Clipboard History
Everything you copied, a keystroke away. Press ⌃⌘V anywhere.
- Text, links and images
- Instant search, ⌘1–⌘9 quick select
- Pin what you reuse
- Password-manager items are skipped before they're read
- Exclude any app
The small fixes macOS forgot.
Clipboard history, a color picker and classic mouse scrolling in one small, native menu-bar app. Everything stays on this Mac.
Why it exists
Five menu-bar apps for five small annoyances. Now one.
Makitro started as a developer's tidy-up. A clipboard manager, a window snapper, a scroll fixer, a display tool and a keyboard-cleaning app, each with its own icon, permissions and update schedule. Makitro is the one native app that replaces them.
- Maccy
- Rectangle
- Mos
- MonitorControl
- KeyboardCleanTool
- Five sets of permission prompts
- Five update checkers running in the background
- Five settings windows that each look different
To be straight about it: clipboard history and scroll reversing are in Makitro today; window management, monitor controls and keyboard cleaning are next. And if you only need one of these, Rectangle and Maccy are great, free, open-source apps. Makitro is for people who'd rather have one.
Features
Turn on only what you use.
Every tool has its own switch. A tool that's off costs zero CPU and never asks for a permission.
Available now Free
Color Picker
Pick any pixel on screen with ⌃⌘C and copy it in the format you need.
- HEX, RGB and HSL
- Click a format to copy it
- No Screen Recording permission needed
Scroll Reverser
Classic scrolling on your mouse wheel, natural scrolling on your trackpad. macOS makes you pick one; you don't have to.
- Mouse and trackpad handled separately
- Uses Accessibility only while it's on
Coming soon
Keyboard Cleaning
Lock the keyboard for a minute so you can wipe it without typing into something. The mouse keeps working, and a timer always ends it.
Window Management
Snap windows into place with the keyboard or by dragging to an edge.
- Halves, quarters and thirds
- Drag to edge
- Adjustable gaps
Monitor Controls
The display controls macOS keeps for Apple monitors.
- Brightness for external displays (DDC)
- HiDPI on non-Retina monitors
- Soft eject a display
Privacy
Your clipboard never leaves your Mac.
A clipboard manager sees your passwords, messages and code. So Makitro is built to keep all of it local, and to be easy to check.
No account, no cloud
History is stored on this Mac, excluded from Time Machine, and deleted when you say so. It's never uploaded or synced.
No analytics
No tracking, no crash-reporting SDK, and clipboard contents are never logged, even in debug builds.
Offline license check
Makitro Pro verifies its license on your Mac with a signature check. No activation server, no phoning home.
Don't take our word for it.
Run Little Snitch (or the free LuLu) and watch Makitro. The only connection it ever makes is the update check to makitro.app, and only after you've said yes to it. Read the full privacy policy.
Built like a Mac app
Small, native, and out of your way.
Native Swift, not Electron
Written in Swift and SwiftUI. No bundled browser, no web view, light on memory, at home in Light and Dark Mode.
Idle means idle
Makitro does no work for tools that are off. Permissions are asked for only when you turn on the tool that needs them, with a plain reason first.
Pay once, if ever
Everything here today is free. Pro, when it arrives, is a one-time purchase: no subscription, no account.
Questions
Is it really free?
Yes. Clipboard History, Color Picker and Scroll Reverser are free, with no trial timer, no account and no ads. Keyboard Cleaning will be free too. Nothing that's free today will be moved behind Pro.
What will Pro cost?
$14.99, once, with a $9.99 founder price at launch. It includes all 1.x updates and works on up to 2 of your Macs. If it's not for you, there's a 14-day refund, no questions asked. Details.
Why isn't it on the App Store?
Scroll Reverser needs an Accessibility event tap to change scroll direction for the mouse only, and the App Store sandbox doesn't allow that. So Makitro is distributed directly, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which means macOS has checked it for malware before you open it.
Does it phone home?
Only to check for updates, and only if you allow it: Makitro asks before it checks automatically. The check downloads makitro.app/appcast.xml and sends nothing beyond a normal web request with the app version. Clipboard history, colors and settings are never sent anywhere, and the Pro license is verified offline.
How do I uninstall it?
- Quit Makitro from its menu-bar icon.
- Drag Makitro from Applications to the Trash.
- To remove your data too, delete
~/Library/Application Support/com.makitro.Makitro/and~/Library/Preferences/com.makitro.Makitro.plist. - Optionally remove Makitro from System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility, and, if you activated Pro, remove the license first in Makitro › Makitro Pro.