Privacy
Last updated 3 November 2026
- Synclip keeps what you put in your clipboard so your devices can get it, and nothing about you that it doesn't need.
- There are no ads, no tracking and no analytics, and nothing is sold.
- New clips are read by an AI (Google's Gemini) to sort them, name them and suggest how long to keep them.
- Clips go when they expire, and you can delete one, or your whole clipboard, at any time.
Who runs Synclip
Synclip is run by Stephen McInerney. Questions about your data go to support@synclip.io. The rules for using Synclip are in the terms.
What Synclip keeps
- Your clips. The text, links, photos, files and voice notes you add, with any notes and reminders on them, and the folders and labels the AI gives them. They are stored on Synclip's server, encrypted with a key that belongs to your clipboard. The server decrypts them to send them to your devices and to sort them, so this is not end-to-end encryption.
- Your name and email address, given when you create a clipboard, and whether you have confirmed the address. The email gets a code when you sign up or sign in, an alert when a device signs in with one, and a warning before an unused Free clipboard is deleted.
- Your email on the waitlist, if Synclip is full when you sign up, so it can invite you when there's room.
- How you sign in. A code sent to your email, kept only in scrambled form for 10 minutes, and for each passkey only its public half (the private half stays in your device or iCloud Keychain).
- Your signed-in devices. For each one, a sign-in token, the kind of device or browser, the IP address it signed in from, and when, so you can see them in Settings and sign them out.
- Addresses you share clips to by email, so they can be suggested next time.
- A notification token, if you turn notifications on. Apple's (in the app) or your browser's, so Synclip can tell that device when something arrives or a reminder is due.
- Shared links you make, until they expire.
- Your Plus subscription, if you buy one. Apple takes the payment, so Synclip never sees your card or your Apple Account. It keeps what Apple tells it about the subscription: its transaction numbers, when the paid month ends and whether it will renew, so your clipboard has Plus while you pay. It goes when your clipboard is deleted.
- Counts, not content: how many clips were sorted each day, how much space your files take and how much you uploaded today, for your plan's limits.
- Failed sign-in attempts and new clipboards: the IP address and time, to stop people guessing codes or making clipboards in bulk.
- Reports of share links. If you report a link: the reason, what you write, your email if you give it, and your IP address. If a link of yours is reported, the report is kept with your clipboard's number.
Synclip doesn't keep your location, your contacts, or anything from your device beyond what you choose to add.
The AI
When a clip arrives, Synclip sends it to Google's Gemini API to sort it into a folder, give it a short title, suggest how long to keep it and notice dates for reminders. For text, that's the text; for photos up to a few megabytes and voice notes, the file itself (voice notes are also written out as text); for other files, the file name and your note. Google returns the result and Synclip stores it with the clip. Google's handling of what it receives is set by the Gemini API terms.
Google refuses some content outright as prohibited, a category that includes child sexual abuse material. When it refuses a clip, Synclip takes the clip out of your clipboard, stops any link to it, and keeps it for review, as the terms describe.
Who else is involved
- Hostinger runs the server where your clipboard is stored.
- Google sorts new clips (above). The website also loads its font from Google Fonts, and a clip with a YouTube link shows YouTube's own player.
- Cloudflare (cdnjs) serves the website's icons and code highlighting, and unpkg the QR scanner the website uses when you scan a code.
- Apple delivers the app's notifications, keeps your passkeys in iCloud Keychain, and takes the payment for Plus.
Like any website, these see the IP address of the device asking. Synclip shares nothing else with anyone, and never sells or rents your data.
How long things stay
- A clip lasts as long as you choose when you add it (a day, a week, a month or for good), or what the AI suggests. On the Free plan a file is kept a week at most. When a clip expires or you delete it, it waits 30 days in Recently deleted, where you can bring it back, and is then erased with its file. You can erase it sooner from Recently deleted.
- A Free clipboard nobody has used for 90 days is deleted with everything in it, after an email a week before.
- A sign-in lasts up to 30 days in a browser and up to a year in the app, unless you sign that device out first.
- Shared links are erased when they expire, and failed sign-in attempts after a day. Reports are kept for a year, and waitlist emails until you're invited and for a year at most.
- Delete clipboard in Settings erases every clip, file, shared link and sign-in at once.
- Backups of the server are kept for a limited time and then replaced, so erased data can take a few weeks to leave them.
Cookies and storage
Synclip uses one cookie to keep you signed in, and your browser's storage for preferences such as the theme. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.
Your rights
You can see, copy and delete everything in your clipboard yourself. You can also ask for a copy of what Synclip holds about you, or for anything to be corrected or erased, by writing to support@synclip.io. If you're in the EU or the UK you can also complain to your data protection authority.
Children
Synclip isn't meant for children under 13.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top will change with it. A change that affects what Synclip keeps or who it shares it with will also be shown in the app.