Maccy vs EasyPaste: Which Mac Clipboard Manager Should You Use?

Disclosure: we make EasyPaste. Maccy is a genuinely good app, and for many people it's the right choice. We'll say when. Maccy details are from maccy.app, checked in September 2026.

The short version

Maccy and EasyPaste solve the same problem, that the Mac clipboard only remembers one thing, but with different philosophies. Maccy sets out to "do only one job" and do it fast: a keyboard-driven list of what you copied. EasyPaste treats your clipboard as a library of everything you copy, especially screenshots and images, and builds tools around finding and reusing it.

Side by side

Where Maccy is the better choice

• You don't want to pay. Maccy is free and very good at its job.
• You value open source. You can read Maccy's code on GitHub and build it yourself.
• You mostly copy text and live on the keyboard. Maccy's small, fast list is hard to beat.
• You're on an Intel Mac. EasyPaste currently requires Apple silicon.

Where EasyPaste is the better choice

• You take a lot of screenshots. EasyPaste gathers them from your screenshot folder automatically, without you copying them, and makes the text in them searchable, so the screenshot of an error, receipt or slide turns up when you search for a word in it.
• You copy visual things: images, colours, icons, files. They show as previews, not file names.
• You reuse the same content such as replies, addresses and templates, and want it pinned, organised into categories, or expanding from a short trigger as you type.
• You like dragging. The notch shelf lets you drag a clip straight into any app without opening a window.

Privacy in both

Both apps keep your history on your own Mac and neither syncs it anywhere. Both ignore items that password managers mark as concealed. EasyPaste adds pattern checks for things that are dangerous to keep around even when they're not from a password manager: API keys from common providers, PEM private keys, and card numbers that pass a checksum. Skipped items are never written to disk. EasyPaste also makes no network requests at all; its text recognition runs on your Mac.

Can you try both?

Yes. Install Maccy first, since it's free. If after a week you find yourself wishing your screenshots landed in history without copying them, search the text inside your screenshots or see your clips visually, EasyPaste is built for exactly that. Run only one clipboard manager at a time, since two would both record every copy and may compete for the same shortcuts.

Other options

If neither fits (for example, you need your clipboard on your iPhone too), see the best clipboard managers for Mac, which also covers Paste, Raycast and the clipboard history built into Spotlight.