Privacy and data

Your history belongs to you. It stays on your Mac and can be deleted at any time.

What ClipWorX stores

For each captured item, ClipWorX stores the content (text with formatting, image, file paths or color value), the time, and the app it was copied from. For files, ClipWorX stores only the path, not the file itself. If you move or delete the file, the item no longer points to it.

Where the data is kept

All data is stored locally in your user folder:

~/Library/Application Support/ClipWorx/

Only if you turn on iCloud sync does ClipWorX transfer your history and pinboards to the private area of your iCloud account. Without sync, your history never leaves your Mac. Checking for updates transmits no content from your history.

Confidential content

Many password managers, such as 1Password or Bitwarden, mark copied passwords as confidential. If Exclude passwords and confidential data is turned on in Settings › Rules, ClipWorX doesn’t store such content.

Excluding apps

ClipWorX never stores anything from the apps in the Don’t record list. It decides this by which app was active when the content was copied. This is useful for password managers, banking apps or apps containing patient data.

Deleting items