skhd VS Maccy

Compare skhd vs Maccy and see what are their differences.

skhd

Simple hotkey daemon for macOS (by koekeishiya)

Maccy

Lightweight clipboard manager for macOS (by p0deje)
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skhd Maccy
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5,536 10,476
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3.0 9.1
18 days ago 5 days ago
C Swift
MIT License MIT License
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skhd

Posts with mentions or reviews of skhd. 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.

  • Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    I want to echo this as well. I use a 2nd tool to help me add additional i3-like keyboard shortcuts as well (I have the ability to "stack" windows with Alt-S and rotate through them with Alt-J and Alt-K).

    It's called skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

    I forgot where the script for the stacking is. I can look that up separately, but I'm on mobile atm.

  • App Switcher on MAC
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 18 Jun 2023
    Try rcmd or skhd.
  • i3 Linux -> macOS
    7 projects | /r/i3wm | 5 Jun 2023
    What I've done is configure yabai and skhd in a way that somewhat mimics my i3 setup (dotfiles in case it helps) with the help of Karabiner-Elements since Apple wouldn't recognize my keyboard layout properly (or at all...).
  • Ask HN: I've run Linux for 13 years. Is it time to switch to a Mac?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2023
  • Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    I use NixOS+GNOME+pop-shell for tiling windows on Linux, and I love it!

    I am quite frequently on MacOS, and I use Yabai[0] and skhd[1], managed with Nix-Darwin for tiling windows and custom keyboard shortcuts. With how I make my Linux and MacOS builds look and feel identical it's pretty easy for me to forget when I'm on one vs the other.

    For anyone curious, here's my repository for deploying my configs[3]. It's awesome to have one source of truth for managing NixOS servers and workstations, MacOS workstations, and other Linux workstations with Nix installed.

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

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

    [2] http://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/

    [3] https://github.com/heywoodlh/nixos-configs

  • How to disable CMD+TAB in Terminal
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 20 Apr 2023
    You can install skhd with brew install skhd, and configure it by writing the following lines inside ~/.skhdrc:
  • Recommendation for an app to execute a workflow with some hotkey !
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 5 Apr 2023
    I personally use skhd for binding hotkeys to multiple terminal commands. BetterTouchTool can also chain multiple commands, but I find it harder to edit than in an UI, depends on what you're comfortable with.
  • Alternatives to Karabiner?
    1 project | /r/macapps | 11 Mar 2023
    That, combined with skhd (for script hotkeys) and my rcmd app (for app switching) gave me a much better solution than the hard to edit config I had in Karabiner.

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 skhd 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

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

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

awesome-mac - Awesome environment for development with mac os.

CopyQ - Clipboard manager with advanced features

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

Pasteboard-Viewer - 📋 Inspect the system pasteboards on macOS

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

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

simple-bar - A yabai status bar widget for Übersicht

iina - The modern video player for macOS.