The Maccy alternative that formats the paste.
Maccy is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS: lightweight, keyboard-first, built around finding past copies. CopyPasta answers a different problem—the clipboard arrives already shaped for the app you're pasting into.
Where CopyPasta differs
CopyPasta keeps history in memory on your machine and spends its effort on the paste itself. The copied text lands plain in a field that rejects formatting, or arrives as an email-ready draft or AI rewrite on request. Local formatting is free, and Pro adds unlimited AI pastes.
Where Maccy may fit better
Maccy may fit better if all you want is a quick, free, searchable list of past copies—it's hard to beat on price and weight. CopyPasta exists for the formatting problem, not the finding problem.
| Feature | CopyPasta | Maccy |
|---|---|---|
| Clipboard history | † | |
| Structured field mapping | ||
| Text formatted for the receiving app | ||
| Natural-language text transformations | ‡ | |
| Text from images (OCR) | ||
| Spoken instructions while pasting | ||
| iPhone and iPad apps | ||
| macOS app | § | |
| Linux app | ||
| Windows app |
✓ marks a feature listed in the linked official source. The “—” mark means the source doesn't list it. 🚧 marks a CopyPasta feature in development. Sources checked: .
†CopyPasta keeps history only in memory on your machine. It's not persisted to disk or synced across devices.
‡Standard formatting runs on your machine. AI rewrites send copied text, your instruction, and relevant context to CopyPasta and AI providers. Privacy and trust
§CopyPasta ships cross-platform natively, not through Electron. Native packaging keeps the installer small at , idle CPU at 0.1%, and physical memory at 24 MiB. The latter two metrics are medians from five 60-second idle Activity Monitor samples on a MacBook Neo with Apple A18 Pro running macOS 27.0.