Cliptory Privacy Policy
Effective date: July 4, 2026
Cliptory is a clipboard manager for macOS. This policy covers what data it handles and where it goes.
What Cliptory stores
- Clipboard history (text, images, and file references) and app preferences, saved locally. On Mac App Store builds the app is sandboxed, so this data lives inside Cliptory's private sandbox container —
~/Library/Containers/com.hunterops.cliptory/Data/Library/Application Support/Cliptory/— not at the unsandboxed path. - History is encrypted at rest with AES-256, using a key stored in the macOS Keychain and scoped to Cliptory only.
On-device processing
Everything Cliptory does with your clipboard happens locally on your Mac:
- Clipboard text, images, and file references are captured and processed on-device.
- Optical character recognition (OCR), which makes the text inside screenshots searchable, runs entirely on-device using Apple's Vision framework. Images are never sent anywhere for text recognition.
- On-device processing is not data collection: Cliptory does not transmit this data off your device in any form the developer can access.
What leaves your Mac
Nothing, by default. Cliptory has no analytics, no crash reporting, and no network requests unless you turn on iCloud sync.
If you enable iCloud sync in Settings, only your pinned items and collections are uploaded to your own private CloudKit database, which is tied to your Apple ID and not accessible to the developer or anyone else. Everyday clipboard history is never synced, even with sync enabled.
Permissions
Cliptory can request Accessibility access, which it uses only to synthesize a Cmd+V paste keystroke so a selected history item pastes directly into the frontmost app. Cliptory does not read input, keystrokes, or screen contents from other apps. Without this permission, selecting an item still copies it to the clipboard for you to paste manually.
Deleting your data
You can delete individual history items in Cliptory (Option-Delete) or clear all local history from the menu bar or Settings. Removing the app and its sandbox container deletes all local data; the encryption key can be removed via Keychain Access by searching for “Cliptory”. Pinned items you have synced are removed from iCloud when you unpin them or delete their collection; to remove everything at once, turn off sync and delete Cliptory's data under System Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage → Cliptory.
Data sharing
Cliptory does not sell, share, or transmit your data to any third party. There is no server operated by the developer that Cliptory data passes through.
Contact
Questions about this policy: kadin.hunter.ai@icloud.com