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MacPastePal vs Maccy
PastePal vs Maccy: verdict, pricing, and specs compared, so you can pick the right one for your Mac.
At a glance
PastePal
$14.99 one-time (App Store or standalone Mac license) — free to download and tryA universal clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad — one-time purchase with no subscription, syncing history across devices via iCloud.
Maccy
FreeA free, open-source clipboard manager that does one job — searchable clipboard history, keyboard-first, with nothing else bolted on.
Spec comparison
PastePal
- Price
- $14.99 one-time (App Store or standalone Mac license) — free to download and try
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- License
- Proprietary
- Placement
- Menu bar
- Channels
- Mac App Store · Direct
- Category
- Utilities
Maccy
- Price
- Free
- Pricing model
- Free
- License
- Open source
- Placement
- Menu bar
- Channels
- Homebrew · Direct · Mac App Store
- Category
- Utilities
The verdict
Maccy is free, open source, and deliberately does one job — fast, keyboard-driven search over clipboard history, with no cloud sync and nothing else bolted on. PastePal costs $14.99 one-time, no subscription, and goes much further: a Paste Stack for collecting multiple items before pasting them together, Peer Share to move clips between your own devices over the local network, content-aware previews, and — on the App Store version — the same history synced to iPhone and iPad too. If you want the simplest possible tool for free, Maccy is hard to beat; if you want cross-device sync and richer clip handling and don’t mind paying once, PastePal is worth the $14.99.
Which one should you pick?
Pick PastePal if…
- Pick PastePal if you want your clipboard history synced to iPhone and iPad, not just your Mac
- Pick PastePal if Paste Stack — collecting several items to paste all at once — fits how you work
- Pick PastePal if content-aware previews (hex colors, rich text, PDFs, links) matter to you
- Pick PastePal if you’re fine paying $14.99 once for the extra depth
Pick Maccy if…
- Pick Maccy if you want free, open-source software (MIT license) with nothing to buy, ever
- Pick Maccy if fast, keyboard-first search over clipboard history is genuinely all you need
- Pick Maccy if you don’t want cloud sync or extra features — no snippets, no notch UI, per the developer’s own “no fluff” framing
- Pick Maccy if you want a password manager’s clipboard-clearing behavior respected automatically
PastePal vs Maccy — questions people ask
Is Maccy really free?
Yes — free and open source (MIT license), with no paid tier at all.
Is PastePal a subscription?
No — it’s a one-time purchase, $14.99 for either the App Store or standalone Mac license, per the developer.
Does PastePal sync to iPhone and iPad?
Yes, but only the Mac App Store version — the standalone direct-purchase version is Mac-only and doesn’t include the iPhone/iPad apps or iCloud sync.