ClipNest Privacy Policy

Effective: 2026-05-10

What we collect

Nothing. ClipNest is shipped without the network entitlement. The app literally cannot make outbound network requests, send analytics, or contact a remote server.

What stays on your Mac

• Clipboard history (text, images, files, color codes) — stored in the app's sandbox at ~/Library/Containers/app.clipnest.ClipNest/.
• Snippets, boards, and trigger definitions — same sandbox location.
• Settings (hotkey, history limit, blocklist) — UserDefaults inside the same sandbox.

Optional iCloud sync

If you enable iCloud sync in Settings, only your snippets and boards are mirrored to your private CloudKit database in your Apple ID's iCloud account. Your clipboard history is never synced. ClipNest has no server: the data travels directly between your Macs via Apple's infrastructure, and we cannot access it.

Accessibility permission

If you choose to use the snippet trigger feature, ClipNest requests Accessibility access to detect trigger keystrokes (like ;sig) as you type. The app only watches for matches with snippets you have defined. It does not log, store, or transmit your keystrokes.

Password managers

Trigger expansion is automatically suppressed in apps whose bundle identifier matches known password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, LastPass, Dashlane, Keychain Access, etc.). You can edit this list in Settings → Triggers.

Contact

Questions: see the support URL on the App Store listing.