MaClip app icon

Your clipboard history, one shortcut away.

MaClip keeps what you copy: text, links, images and files. Press ⌃⌘V in any app, pick a clip, and MaClip pastes it.

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Free and open source (MIT) · macOS 12 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

The MaClip clip window: a search field, then clips from Notes, Preview, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit, and a hint bar with the keys.

Features

Everything you copied, in one list.

Text, links, images and files

Each clip shows what it is: the text, the real image, or the file name. A small icon tells which app you copied it from.

Search and filter

Type to search. Filter by app with from:Safari, or by kind with tag:code.

Preview before you paste

Press space to read a long clip in full, or to see an image at its full size.

Edit a clip

Fix a text, a link or a file path before you paste it. The clip keeps its place in the list.

Text and QR codes from images

Copy the text or the QR code in an image clip, with one click or one shortcut.

Made for the keyboard

Open, move, preview and paste without the mouse. Change every shortcut in Settings.

Screenshot to text

Paste the text of a screenshot. Skip the retyping.

Take a screenshot with ⌃⇧⌘4. Then, in any app, press a shortcut. MaClip reads the newest image clip and pastes the result. MaClip does not open.

⌃⌥⌘T
Paste the text in the image
⌃⌥⌘B
Paste the QR code or barcode

⌘V still pastes the image. Text recognition runs on your Mac with the macOS Vision framework.

A MaClip message: No QR code or barcode found in the last image. Nothing was pasted.

When an image has no text or code, a short message tells you. Nothing is pasted.

Image editor

Mark up a screenshot before you send it.

Crop, rotate, and add arrows, boxes, ovals, text and pen lines. Redact private text with a black box. Save over the clip, or save a new one.

The MaClip image editor with a red arrow on a screenshot, the tool bar at the top and a status bar at the bottom.

Privacy

Your clips stay on your Mac.

  • No account and no cloud. MaClip saves the history in a folder on your Mac. It connects to the internet only to check GitHub for a new version.
  • Password managers are skipped. MaClip does not save clips from 1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane and Keychain Access. Add any other app to the list.
  • Concealed clips are hidden. A password that an app marks as concealed shows as dots, and MaClip deletes it after 5 minutes. You can change the time, or not save them at all.
  • Encryption if you want it. Turn on encryption in Settings, and MaClip keeps the key in your login Keychain.
MaClip Settings, General tab: theme, paste on selection, Accessibility access and the clip window options.

Install

Install in about a minute.

Apple has not notarized MaClip, so macOS asks you to allow it one time. These steps are also in the DMG window.

  1. 1Download the DMG from the latest release, open it, and drag MaClip to Applications.
  2. 2Open MaClip. If macOS shows “MaClip.app” Not Opened, click Done.
  3. 3Open System Settings → Privacy & Security. Scroll down to “MaClip.app was blocked”, click Open Anyway, and confirm with your password.

Or, after step 1, run this command in Terminal instead of steps 2 and 3:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MaClip.app

MaClip asks for Accessibility access the first time it pastes for you. It uses the access only to press ⌘V in the app that you used before.

Download for Mac macOS 12 or later · Apple silicon and Intel