licence.
Does Maccy save passwords I copy?
It keeps whatever lands on the clipboard unless you tell it not to. You can pause it, skip just the next copy, or ignore particular kinds of copied content, as the README explains.
Does it sync clipboard history between Macs?
Not that the README describes. It is a local clipboard history for the Mac it runs on.
This post is part of GitHub Tools, where every repository is cloned and scanned before it is written up. The scan is a snapshot of one commit on one day; the repository has moved on since, so check it before you install.