Cleat Privacy and data
What Cleat stores, where each file lives in your home folder, what it never records, and the one request it makes over the network. No account, no server, no analytics.
Cleat has no account, no server and no analytics. It is a native app that reads and writes files in your home folder.
What is stored
- Clipboard history, usage counts, aliases and row hotkeys, in a SQLite file under
~/Library/Application Support/Cleat. - Clipboard images, as files next to it.
- Commands, snippets and quicklinks, as plain files under
~/.config/cleat. - Preferences, in the standard preferences plist.
You can open, back up, copy or delete every one of these.
What is not stored
Keystrokes. Snippet expansion watches for keywords and keeps nothing. Copies from password managers and concealed pasteboard items are never recorded.
Network
Once a day Cleat asks the update feed at getcleat.app whether a new version exists. That request carries the app version and the macOS version, the same as any Sparkle-updated app. You can turn the check off in Settings. Nothing else on the network is Cleat’s; the currency command talks to the European Central Bank because you ran it, and quicklinks open your browser.
Apple Intelligence and translation
Both run on the Mac through Apple’s frameworks. Cleat never sends text anywhere.
Permissions
Each permission is requested when the feature that needs it is used, never before. See Requirements and permissions.