Maccy
Clipboard manager in Productivity & writing
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.
7 people recommended Maccy in Hacker News comments and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026.
Summary written by Claude from 8 comments.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- mixed feelings
- 0
- warn against or regret it
- 1
The record
Recommended in 3 of 12 months
In 6 different threads.
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 12 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
- Recommended in 6 threadsNeeds 5 or more, met.
- The biggest thread supplies 29% of its recommendersNeeds half or less, met.
The same rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. Mixed feelings count toward neither side. How the badge works
What people say about it
Reasons grouped from a sample of 8 of the 8 opinions about it, picked in proportion to how many people recommend it, have mixed feelings and criticize it. Each mark is one comment in the sample. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Reliable and works without problems
“my third-party app, Maccy, has no problem at all”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Welcome (back) to Macintosh” “It's a nifty little app, does its job well.”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “So where are all the AI apps?” Essential daily productivity tool
“AltTab and Maccy are the 2 apps I can’t live without on macOS”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “HopTab–free,open source macOS app switcher and tiler that replaces Cmd+Tab” “It is single most valuable productivity hack.”
Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere” Happy with it long term
“I've been very happy with it, and wish I'd installed it years earlier than I did.”
Comment from 28 Mar 2026 in “People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account” “I've definitely been using it (you're right, it's great!”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “So where are all the AI apps?” Often installed first on Mac
“It's really good and one of the first things I install on Mac.”
Comment from 10 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ditto clipboard manager | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| MaccyThis page | 7 | 0 | 1 | 88% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 8 opinions about it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“last versions are kinda slow and it has a bug where it doesn't correctly delete old entries”
“It is single most valuable productivity hack.”
“I've been very happy with it, and wish I'd installed it years earlier than I did.”
“I've definitely been using it (you're right, it's great!”
“It's a nifty little app, does its job well.”
“AltTab and Maccy are the 2 apps I can’t live without on macOS”
“my third-party app, Maccy, has no problem at all”
“It's really good and one of the first things I install on Mac.”
Counts come from 1,791,911 Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.