Comparison

OmniMac vs Maccy

Maccy does one thing (Clipboard). OmniMac does it and adds six more modules in the same app. Here are the facts, no adjectives: usage measured on the same Mac, what each does better and when to pick one or the other.

The facts

Maccy 2.7.1OmniMac 0.5.1
What it doesClipboard history with search, designed to be used from the keyboard.Seven modules: keep awake, ⌘Tab by windows, dynamic notch, window shortcuts, clipboard, tools (OCR, colour, keyboard, microphone) and sound
Price and codeFree and open source (MIT); paid version on the Mac App StoreFree, open source (MIT), no accounts, no telemetry
Memory at idle (RSS)91 MB86 MB (33–37 MB of real physical memory)
CPU at idle0.020 %0.017–0.033 %
Size on disk10 MB16 MB
Threads at idle46
RequirementsmacOS (see its site)macOS 14.2 or later, Apple silicon and Intel

What Maccy does that OmniMac doesn't

  • History size configurable up to thousands of entries and fuzzy search
  • Paste without formatting with its own shortcut, and ignored apps
  • Fully keyboard-driven interface with customisable shortcuts

What OmniMac adds

  • Text, images and files, with search and pinned items (⌥P)
  • Pause, and optional on-disk history (nothing is saved by default)
  • 1 Hz polling with tolerance: zero work when you copy nothing
  • Shares the app with the notch, ⌘Tab and windows

When to pick each

How it was measured

Each app on its own on the same Apple silicon MacBook running macOS 26.5, on 9 September 2026, 50 s at idle with the cursor away from the notch after 15 s of startup. CPU = CPU time consumed divided by elapsed time (ps -o cputime); memory = RSS (ps -o rss); OmniMac's real physical memory (footprint) is 33–37 MB in the 0.5.1 measurement. One run: think orders of magnitude, not decimals. Full methodology and results in docs/PERFORMANCE.md (Spanish); the feature inventory in docs/COMPETENCIA.md.

Try OmniMac

Download OmniMac.pkgSee the code on GitHub

Free, no accounts. macOS 14.2 or later. Also brew install --cask BySergiMM/tap/omnimac.