What is the main difference between Maccy and Clipmory?

Maccy is a minimalist text-based dropdown list anchored in your Mac's top menu bar. Clipmory is a modern productivity workstation featuring rich visual preview cards for images, code, and text, Apple Vision OCR to extract text from screenshots, Touch ID biometric protection for passwords and API keys, and pinboards.

Can Maccy extract text from images or screenshots?

No. Maccy only captures images as raw attachments without optical character recognition. Clipmory includes native Apple Vision OCR, allowing you to instantly search and copy text directly from screenshots and photos saved in your history.

Is Clipmory private like Maccy?

Yes. Like Maccy, Clipmory is 100% on-device with zero telemetry and zero cloud sync. Furthermore, Clipmory adds a Touch ID Privacy Shield that automatically detects sensitive tokens, passwords, and credit cards, keeping them redacted until biometrically verified.

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Maccy vs. Clipmory:
Minimalist List vs. Modern Workstation

Maccy is beloved for its tiny footprint, but its plain menu list falls short when dealing with images, code snippets, and sensitive data. Here is how Clipmory elevates your workflow.

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Rich Visual Previews

Maccy displays clipped lines of text in a narrow menu dropdown. Clipmory provides large, interactive cards showing full multi-line code, image thumbnails, colors, and link metadata.

Apple Vision OCR

Copied a screenshot with an error code or receipt? Clipmory automatically extracts and indexes the text using Apple Vision. Maccy cannot read or search text inside images.

Touch ID Privacy Shield

Protect sensitive API keys, passwords, and tokens. Clipmory auto-redacts sensitive patterns and requires fingerprint verification before revealing them.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Compare every feature between Clipmory and Maccy.

Feature	Clipmory WINNER	Maccy
User Interface & Presentation How history items are displayed	Floating palette with rich visual cards & full previews	Single-line menu-bar dropdown text list
Image Text Recognition (OCR) Extracting selectable text from images	Built-in Apple Vision OCR engine	Not supported
Biometric Protection (Touch ID) Shielding sensitive tokens & passwords	Automatic detection & Touch ID mask	None (shows raw text)
Search Performance & Engine Query speed across 100,000+ items	Sub-millisecond local SQLite FTS5 index	In-memory fuzzy string match (can slow on large history)
Privacy Architecture Where clipboard data is stored	100% on-device local storage (Zero telemetry)	100% on-device local storage
Category & Type Filtering Filtering by links, images, colors, code	Dedicated filter tabs & Pinboard	Basic pin toggle
Pricing Software license	7-day free trial, then $29.99 lifetime	Free (Open-source) or $9.99 on App Store

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Maccy vs. Clipmory: Minimalist List vs. Modern Workstation