One Big Clipboard is a clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. This policy explains, plainly, what One Big Clipboard does with your data. The short version: your clipboard stays yours. One Big Clipboard has no ads and no third-party analytics — the developer never receives or has access to anything you copy. The only data the app sends is the anonymous first-party usage counts described below.
What One Big Clipboard stores
To do its job, One Big Clipboard saves the things you copy or create so you can find and reuse them:
- Clip contents — text, links, images, files, and colors you copy or save.
- Snippets and notes — reusable snippets you write yourself, and any context notes you attach to a clip.
- Recognized text — for image clips, One Big Clipboard reads any text in the image (on-device) so you can search screenshots.
- Context — the name of the app a clip came from, the device name, and the time it was captured.
- Your organization — folders, tags, pins, links between clips, and any automation rules you create.
On macOS, One Big Clipboard captures the clipboard automatically while it runs. On iPhone and iPad, One Big Clipboard only reads the clipboard when you explicitly ask it to (by tapping "Save current clipboard" or sharing into the app).
Where your data lives
- On your device — all clips are stored locally on the Mac, iPhone, or iPad where they were captured.
- In your private iCloud — if you turn on iCloud sync, clips are mirrored through Apple's CloudKit private database, which belongs to your personal iCloud account. This keeps your clips in step across your own devices.
One Big Clipboard does not operate any server that stores your clips (aside from the anonymous analytics described below). The developer cannot see, retrieve, or access your clips. Data in your private iCloud is governed by Apple's iCloud terms and privacy policy.
What One Big Clipboard does NOT do
- No third-party analytics or ad SDKs, and no cross-app tracking — only the anonymous first-party usage counts described above.
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers (IDFA).
- No third-party SDKs and no data brokers.
- No selling or sharing of your data with anyone.
Sensitive content
Clipboards often hold passwords, card numbers, and other secrets. One Big Clipboard:
- Lets you encrypt an individual clip with AES-256-GCM. The encryption key is held in your device's Keychain behind Face ID / Touch ID and never leaves the device — an encrypted clip is stored only as ciphertext that not even the developer could read.
- Flags clips that look sensitive and can blur them in the interface.
- On macOS, skips clips that password managers mark as concealed.
- Lets you require Face ID / Touch ID to open the app.
Widgets and the macOS notch shelf display your recent clips, so add a widget only where you are comfortable with clips being glanceable. Because clip contents can be sensitive, only enable iCloud sync if you are comfortable with your clips being stored in your iCloud account.
Deleting your data
You are always in control of your data:
- Delete any individual clip.
- "Clear Unpinned History" removes all non-pinned clips.
- "Erase All One Big Clipboard Data" removes every clip, folder, and rule — including the copies in your iCloud.
- Turning off iCloud sync stops further syncing; deleting clips removes the iCloud copies.
Children
One Big Clipboard is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. It does not collect personal information and contains no user-to-user content.
Changes
If this policy changes, the "Last updated" date above will change and the new version will be posted at the same URL.
Anonymous analytics & purchase reporting
The app reports a few anonymous things to our own dashboard (called Proceeds, hosted for us by Supabase) through our first-party analytics component, PulseKit. Each is tied only to a random install identifier created on your device — it is not your Apple ID, IDFA, or IDFV, is not linked to your name or identity, and is not used to track you across other apps or companies. None of it includes the content you create in the app.
- A once-a-day "app opened" ping — a count that the app was opened, with the app version and OS version, so we can gauge how many people use the app.
- A purchase report — if you buy or restore a purchase, the Apple-signed transaction details (product identifier, transaction identifier, and date) are relayed so the sale is recorded. This contains no payment card details and no identity.
- A daily subscription-status snapshot — if the app offers a subscription, once a day PulseKit reports whether a subscription is currently active and which plan, so we can count active subscribers in aggregate. If the app has no subscription, nothing is sent here.
This reporting is built into the app; it does not read or transmit the content you create. In App Store terms it maps to Product Interaction, Purchase History, and a Device ID (the random install identifier), all declared as not linked to your identity and not used for tracking.