Quicksilver VS Maccy

Compare Quicksilver vs Maccy and see what are their differences.

Maccy

Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS (by p0deje)
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Quicksilver Maccy
16 30
2,706 10,533
0.3% -
7.0 9.1
about 1 month ago 5 days ago
Objective-C Swift
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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Quicksilver

Posts with mentions or reviews of Quicksilver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
  • The Largest Money-Printing Element Ever Made
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2023
    Pretty sure it was Nicholas Jitkoff[1] and his team. He had done Quicksilver[2] a few years back which popularized this single input interface for osx desktop.

    [1] https://nicholas.jitkoff.com/

    [2] https://qsapp.com/

  • Should I worry about using Raycast on MacOS?
    4 projects | /r/privacy | 25 Apr 2023
    There are these open source alternatives, I haven’t checked their privacy policies or their code Maybe try and report back? https://www.cerebroapp.com https://qsapp.com https://ueli.app https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Verve
  • Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    I've used Quicksilver for clipboard history historically. There is a currently a bug that I've been meaning to delve into: https://github.com/quicksilver/Quicksilver/issues/2913 but still generally usable. Particularly handy combined with adding simple AppleScript or JXA actions to manipulate the content (I have several simple ones for example to run a regex, to clean extraneous content around a number, a phone number, strip whitespace, indent 4 spaces for pasting into a markdown codeblock on SO, etc etc).

    The Shelf plug-in also very handy along similar lines.

  • The best Mac Apps to unlock your max potential (recommended by users of r/MacOs )
    13 projects | /r/MacOS | 22 Mar 2023
    Should add Quicksilver. It's the first app I install on my Macs
  • Boomer Wants to Learn Mac
    11 projects | /r/MacOS | 11 Mar 2023
    Spotlight-esque apps for enhanced keyboard driven productivity (pick one): Raycast Alfred Quicksilver
  • Why is Spotlight garbage these days?
    1 project | /r/apple | 19 Feb 2023
    Quicksilver
  • Resolving the Great Undo-Redo Quandary
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2022
    For a browsable clipboard history on macOS, I recommend LaunchBar (https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/; docs at https://www.obdev.at/resources/launchbar/help/ClipboardHisto...). I used to use the Clipboard Plugin of the free and open source app Quicksilver (https://qsapp.com/), which worked fine but was slightly less streamlined. Some people prefer Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com/help/features/clipboard/).
  • Shortcat – Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2022
    This is great. Reminds me of QuickSilver[1]. I'm evaluating HomeRow[2] for a VIM driving the Mac OS, will try this as well.

    I love how:

    a. accessibility features are making the OS more accessible for everyone through automation

    b. good the accessibility implementation is on the Mac that most applications are inherently compatible with solutions like this.

    [1]: https://qsapp.com/

    [2]: https://www.homerow.app/

  • Sol: Open-source Alfred/Raycast alternative for macOS
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Aug 2022
    Good to see something like this, don't forget there is already an open source alternative (pre-existing) for Alfred and Raycast. It's called Quicksilver - https://qsapp.com
  • Albert – open-source keyboard launcher for Linux
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jun 2022
    Kupfer (gnome) - https://kupferlauncher.github.io

    Quicksilver (macos): https://qsapp.com/

    I still find myself using these and enjoy the 'wei wu wei' flow of them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d4LkTstvUL4 (skip to 5 or 11 minutes in)

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Flycut - Clean and simple clipboard manager for developers

alfred-shortcuts

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

photon - ⚡ Rust/WebAssembly image processing library

CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features

company-mode - Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs

Pasteboard-Viewer - 📋 Inspect the system pasteboards on macOS

sol - MacOS launcher & command palette

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

KE-complex_modifications - Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules

iina - The modern video player for macOS.