Maccy VS yabai

Compare Maccy vs yabai and see what are their differences.

Maccy

Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS (by p0deje)

yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning (by koekeishiya)
InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
www.influxdata.com
featured
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
www.saashub.com
featured
Maccy yabai
30 218
10,533 21,618
- -
9.1 9.6
7 days ago 14 days ago
Swift C
MIT 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.

Maccy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Maccy. 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
    Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see thorough docs and tests https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy
  • Clipboard history
    2 projects | /r/MacOS | 17 May 2023
    I've been using this: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy
  • MacOS improvement discussion
    5 projects | /r/MacOS | 15 May 2023
    The downloads are on GitHub here: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/releases
  • In your opinion, what is the best one-time (non-recurring) purchase Mac App?
    3 projects | /r/macapps | 3 May 2023
    Yes. Free and open source. Here. But you can support the developer by getting it from the Mac App Store. It's worth it the price.
  • Power User's Guide to the Galaxy
    9 projects | /r/MacOS | 2 May 2023
    With Alfred you can do almost anything efficiently.  Personally, I did get its powerpack to get all of Alfred's features; clipboard history and much more. Though when it comes to clipboard history there's a free alternative: Maccy. Back to Alfred - Alfred can also create workflows that allows you to control apps, make snippets and queries directly to websites that you can customize. Watch this video to learn more.
  • Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    Yep, for now.

    https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/issues/130

  • Maccy 0.26
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 16 Mar 2023
    Maccy - an open source clipboard manager that I develop got a new version 0.26 yesterday that I'm excited about. The whole changelog is in GitHub and some of the new features are making it a way more powerful tool that needs a bit more explanation, so I've decided to write this post, though I'm not sure if Reddit is the best place for this.
  • My apps so far.. any more recommendations?
    3 projects | /r/macapps | 26 Feb 2023
    Maccy - Clipboard History
  • Whats your opinion on Maccy app for MacOS?
    2 projects | /r/privacy | 19 Feb 2023
    Maccy is an open source app, so you can inspect the source code to make sure there is nothing malicious there - https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy. It's also fully sandboxed and doesn't allow outgoing communication so the data it stores never leaves your computer. All the data lives in $HOME/Library/Containers/org.p0deje.Maccy/.
  • Apps I use everyday thanks to this sub!
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 13 Feb 2023
    Guess I should add support for iCloud in Maccy. It’s been long due https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy/issues/182.

yabai

Posts with mentions or reviews of yabai. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.
  • My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).
  • Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2024
    I have a 49 inch CRG9 and the best recommendation for window management is Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) along with skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd). Yabai is a greedy window management solution that tries to fit opened applications in given space and skhd let's you easily jump between those using keyboard shortcuts. This has massively improved my ultrawide experience.

    Only disclaimer is, configuring yabai has a slight learning curve.

  • Is there an app that does this Windows feature?
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 5 Dec 2023
    Want something free that's better than tiling on Windows? Yabai.
  • Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 2 Dec 2023
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    Here it is. There is no visualization of the stack, which apparently Stackline in the other comment supports, but I don't tend to need that. Just being able to move between the windows is good enough for me.

    https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/203#issuecomment...

  • Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2023
    I use Yabai on my Macs without SIP enabled. Here’s a list of the features that absolutely require SIP to be disabled: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863

    But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling.

    > there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly

    This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too.

    For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.

  • macOS Containers v0.0.1
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    SIP is a feature that protects you from malicious actors with root (admin) access on your device. After they've encrypted your photos and drives and changed your passwords, it prevents them from making your machine unbootable by deleting or altering system binaries. As a side effect of this protection, you give up certain freedoms to customize your system.

    https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

    For instance requires SIP to be disabled.

  • Yabai: A binary space partitioning tiling window manager for macOS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2023
  • Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
    This is disproven by the fact that Yabai [1] can instantly swap spaces with SIP disabled.

    [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

  • [Serious] I don't get why people like Mac and I feel like I'm missing out
    4 projects | /r/webdev | 11 Jun 2023
    If you find the native window management lackluster (like I do), you can install a window manager like Amethyst, or yabai, veeer, or many others.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Maccy and yabai you can also consider the following projects:

Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

open-source-mac-os-apps - 🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps

Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features

vscode-vibrancy - Enable Acrylic/Glass effect for your VS Code.

Pasteboard-Viewer - 📋 Inspect the system pasteboards on macOS

Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

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

alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS

iina - The modern video player for macOS.

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.