Privacy and security
Clips is a clipboard manager, which means at some point it will see a password. This section is how that is handled.
🔒 The database is encrypted
Clips live in an encrypted SQLite database. The key is generated on your Mac, stored in your macOS Keychain, and never leaves the machine. Copying the database file elsewhere gets someone an unreadable blob.
🛡️ Password managers are skipped
Password managers mark what they copy as concealed. TypeFire honors that marking and does not store those copies at all.
⏱️ Secrets expire fast
Card numbers and high-entropy strings are detected and deleted after 5 minutes by default, adjustable in Settings.
🚫 Blocked apps
Copies from Keychain Access, 1Password, Bitwarden and similar are never captured. Add your own under Settings → Clips → Never capture from, either from the list of apps Clips has already seen or by browsing to any app. Each one can block everything, or just images.
🖼️ Images are optional
A screenshot carries far more than the part you meant to copy. Capture images in Settings turns off screenshots and copied pictures while keeping text. Images already saved stay where they are. Underneath it, Save screenshots to Clips covers the screenshots you save as a file rather than to the clipboard.
There is no TypeFire server and no telemetry on clip contents. The database and its image blobs are stored with owner-only file permissions. Clips leave your Mac only if you turn on iCloud sync yourself, and then they travel through your own iCloud Drive rather than through us.
Blocking by app is a good guess rather than a guarantee. macOS has no way to tell an app which app wrote to the clipboard, so TypeFire matches on the app that was in front at the time, plus any app that identifies itself. The protection that does not depend on guessing is the concealed marker: password managers set it on what they copy, and those copies are never stored whatever the blocklist says.
A screenshot you save as a file is a weaker case again. Nothing in the file records what was on screen, so TypeFire works out when it was taken and matches that against what you were using at the time. It is right in the ordinary case and it is not something to rely on. If you need a blocked app kept out of your clips completely, turn Save screenshots to Clips off.
None of this is a substitute for a password manager. The protections above reduce exposure; they do not make a clipboard history a safe place for secrets. If you copy something you would not want recovered, delete the clip, or use Delete all except pinned.
Documentation for TypeFire 5.1.0. Updated 2026-09-15.