Clipboard history on Mac: Klavuni, Spotlight, Maccy and Raycast
What the clipboard history does in Klavuni, in Spotlight on macOS, in Maccy and in Raycast. About the other apps, only what their own pages and documentation say.
Comparison
| Klavuni | Spotlight (macOS 26 and later) | Maccy | Raycast | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How the history opens, and how long it is kept | ⇧⌘V opens the history panel, and the Klavuni menu shows your last 12 clips. Keeps up to 90 days and 5,000 items, adjustable on the Clipboard tab in Settings. | ⌘Space, then ⌘4 or the Clipboard button. In macOS 27, it shows what you copied in the last 30 minutes, 8 hours or 7 days. | ⇧⌘C opens Maccy. 1 to 999 items, 200 by default: a count, not a time. | Free: up to 3 months; Pro: without limit, if you pick it in settings. |
| Search | Search the whole history. | Yes. | Yes. | Yes: by name, and ⌘P filters by type. |
| Pinning | ⌘P in the panel pins a clip, free. | Not mentioned in Apple’s documentation. | Yes, ⌥P. | Yes: Pin Entry (⌘ .). |
| Per-app exceptions | For every app, “Keep copied text” decides whether what you copy in it goes into the history. | Not verified | Yes: a list of apps Maccy doesn’t record (Ignore settings). And ⌥-click on the menu bar icon disables Maccy and ignores all new copies. | Yes: a Disabled Applications list — apps where clipboard changes are not recorded. |
| Snippets with fields | Yes, in Pro: write {name} in a snippet, and ↩ opens a card with the fields before it pastes. | macOS’s built-in text replacements are pairs of text and replacement, and aren’t available in all apps; Apple’s documentation does not mention fields. | Not mentioned in the README or on maccy.app. | Yes, free: placeholders such as {clipboard}, {argument}, {date} and {cursor}. |
| Paste queue | Yes, in Pro: mark clips in the panel, and ⌃⌥V pastes them one by one. | Not mentioned in Apple’s documentation. | Not mentioned in the README or on maccy.app. | Yes — Paste Sequentially. |
| Text cleanup and transforms | Eight built-in transforms are free; text cleanup and your own chains are Pro. | Not mentioned in Apple’s documentation. | Not mentioned in the README or on maccy.app. | Edit before pasting, paste without formatting. |
| Per-app correction rules | Manual, Hints and Auto for a single app are Pro; As everywhere and Off are free. | Not mentioned in Apple’s documentation. | Not mentioned in the README or on maccy.app. | Not mentioned in Raycast’s documentation. |
| Keyboard layout fixing | ⌃⌥K fixes the selected text or, when nothing is selected, the word before the cursor. | Not mentioned in Apple’s documentation. | Not mentioned in the README or on maccy.app. | Not built in: only third-party extensions, such as “Punto Switcher” by red.avtovo — manual, on selected text. |
| Price | Free has no time limit. Klavuni Pro — $14.99 until 31 December 2026, then $24.99 | Part of macOS. | Free and open source (MIT); $9.99 on the App Store. | Free tier; Pro is $10 a month or $96 a year. |
Not verified: no primary source settles it either way, so we claim nothing here. “Not mentioned”: the product’s official page is silent about it; which page, the sources say.
Checked
Sources
- Spotlight — www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/macos-tahoe-26-makes-the-mac-more-capable-productive-and-intelligent-than-ever
- Spotlight — support.apple.com/en-us/122868
- Spotlight — support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/search-your-clipboard-history-mchl40d5b86b/26/mac/26
- Spotlight — support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchl54d95e8a/27/mac/27
- Spotlight — support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mh35735/mac
- Maccy — github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/README.md
- Maccy — github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/Maccy/Settings/StorageSettingsPane.swift
- Maccy — github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/Maccy/Extensions/Defaults.Keys+Names.swift
- Maccy — github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/Maccy/Settings/IgnoreSettingsPane/IgnoreApplicationsSettingsView.swift
- Maccy — github.com/p0deje/Maccy/blob/master/Maccy/Settings/en.lproj/IgnoreSettings.strings
- Maccy — github.com/p0deje/Maccy
- Maccy — maccy.app
- Maccy — apps.apple.com/us/app/maccy/id1527619437
- Raycast — raycast.com/pricing
- Raycast — manual.raycast.com/clipboard-history
- Raycast — manual.raycast.com/snippets
- Raycast — manual.raycast.com/dynamic-placeholders
- Raycast — raycast.com/red.avtovo/punto
What Klavuni adds
- Ukrainian and English layout fixing is built in: ⌃⌥K fixes a word or the selection, ⌃⌥L converts the selection or the line up to the cursor into one layout, and in Pro Klavuni also corrects as you type. In Raycast, only third-party extensions do this.
- All in one menu bar app: clipboard history, snippets, text transforms and layout fixing.
- Correction rules for each app — Manual, Hints or Auto — in Pro.
- Text cleanup before pasting, in Pro: extra spaces, PDF line breaks, lines into a paragraph, removing indentation.
Raycast has snippets with fields and a paste queue too, so we do not count them as Klavuni’s advantage.
When Spotlight is enough
If you are fine pressing ⌘Space and then ⌘4 to find something you copied recently now and then — in macOS 27 the history shows up to 7 days.
When Maccy is enough
If all you want is a free history of up to 999 items with search and pinning — and nothing more.
When Raycast is enough
If you already use Raycast: its free history (up to 3 months), snippets with placeholders and Paste Sequentially cover most of what Klavuni does with the clipboard, and the “Punto Switcher” extension fixes selected text by hand.
Another comparison: Keyboard layout fixing on Mac: Klavuni, Caramba, Punto, RuSwitcher, Switcher3way and reLayout
More on the clipboard history in Klavuni: Clipboard manager for Mac.