Maccy+ is a fork of Maccy — 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.

Maccy+ adds power-user enhancements on top of the original:

• Multi-select enabled by default — select multiple history items at once using SHIFT (⇧) + ↑/↓ or COMMAND (⌘) + click
• Unlimited history — set history size to 0 in Preferences to keep an unlimited number of entries

Maccy+ works on macOS Sonoma 14 or higher.

• Features
• Install
• Usage
• Maccy+ Enhancements
  • Multi-Select
  • Unlimited History
• Advanced
  • Ignore Copied Items
  • Ignore Custom Copy Types
  • Speed up Clipboard Check Interval
• FAQ
  • Why doesn't it paste when I select an item in history?
  • When assigning a hotkey to open Maccy+, it says that this hotkey is already used in some system setting.
  • How to restore hidden footer?
  • How to ignore copies from Universal Clipboard?
  • My keyboard shortcut stopped working in password fields. How do I fix this?
• Translations
• License

• Lightweight and fast
• Keyboard-first
• Secure and private
• Native UI
• Multi-select support (enabled by default)
• Unlimited clipboard history

Download the latest version from the releases page.

1. SHIFT (⇧) + COMMAND (⌘) + 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 choose the history item and paste without formatting, press OPTION (⌥) + SHIFT (⇧) + ENTER, or OPTION (⌥) + SHIFT (⇧) + CLICK the item, or use OPTION (⌥) + SHIFT (⇧) + n shortcut.
6. To delete the history item, press OPTION (⌥) + DELETE (⌫).
7. To see the full text of the history item, wait a couple of seconds for tooltip.
8. 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.
9. To clear all unpinned items, select Clear in the menu, or press OPTION (⌥) + COMMAND (⌘) + DELETE (⌫). To clear all items including pinned, select Clear in the menu with OPTION (⌥) pressed, or press SHIFT (⇧) + OPTION (⌥) + COMMAND (⌘) + DELETE (⌫).
10. To disable Maccy+ and ignore new copies, click on the menu icon with OPTION (⌥) pressed.
11. To ignore only the next copy, click on the menu icon with OPTION (⌥) + SHIFT (⇧) pressed.
12. To customize the behavior, check "Preferences…" window, or press COMMAND (⌘) + ,.

Multi-select is enabled by default in Maccy+. You can select multiple clipboard history items and paste them all at once:

• Range select: Hold SHIFT (⇧) and press ↑ / ↓ to extend the selection
• Individual select: Hold COMMAND (⌘) and click items to toggle them in/out of the selection
• Press ENTER or OPTION (⌥) + ENTER to copy/paste all selected items

By default Maccy+ keeps a limited number of history entries. To store an unlimited number of items:

1. Open Preferences (COMMAND (⌘) + ,).
2. Go to the General tab.
3. Set the Size field to 0.

With size set to 0, Maccy+ will never automatically remove old entries.

You can tell Maccy+ to ignore all copied items:

defaults write com.hawe.MaccyPlus 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.

You can also click the menu icon with OPTION (⌥) pressed. To ignore only the next copy, click with OPTION (⌥) + SHIFT (⇧) pressed.

By default Maccy+ will ignore certain copy types that are considered to be confidential or temporary. The default list always includes 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
• net.antelle.keeweb

You can add additional custom types using settings. To find what custom types are used by an application, you can use free application Pasteboard-Viewer.

By default, Maccy+ checks clipboard every 500 ms. To change it:

defaults write com.hawe.MaccyPlus clipboardCheckInterval 0.1 # 100 ms

1. Make sure you have "Paste automatically" enabled in Preferences.
2. Make sure "Maccy+" is added to System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Accessibility.

1. Open System settings -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.
2. Find where that hotkey is used. For example, "Convert text to simplified Chinese" is under Services -> Text.
3. Disable that hotkey or remove assigned combination.
4. Restart Maccy+.
5. Assign hotkey in Maccy+ settings.

1. Open Maccy+ window.
2. Press COMMAND (⌘) + , to open preferences.
3. Enable footer in Appearance section.

If for some reason it doesn't work, run the following command in Terminal.app:

defaults write com.hawe.MaccyPlus showFooter 1

1. Open Preferences -> Ignore -> Pasteboard Types.
2. Add com.apple.is-remote-clipboard.

If your shortcut produces a character (like Option+C → "ç"), macOS security may block it in password fields. Use Karabiner-Elements to remap your shortcut to a different combination like Cmd+Shift+C.

Maccy+ inherits translations from the upstream Maccy project, hosted on Weblate.

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