Your clipboard stays yours.

The xcv app

xcv is a clipboard manager for macOS. It records what you copy so you can find it and paste it again later.

What xcv stores

• The text, links, images, files and colours you copy, with the name of the app you copied them from and the time.
• Your settings, such as shortcuts, how long to keep history, excluded apps and where the island appears.
• The date you first opened xcv, so it can count the 14-day trial.

All of this is stored only on your Mac, inside xcv's own sandboxed app container (~/Library/Containers/com.rymcol.xcv). None of it is uploaded, synced or shared, and none of it is ever sent to me.

What xcv does not do

• No network access. xcv runs in the macOS App Sandbox without the network entitlement, so it cannot connect to the internet or send data anywhere.
• No accounts, analytics, advertising, crash reporting or tracking. xcv contains no third-party code or SDKs.
• No sensitive items. Content that password managers mark as concealed or transient is never recorded. You can also exclude any app in Settings › Privacy, and pause recording at any time.

Trial and purchases

xcv is free to download and includes a 14-day trial of every feature. The trial is counted on your Mac's own clock; there is no server and no account.

The optional one-time “Unlock xcv” purchase is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Apple processes the payment under Apple's privacy policy. xcv only learns whether the purchase exists on your Apple Account, which macOS tells it locally. I never receive your name, email address, payment details or purchase history.

Permissions

• Accessibility (optional) lets xcv press ⌘V for you, so a card pastes straight into the app you were using. Without it, xcv puts the item on the clipboard and you paste it yourself. xcv never uses this permission to read your screen or the contents of other apps.
• Clipboard access (macOS 15.4 and later): macOS asks before an app reads the clipboard in the background. xcv needs this to record your history.

Your control

• Choose how long history is kept and how many items to keep in Settings › General.
• Clear History in the menu bar removes everything except pinned items.
• To remove everything, quit xcv, delete the app, then delete ~/Library/Containers/com.rymcol.xcv. Nothing remains anywhere else, because nothing was ever stored anywhere else.

This website

xcv.rycollins.com is a plain static website. It:

• sets no cookies and uses no local storage;
• runs no analytics, tracking pixels, advertising or JavaScript;
• loads nothing from third parties: no web fonts, no CDNs, no embedded videos, no external images. Every file comes from this site. A Content Security Policy enforces this in your browser.

The site is served from my own server, which is set to keep no access logs: your visit isn't recorded there. It reaches you through Cloudflare, which sits in front of the server to provide HTTPS and protect it from abuse. To do that, Cloudflare processes technical request data such as your IP address and browser type, and may ask your browser to report network errors to it. I don't use Cloudflare's analytics or add any of its scripts. See the Cloudflare Privacy Policy for details.

Email support

If you email support@xcv.rycollins.com, I receive only what you choose to send: your email address and your message. I use it only to reply to you. I never share it, never add you to a mailing list, and will delete our conversation on request.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. If a change ever meant xcv collected something it doesn't collect today, the app would ask before doing so.

Questions about privacy: support@xcv.rycollins.com. xcv is made by Ryan Collins.