Clipmint
Privacy policy
Short version: Clipmint keeps your clips on your phone. We don't collect, see or sell anything you copy, and there's no account. If you say yes, Clipmint sends anonymous usage counts so we can improve it; it never sends what you copy.
What Clipmint stores
Clipmint saves the text (with its formatting), links, images and files you copy or share to it, along with the name of the app they came from and when you copied them. Everything is stored only on your phone:
- Your clip history and pinboards are kept in an encrypted database. The key is created on your phone and kept in its secure storage (the iPhone Keychain or the Android Keystore).
- Saved images, and a short list of recent clips that the Clipmint keyboard and widgets show, are kept in Clipmint's private app storage, which other apps can't read.
- Clips you add to the paste queue, and clips you give a text shortcut, are kept in that same private storage so the Clipmint keyboard can paste or expand them.
- Files you share to Clipmint (up to 25 MB each) are kept in that private storage too.
Camera
Clipmint uses the camera only when you open its QR scanner or Scan text. It reads the code or the words on the page on your phone; only the text you choose to save is kept, the photo is deleted, and nothing is uploaded.
Smart keyboard suggestions
The Clipmint keyboard looks at the kind of box you're typing in (for example email or phone) to show matching clips first. On Android it also counts which clips you paste in which app, so your usual ones come first there. These counts stay on your phone, in Clipmint's private storage, and are never sent anywhere.
Text in images
So you can search your screenshots, Clipmint reads the words in saved images and stores them with the image in the encrypted database. This happens on your phone: on iPhone with Apple's built-in Vision, and on Android with Google's ML Kit, which runs inside the app. Your images and their text are never uploaded. Google's ML Kit may send Google anonymous technical stats about how the text reader performs, such as how long it took; these never include your images or their text. See Google's ML Kit terms.
Spotlight search (iPhone)
If Show clips in Spotlight is on, Clipmint adds your clips to the iPhone's own on-device search index so you can find them from the Home Screen. The index stays on your phone and is managed by iOS. One-time codes, card numbers, secrets and clips in locked pinboards are never added. Turning the setting off, deleting a clip or clearing your history removes them from the index.
What Clipmint does not do
- No account and no sign-in.
- No crash-reporting tools, and no tracking across other companies' apps and websites.
- Clipmint never uploads your clips, images, pinboards or templates, or sends them anywhere.
- We never sell your data.
Ads
Clipmint is free and shows banner ads from Google AdMob inside the app: in your history, pinboards, clip details and settings. Ads never appear in the Clipmint keyboard, the share sheet, widgets or notifications.
The ads never see what you copy. Clipmint doesn't pass your clips, images, pinboards or templates to Google, and ads can't read the screen. To show and measure ads, Google's ad software collects information such as your phone's advertising ID (on Android), IP address and approximate location, the app and device type, and how ads are seen and tapped. On iPhone, Clipmint doesn't ask to track you, so Google doesn't get your phone's advertising ID.
In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, Google asks for your consent before showing personalised ads. You can change your choice any time in Settings › Help › Ad privacy choices. On Android you can also reset or delete your advertising ID in your phone's settings. Google processes this data under its own advertising policy and privacy policy.
Optional usage stats
When you first open Clipmint you can choose to share anonymous usage stats. It's off unless you turn it on, and you can change it any time in Settings › Privacy.
If you turn it on, Clipmint uses Google's Firebase Analytics to send:
- which features are used, as fixed labels and counts: for example "a clip was saved from the keyboard", "the Call action was used", "a template with 2 blanks was filled in", "a pinboard was created";
- basic app and device details that Firebase adds, such as the app version, phone model, operating system, language and approximate country, plus a random app-install ID that Firebase creates.
It never sends the text or images you copy, pinboard names, template text, your contacts, or an advertising ID, and ad personalisation is turned off. Google processes this data under its own privacy policy. If you turn usage stats off, Clipmint stops sending them.
When Clipmint reads your clipboard
Phones only let apps read the clipboard at certain times. Clipmint reads it:
- when you open Clipmint or tap its Save button;
- when you use the Clipmint keyboard (on Android, while it's your selected keyboard, it also saves what you copy in the background);
- when you use the share sheet, the text selection menu, Shortcuts, a widget, Control Center or the Quick Settings tile to save something.
You can stop automatic saving at any time with Save what I copy in Settings.
Passwords, one-time codes and secrets
Text that a password manager marks as private (and, on Android 13 and later, anything the system marks as sensitive) is never saved. One-time codes, card numbers and secret keys (such as API keys and private keys) are hidden, left out of the keyboard, backups and exports, and deleted automatically after one hour, or after the time you choose in Settings.
The Clipmint keyboard
On iPhone the keyboard asks for Full Access, and Android warns that any keyboard can see what you type. Clipmint's keyboard uses this access only to read what you copy and to show your saved clips. It does not record what you type and does not send anything off your phone.
Face ID and fingerprint
Locked pinboards use your phone's own Face ID, Touch ID, fingerprint or passcode check. Clipmint only learns whether the check passed; it never sees your face or fingerprint data.
Backups and deleting your data
Android backups are turned off for Clipmint. Because the encryption key never leaves your phone, a phone backup restored to another phone can't open your clip history. To move your clips yourself, use Back up clips in Settings: it makes one file encrypted with a password you choose, which you save wherever you like and open with Restore from backup. One-time codes are left out. Export as Markdown or CSV makes a readable file that isn't encrypted; it leaves out one-time codes and locked pinboards. You can delete clips one by one, use Clear history in Settings, or delete the app to remove everything it stored.
Children
Clipmint is not directed to children under 13.
Paid features
Clipmint has no purchases today. If we add paid features, payments will be handled by Apple or Google, and we will update this policy first.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Questions: support@kreatorz.co.