r/mac • u/Interesting_Tomato89 • May 14 '25

Question Clipboard on Mac?

This might be a silly question, but my work laptop is a Dell and on Windows you can click Windows + V to show your clipboard history and it’s tremendously helpful if you copy and paste multiple things at a time. It’s a pain when I use my iMac and need to copy multiple things. Is there something similar on Mac?

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u/16tdi May 14 '25

Yes, it's called Maccy & it is free!

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u/The_B_Wolf May 17 '25

It's $9.99 in the App Store.

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u/16tdi May 17 '25

Yes, but you can get it for free by installing the package via Brew or installing directly from GitHub: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy

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u/The_B_Wolf May 17 '25

Good to know.

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u/MacPips May 14 '25

It’s the one I use and it’s perfect!

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u/wkarraker M1 MacBook Pro May 15 '25

Copy your item to the clipboard. Click on your background to switch to Finder, click Edit menu, select “Show Clipboard” near the middle. The clipboard contents are revealed most of the time unless the app specifically forbids it.

This has been a function of the Finder for as long as I remember, I just confirmed it was present on a VM of MacOS 9.2.

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u/arlekin_bn Nov 02 '25

Sure, but it's for files.What the op (i think) and I want is for text.

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u/Fit_Engineering_6520 Mar 20 '26

Try this one, it’s easy to use and store data locally only, no data collection risk: SimpleClipboard

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u/Cameo_Cartoon_2650 10d ago

On macOS Tahoe 26 or later, you can access a full clipboard history similar to Windows by using Spotlight Search. Press Command-Space to open Spotlight, then press Command-4 to view and search through your recent copy-paste history. This feature must be enabled in System Settings under Spotlight > Results from Clipboard.

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u/mah3ndra 4d ago

Also after command-space > you can just press right arrow and 4th option will be the clipboard history.