Maccy alternative
Maccy alternative for users who've outgrown a simple history list
ClipBook is a powerful Maccy alternative with unlimited history, tags and 78 text transformations, built for power Mac users who copy and paste a lot.
ClipBook is an incredible app with an incredible UI and I hope to use it a lot more.
Tad Jimenez
Thanks for making ClipBook! It really is amazing -- both the product and the website.
Yuvraj Sarda
I've been using your app and to be honest, it's great! Thank you very much.
Mauricio
Two philosophies
Built for different people
Both apps are keyboard-first, open source and keep your clipboard history on your Mac. They differ in how much history they keep and how much you can do with it.
ClipBook is about power
Made for advanced users who copy and paste a lot and want to organize, edit and reuse what they copy.
- Unlimited history you can keep for years
- Tags, favorites and custom item names
- Filters by content type, tag and favorites
- Multi-select and multi-paste with a separator
- Sequential pasting without showing any windows
- Copy & merge, merge items, split text items
- 78 text transformations
- Customize 26+ keyboard shortcuts
- Edit, rename and preview any item
Maccy is about simplicity
Made for users who want a lightweight, searchable list of recent copies and nothing more.
- Minimal menu-style list
- Up to 999 items in history
- Pin items to keep them in the list
- One item at a time, no multi-paste
- Paste with or without formatting
- Customize 4 keyboard shortcuts
- Free and open source
- Items in history
- Unlimited vs 999
- ClipBook keeps everything you copy. Maccy stores up to 999 items, 200 by default.
- Features shipped in a year
- 35 vs 6
- ClipBook shipped almost 6x more new features than Maccy over the last 12 months
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- 26 vs 4
- Every action keyboard shortcut can be customized to meet your workflow
Side by side
ClipBook vs Maccy
Prices, privacy, platforms and features, as of October 2026.
| Feature | ClipBook | Maccy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ||
| Lifetime license | $9.99 | Free · $9.99 |
| Try for free | 5-day trial | Free version |
| Lifetime updates | Yes | Yes |
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days | App Store rules |
| Privacy | ||
| Where your history lives | Locally | Locally |
| Ignore apps & sensitive content | Yes | Yes |
| Ignore specific content | Yes | Yes |
| Clear history on quit | Yes | Yes |
| Clear history on Mac restart | Yes | No |
| Hide passwords & secrets | Yes | No |
| Hide during screen sharing | Yes | No |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Platforms | ||
| Mac | macOS 13+ | macOS 14+ |
| Mac App Store | No | Yes |
| Homebrew | Yes | Yes |
| iPhone and iPad | No | No |
| iCloud Sync | No | No |
| Features | ||
| History size | Unlimited | 999 items |
| Search text inside images (OCR) | Yes | Yes |
| Fuzzy & regex search | No | Yes |
| Filter by type, tag and favorites | Yes | No |
| Pause and resume | Yes | Yes |
| Preview | Yes | Yes |
| Pin items | Yes | Yes |
| Tags | Yes | No |
| Custom item name | Yes | No |
| Edit item content | Yes | Pinned only |
| Paste without formatting | Yes | Yes |
| Text transformations | Yes | No |
| Sequential paste | Yes | No |
| Multi-paste | Yes | No |
| Multi-paste with a separator | Yes | No |
| Paste and delete | Yes | No |
| Copy and merge | Yes | No |
| Merge text items | Yes | No |
| Split a text item | Yes | No |
| Copy text from image | Yes | Yes |
| Copy text from QR code | Yes | No |
| Open window at mouse cursor | Yes | Yes |
| Open window at text caret | Yes | No |
| Open window at last location | Yes | Yes |
| History retention for item types | Yes | No |
| Import & Export | Yes | No |
Based on maccy.app, the Maccy GitHub repository (version 2.7.1) and the Mac App Store listing as of October 2026. Prices in USD before tax. Maccy is free to download from GitHub and Homebrew and costs $9.99 on the Mac App Store. Maccy belongs to its owner. ClipBook is not affiliated with it. Spotted something outdated? Let us know.
Where ClipBook goes further
Built for people who paste a lot of text
Maccy focuses on a short, simple history you can search. ClipBook keeps everything and gives you tools to work with it.
Transform text as you paste
Maccy can paste without formatting. ClipBook can also change case, trim whitespace, remove line breaks and apply 78 transformations without leaving the keyboard.
How it works →
Copy and merge
Copy several snippets one after another and ClipBook joins them into a single item, so you paste once instead of five times.
How it works →
Paste many items, your way
Select several items and paste them together, separated by a new line, a comma, a tab or anything you choose. Maccy pastes one item at a time.
How it works →
Split one item into many
Copied a whole list at once? Split it into separate items, one per line, then paste them one by one.
How it works →
Honest take
Where Maccy is better
ClipBook is not the right pick for everyone. Maccy is a great app that does a few things ClipBook does not.
It's free
Maccy is free to download from GitHub and Homebrew, and $9.99 on the Mac App Store. ClipBook costs $9.99 after a 5-day trial.
Small and simple
Maccy is a tiny native app that deliberately does one job. If a searchable list of recent copies is all you need, it is enough.
Fuzzy & regex search
Maccy can match your query exactly, fuzzily or as a regular expression. ClipBook uses plain text search with filters.
Privacy
No cloud, no account, no analytics
On privacy the two apps agree. Like Maccy, ClipBook writes your clipboard history only to your Mac and never sends it anywhere. There is no sync, no account and nothing to sign up for.
ClipBook has no built-in analytics and no tracking, and the source code of both apps is public so you can check for yourself.
What does ClipBook add on top?
ClipBook shows passwords, API keys and tokens as dots in the history until you choose to reveal them, keeps its window out of screen sharing and recordings, and can clear the history every time you quit the app or restart your Mac. Both apps can skip what password managers copy and let you ignore specific apps.
Pricing
One price.
Lifetime access.
One-time payment. No subscription.
Get lifetime access to ClipBook on your Mac.
- One-time payment
- 14-day money-back guarantee
- Lifetime updates included
- Lifetime support & assistance
- Native macOS app
- 1 Mac device license
Secure checkout by Paddle. Taxes may apply.
FAQ
Yes, if you have outgrown a simple history list. ClipBook keeps unlimited history and adds tools Maccy doesn't have, such as tags, custom item names, multi-paste with separators, sequential paste, merging, splitting and text transformations. It is a one-time purchase of $9.99 with lifetime updates. If you only need a free, minimal list of recent copies, Maccy is the better fit.
As of October 2026, Maccy is free to download from GitHub and Homebrew and costs $9.99 on the Mac App Store. ClipBook costs $9.99 once for one Mac, $14.99 for two Macs and $29.99 for five Macs, with all future updates included. What you pay for is unlimited history, organization with tags and favorites, and the text tools: multi-paste, sequential paste, copy and merge, split and 78 transformations. You can try everything free for 5 days.
Maccy keeps 200 items by default and up to 999 items at most. ClipBook has no limit on the number of items. If you prefer a shorter history, you can set how long ClipBook keeps items of each type.
Yes. The source code of both apps is public on GitHub. See how to access the ClipBook source code. ClipBook is a paid app: you buy a license to use it after the trial, and the code is open so you can verify what it does with your clipboard.
Not directly. ClipBook can't read Maccy's database. The practical approach is to copy the items you rely on, such as your pinned items, once while ClipBook is running and add them to favorites. ClipBook captures everything you copy from the moment you launch it.
No. Both are Mac-only apps that store your clipboard history locally. Neither has iCloud sync or an iPhone or iPad app. For ClipBook this is a deliberate privacy decision: your clipboard never leaves your Mac.
Yes. ClipBook can be installed via Homebrew with brew install --cask clipbook, or downloaded as a DMG from this site. ClipBook is not on the Mac App Store.
ClipBook supports macOS 13 Ventura and later on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. Maccy currently requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.
No. ClipBook is a one-time purchase. You pay once, get a license key and receive every future update for free. There is also a 14-day money-back guarantee. See the pricing page for the one, two and five-Mac licenses.
Every feature is unlocked for 5 days from the first launch. There is no credit card, no account and no sign-up. When the trial ends, your history stays on your Mac and is available again as soon as you activate a license.
With love
Get it. Try it. Buy it if you like it.
I hope you enjoy using ClipBook and it saves you a few hours each week. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact me.
Founder of ClipBook
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Never lose what you copy
Keep your copy history, organize it, quickly find what you need and paste it directly to the active app.
Keyboard-first · Native app · One-time purchase · Lifetime updates