Clipy vs Yippy

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Clipy		Yippy
	Project
36	Mentions	3
7,198	Stars	345
0.0%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Clipy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Clipy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.

Clipboard history
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 17 May 2023

I like Clipy https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy
Is there any option/tool to have access to the clipboard history as there is in Windows?
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 26 Apr 2023

I am a huge fan of a freeware program called Clipy and use it to not only have a persistent clipboard history across restarts, but to also have a library of signatures for email and other purposes at my fingertips. Highly recommended: https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy
I was a MacOS hater until...
15 projects | /r/MacOS | 20 Mar 2023

Are you talking about Clipy (one "p") with the latest release being 1.2.1 from October 2018 and whose website appears to be in Korean?
What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
16 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 16 Feb 2023
Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
69 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
Can I stop the startup notification for Clipy app?
2 projects | /r/MacOS | 28 Nov 2022
Is there an easy way in Oryx to set up a macro that just pastes some text?
1 project | /r/ergodox | 23 Nov 2022

I havent found one in just oryx, but you can use it in combination with hotkeys set in Clipy or (presumably) a different clipboard manager
KDE beats MacOS hands down
5 projects | /r/kde | 15 Nov 2022

https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy is what I use, can't live without it.
Any similar software solution to windows' clipboard history?
1 project | /r/MacOS | 9 Nov 2022

Clipy is great and free/open source!
Crap… 👀
2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 5 Oct 2022

Yippy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Yippy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-04.

Always paste without formatting on macOS
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023

I really like https://github.com/mattDavo/Yippy for 'managing' my copy-pasting.
Does anyone know how to compile this app for Apple Silicon (MacOS clipboard manager)
1 project | /r/Applesilicon | 26 May 2022
Yippy: open source clipboard manager written in Swift
1 project | /r/macapps | 11 Jun 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Clipy and Yippy you can also consider the following projects:

Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

AlDente-Charge-Limiter - macOS menubar tool to set Charge Limits and prolong battery lifespan

vscode-indent-rainbow - Extension which shows indentation with a faint rainbow colored background to make them more readable

Riru-ClipboardWhitelist - A module of Riru/Zygisk. Allowing apps to access the clipboard in the background on Android 10.

macos-receiver - A MacOS TabBar (StatusBar) application that securely receives one-time passwords (OTPs) that you tapped in Raivo for iOS.

xcodes - The best command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.

Clipy - Clipboard extension app for macOS.

vscode-auto-rename-tag - Automatically rename paired HTML/XML tag

RsyncOSX - A macOS GUI for rsync.

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.