Maccy + Raycast: A Clipboard Workflow That Actually Speeds You Up
By the Maccy Editorial Team · Updated October 31, 2026 · About 8 min read
The fastest setup is to let each tool do one job: Maccy app keeps your clipboard history behind a single hotkey, while Raycast handles launching, snippets and text expansion. Turn off Raycast’s own clipboard history hotkey so the two don’t compete, and set up ignore rules for sensitive copies in whichever tool you keep as your history.
Quick answer (TL;DR)
- Maccy = recall what you copied. Open it with Shift+Cmd+C (the default), type to search, press Return.
- Raycast = launch apps, expand snippets, manage windows, run commands.
- Don’t run two histories. Disable one, or everything you copy gets stored twice.
- Raycast alone may be enough if you already live in it and don’t mind a closed-source tool holding your history.
Most “Maccy mac vs Raycast” discussions treat this as a fight. It isn’t one. Raycast is a launcher that happens to include a clipboard history command. Maccy clipboard is a clipboard manager that does nothing else. The interesting question is where the line between them should sit on your Mac, so you stop reaching for the wrong tool.
Do Maccy and Raycast conflict?
Not technically. They are independent apps, and macOS lets any number of apps read the pasteboard. The practical conflicts are softer:
- Hotkey collisions. If you assign the same shortcut to both, whichever app registers it first generally wins, and the other silently stops responding.
- Double storage. With both history features active, every copied item lands in two databases on your disk.
- Two sets of ignore rules. Teaching one app to skip your password manager doesn’t teach the other.
If you want to try it yourself, maccy.at is a free, open-source clipboard manager for macOS — the clipboard history guide covers the rest.