# Maccy

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/maccy/

7 people recommended Maccy in Hacker News comments and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 12 months, in 6 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Free clipboard history app for macOS that people rely on daily and install early. One critic reports recent versions are slow and fail to delete old entries.

Summary written by Claude from 8 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Reliable and works without problems (2 comments in the sample): "my third-party app, Maccy, has no problem at all" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225060)) "It's a nifty little app, does its job well." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512880))
- Essential daily productivity tool (2 comments in the sample): "AltTab and Maccy are the 2 apps I can’t live without on macOS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47481619)) "It is single most valuable productivity hack." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012359))
- Happy with it long term (2 comments in the sample): "I've been very happy with it, and wish I'd installed it years earlier than I did." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552528)) "I've definitely been using it (you're right, it's great!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523376))
- Often installed first on Mac (1 comment in the sample): "It's really good and one of the first things I install on Mac." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45874081))

## What people recommend instead

- [Ditto clipboard manager](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ditto/): 8 recommend, 0 mixed, 0 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Maccy", https://hackerapproved.com/p/maccy/ (7 recommend, 0 mixed, 1 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.