Your clipboard, but with a memory.
A native macOS clipboard manager. Lives in the menu bar. Opens with ⌘` - pastes with Enter.
macOS 14 Sonoma or newer · Free · Open source (MIT)
Four ideas that make a history worth keeping.
Tabs, folders, comments and link previews - the difference between a pile of old clips and something you can actually find your way around.
Every type, already sorted.
The moment something lands on the clipboard, MaCopy reads what it is - a link, a colour, a snippet of code, an image, plain text - and drops it into the right tab. Favorites and Folders sit alongside for the things you keep.
- Nothing to tag or file - detection runs the instant you copy.
- Hunting for that one hex code? The Colors tab is already just colors.
- ← → flicks between tabs without lifting a hand off the keyboard.
Collections that cut across types.
Tabs sort by what a clip is. Folders sort by what it's for. Gather the link, the screenshot and the snippet for one project into a single folder - even though each lives in a different tab.
- One clip can live in many folders at once - no copies, no clutter.
- Create a folder and drop the clip in, all from a single ⌘L sheet.
- Folders open in a three-pane view: folders, their clips, a live preview.
Leave yourself a note.
A bare hex value or an API token tells you nothing in a week. Attach a comment and the clip gets a name in your own words - one that search can find even when the content itself is gibberish.
- Give a cryptic token or hex value a name you'll actually recognise.
- Comments are searchable - find a clip by the note, not just its text.
- Saves itself as you type. ⌘W jumps straight to the note field.
A link that looks like the page.
A URL on its own is just a string. MaCopy fetches the page's title, description, image and favicon, so you recognise a link at a glance - and the Links tab groups your history by the site it came from.
- Title, description, image and favicon - pulled via OpenGraph.
- The Links tab folds your history by site, newest and busiest first.
- Previews are fetched over HTTPS only; private addresses are blocked.
Thoughtful where it counts.
The details you only notice when they're missing - reading, searching, guarding and cleaning up after itself.
On-device OCR
Apple's Vision framework reads English and Russian text inside screenshots. Search finds words that only ever existed as pixels.
Fuzzy search
One field filters across content, OCR text, your comments and link titles - even the app a clip came from. As you type.
Smart type detection
URLs, colors, code, images and plain text are recognized the instant you copy. That's the engine behind every tab.
Private-data filter
Honors org.nspasteboard.ConcealedType, so passwords from 1Password and Bitwarden never reach the history.
Secret detection
API keys, tokens and JWTs are caught by pattern and entropy, and kept out of your history automatically.
Encrypted on disk
History and images are stored with AES. The key lives in your Keychain and is unlocked only on this Mac.
Doesn't steal focus
A non-activating panel. The caret stays in your original field, so ⌘V lands exactly where you were typing.
Quick Look
Tap Space on any image to see it full-size, straight from the panel. No app switch, no detour.
Tidies itself
Recent clips stay; the oldest items and stale link previews are pruned automatically. The history never balloons.
Built for hands that never leave the keyboard.
Open, search, paste - the whole loop happens before your fingers reach the trackpad.
Three keys. That's the whole workflow.
Press ⌘` to open
The panel floats above your work without taking focus from the app underneath.
Type to search
Fuzzy matching narrows the history instantly - including text recognized inside screenshots.
Hit Enter
It pastes straight into the app you came from. The caret never moved.
Everything stays on your Mac.
No accounts, no telemetry, no cloud sync. OCR runs on-device through Apple's Vision framework. The history is a local SQLite file - and the source code is on GitHub.
Install in a minute, or build it yourself.
Direct download
Grab the signed .dmg from GitHub Releases, drag it into Applications, and right-click → Open on first launch.
Download .dmgFrom source
Swift 6 toolchain (Xcode 16+). One script builds, bundles and signs the app.
git clone https://github.com/ilkome/macopy
cd macopy
./build-app.shUpdates
Automatic through Sparkle. MaCopy checks the appcast, verifies the EdDSA signature and updates itself - or trigger it from the menu bar.
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