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Plain Clip vs Maccy

Side-by-side comparison for macOS

Plain Clip

7.0
Utilities

Removes formatting from copied text

Maccy

8.0
Productivity

Clipboard manager

Metric Plain Clip Maccy
Category Utilities Productivity
AI Score 7.0 8.0
30-day Installs - 10.0K
90-day Installs - 28.5K
365-day Installs 25 103.7K
Version 2.5.2 2.6.1
Auto-updates No Yes
Deprecated Yes No
GitHub Stars 18.9K
GitHub Forks 865
Open Issues 147
License MIT
Language Swift
Last GitHub Commit 2mo ago
First Seen Nov 6, 2013 Jun 29, 2019

Reviews

Plain Clip

Plain Clip is a lightweight macOS utility that removes formatting from copied text, ensuring clean, plain text pasting. It's ideal for users who frequently copy and paste text across applications, offering a quick and efficient solution for maintaining text integrity.

Strips formatting from copied text to provide clean, plain text output.

Pros

  • + Lightweight and efficient for clean text pasting
  • + Simplifies workflow for frequent text copy-paste users
  • + Quick and reliable solution for formatting issues

Cons

  • - No auto-update feature
  • - Limited community support and discussion

Maccy

Maccy is a popular, open-source clipboard manager for macOS that offers lightweight, searchable clipboard history. It benefits users who frequently copy and paste, especially developers and power users looking for efficient clipboard management.

Maccy manages and organizes clipboard content with search functionality.

Pros

  • + Open-source and lightweight
  • + Searchable clipboard history
  • + Auto-updates for convenience

Cons

  • - Clipboard content limit
  • - Memory usage concerns