Feature Spotlight
The Best Free Mac Clipboard Manager
Stop losing copied text. Notchyadds a beautiful, visual clipboard history directly to your MacBook notch. It's the perfect free alternative to Maccy and CopyClip — and it doesn't clutter your menu bar.
Zero menu bar clutter
Most clipboard managers cram another icon into your already crowded menu bar. Notchy hides your clipboard history inside the notch. Just swipe down or click the notch to see everything you've copied.
100% Free
Don't pay for basic macOS functionality. Notchy gives you a premium clipboard manager, plus a Pomodoro timer and music controls, completely free. No subscriptions, no trials.
Visual history
See what you're pasting. Notchy doesn't just show text; it displays rich previews of copied images, links, and hex color codes.
Privacy absolute
Your clipboard contains sensitive data (passwords, emails, banking info). Notchy is 100% local, sandboxed, and has zero analytics tracking.
Everything Notchy does, for free
- Fluid Dynamic Island animations on the Mac notch
- Now Playing music controls (Apple Music & Spotify)
- Time-synced karaoke lyrics under the notch
- Mac clipboard history shelf (password-manager safe)
- Drag-and-drop file drop shelf — persists across relaunches
- Zip & unzip files right from the shelf
- Image converter (HEIC, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, PDF) + video → GIF
- Run Apple Shortcuts with one tap
- Screenshots auto-staged on the shelf, ready to drag
- Download finished alerts with Reveal in Finder
- USB drive mount island with one-tap Eject
- Apple Reminders quick capture & due list
- macOS Pomodoro notch timer & stopwatch
- System HUDs (volume, brightness, battery)
- Audio output switcher (speakers, AirPods, monitor)
- AirPods connection manager & battery
- Magic Mouse, Keyboard & Trackpad battery + low-battery alerts
- Quick notes & Calendar widgets
- Camera Mirror (check your appearance)
- Keep Awake (caffeine toggle)
- Teleprompter (Cuely) for Zoom calls
- Focus-aware alerts & native haptic feedback
- Lock screen widgets & hide-the-notch mode
- 133 languages, fully localized
- Native SwiftUI, tuned for Apple Silicon
Mac Clipboard History — FAQ
Does Mac have a built-in clipboard history?
No. By default, macOS only remembers the very last thing you copied. To see your clipboard history, you need a third-party clipboard manager app.
How do I see clipboard history on Mac?
With Notchy, simply swipe down on your MacBook notch (or the floating pill on notchless Macs) to instantly reveal a visual history of the text, links, and images you've copied.
Is Notchy a free alternative to Maccy?
Yes. While Maccy and CopyClip are popular options, Notchy provides a gorgeous clipboard history manager for free, and it doesn't clutter your menu bar because it lives inside the notch.
Does Notchy track what I copy?
No. Notchy is built with a strict privacy-first architecture. It does not contain any analytics, telemetry, or network-calling code. Your clipboard data stays entirely local on your Mac and is routinely cleared.
Can I pin clipboard items?
Yes. Pin any entry and it floats to the top of the shelf, survives the history cap, and is kept even when you hit Clear — ideal for snippets you paste all day.
Is it safe to use with a password manager?
Yes. Notchy honors the standard concealed and transient pasteboard markers used by 1Password, Keychain Access and other password managers — secret copies are flagged by those apps and Notchy never records them into history.