Clipback

Last updated November 9, 2026

Privacy Policy

Clipback has no accounts, no servers, no analytics and no tracking. What it records and creates stays on your iPhone unless you share it yourself.

Microphone audio

While listening is on, Clipback keeps the last few minutes of microphone audio in your iPhone’s memory (RAM). That buffer is constantly overwritten, is never written to storage unless you save a clip, and is erased when you stop listening. iOS shows the orange microphone indicator, and Clipback shows a Live Activity, whenever it is listening.

What is stored on your iPhone

  • Clips you save, and their transcripts, titles and tags.
  • Your settings.
  • Diagnostics: an event log and usage counts (for example, how many clips you saved and how long listening ran). The event log can include clip titles.

All of this is kept in the app’s private storage on your iPhone. We do not have a copy. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, that backup can include Clipback’s data, under Apple’s terms.

Transcripts and titles

Transcription and automatic titles run on your iPhone. Clipback requires on-device speech recognition and never sends audio to a server to be transcribed.

What Clipback does not do

  • No account or sign-in.
  • No analytics, advertising or tracking SDKs, and no tracking across apps or websites.
  • No servers: Clipback does not send your audio, clips, transcripts, diagnostics or any other data to us or to anyone else.

When data leaves your iPhone

Only when you choose to share it, using the iOS share sheet: for example, sharing a clip, or sending a diagnostics report from Settings › About. You decide where it goes.

Purchases

Clipback Pro and the free 7-Day Trial are in-app purchases handled by Apple through the App Store. Clipback checks your purchases with Apple using StoreKit. We never see your payment details.

Deleting your data

Deleting a clip moves it to Trash, where it stays for 30 days so you can restore it, and is then deleted for good. Emptying Trash deletes those clips immediately. Deleting the app removes all clips, transcripts, titles, tags, settings and diagnostics from your iPhone.

Recording laws

You are responsible for following the recording and consent laws where you are. Many places require everyone in a private conversation to agree before it is recorded.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.

Contact

Clipback is made by Sand & Signal Studios LLC, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Questions about privacy: