Clips you keep on purpose
Named Keepers turn the replies and snippets you reuse into a working library that history cleanup never touches.
Switching from Maccy
A Maccy alternative for people who outgrew the history list.
Maccy is a good piece of software. It is free, open source, local, and does one job. People come looking for an alternative when that one job stops being enough — when the clipboard becomes something you work with, not just something you look back at.
Download for macOSUniversal · Apple Silicon and Intel · 6.1 MB · macOS 14.0 or later · Signed and notarized by Apple.
Built in GermanyLocal-first · No account · One-time purchase
Why people go looking
The moments Maccy stops being enough.
If none of these describe your day, Maccy is doing its job and you can stop reading here.
- You keep re-typing the same reply, signature, or snippet because history has no place to keep it.
- You fill the same form fields in order and paste them one at a time, reopening the list between each.
- You paste a link and then delete the tracking parameters by hand.
- History has grown and you have no idea what it is costing your Mac.
What stays the same
A small move, not a migration.
- Local-only storage. Nothing is uploaded, and there is still no account to create.
- A keyboard-first launcher you summon and dismiss without touching the mouse.
- A small, native Mac utility rather than a suite you have to adopt.
What actually changes
A queue instead of a round trip
Load a Paste Stack once, then deliver each item in order with one shortcut. Forms stop being a loop.
Change the paste, not the original
Strip tracking parameters, reformat, or run Safe Paste redaction review at the moment you paste. The stored clip is untouched.
Limits you can see
Item, age, and image-storage limits are explicit, and the app shows its live footprint — items, database, images, memory — inside Settings.
What you actually get
The whole clipboard, not just the history.
Every clipboard manager can bring back what you copied. The rows below are what happens after that, and where the products stop being interchangeable.
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| Capability | Clip 4 Breakfast | Maccy | Paste | PastePal | Raycast | Spotlight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keyboard-first recall | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Named reusable clips | Keepers | Not advertised | Pinboards | Collections | Snippets | Not advertised |
| Sequential paste queuePaste and PastePal ship one too. This is not a reason to switch. | Paste Stack | Not advertised | Paste Stack | Paste Stack | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Change one paste, keep the original | Paste As | Not advertised | Formatting choice | Transform tools | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Redaction review before pasting | Safe Paste | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Bundle many clips for an AI tool | Context Packs | Not advertised | MCP server | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Live footprint meter inside the app | Included | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Retention and storage limits you set | Explicit and visible | Item count | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised | Not advertised |
| Clipboard data stays on this Mac | Included | Included | iCloud sync | iCloud sync | Cloud account | Included |
| Price | $9.99 once | Free | Subscription | $14.99 once | $8 per month for Pro | Free |
Highlighted rows are where Clip 4 Breakfast is alone.A dash means the vendor does not advertise that capability as of 14 August 2026, not that it is impossible.
The honest counter-case
Stay with Maccy if…
- You want free and open source above everything else. Maccy is both; Clip 4 Breakfast is neither.
- You genuinely only need the last few things you copied, and a plain list is the right amount of product.
- You prefer to read and build the source yourself.
A focused keyboard-first history tool with local storage and a deliberately small scope. Full head-to-head with sources: Clip 4 Breakfast vs Maccy. Reviewed 14 August 2026.
Try it before you decide
Free to download. Free to keep using.
The essentials stay free forever: your 40 most recent clips, private recall, paste-back, pause, and exclusions. Pro is one purchase when the workflow earns it.
Download for macOSUniversal · Apple Silicon and Intel · 6.1 MB · macOS 14.0 or later · Signed and notarized by Apple.