TieTieYou know what's in there better than anyone.
Passwords, ID numbers, bank details, a message you haven't sent yet, an internal URL from work. A tool that remembers everything you copy should be built the conservative way, so that's how this one is built.
Four things TieTie doesn't do.
No uploads
There's no server. Nothing in your clipboard has a path off this Mac, apart from the backups you export yourself and link previews if you leave them on. Both covered below.
No account
No signup, no login, no email field. Install it and it works, offline included. We don't know who you are and don't need to.
No analytics
No event reporting, no crash uploads, nothing phoning home. We genuinely can't tell you how many people use any given feature.
No lock-in
The database is standard SQLite, sitting in your home folder. Query it, move it, open it with something else. It's yours.
Some things never get saved at all.
Not uploading isn't enough on its own. Some content shouldn't be recorded in the first place.
| Guard | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Skip private clips | Password managers like 1Password and Bitwarden mark what they copy as confidential,
using the org.nspasteboard convention that's shared across macOS apps.
TieTie sees the mark and drops the clip. |
On |
| Hide during screen sharing | On a call or while recording, the panel doesn't appear in the captured video. Nobody sees your clipboard history. | On |
| Excluded apps | Keep your own list. Anything copied from those apps gets ignored. | Empty |
| Pause capture | ⌘T or the menu bar. While paused the icon looks different, so you won't forget it's off. | — |
| Strip tracking params | utm_source, fbclid, gclid and friends get removed before the URL is saved. | Off |
| File permissions | Folders are 0700 and files are 0600, so other user accounts on the same machine can't read your clipboard. | Always |
Three ways data actually leaves.
Saying "100% local" is easy, but the phrase comes with conditions. All three of these are things you trigger yourself, and the app tells you about each one. This page just goes into more detail.
Link previews
Copy a URL and TieTie fetches its title, favicon and preview image. That's a real network request, so the other server sees your IP.
- Only the URL goes out, nothing else from your clipboard
- But if it's a single-use link, like a password reset, this request might consume it
- An internal URL tells the receiving server your company's domain
- It's on by default. You can turn it off in settings, and the first-run walkthrough asks you about it
Backup files
Export by hand in one click, or let it back up daily on a rotation. New machine, clean install, history cleared by accident — one file brings all of it back.
- The backup sits wherever you put it. TieTie never sends it anywhere
- It holds the full database and every attachment, so a restore brings back your history, categories and pins intact
- ⚠️ The file itself isn't encrypted, so where you point it matters. Choose a folder that syncs, like Dropbox or iCloud Drive, and that content goes up to the cloud too. Settings mentions this where you pick the folder
- Encrypted backups are on our list. They change the backup format, so not yet
Diagnostics bundle
If something breaks you can export a diagnostics bundle to your desktop to help report it.
- It contains no clipboard content
- It does contain the last 24 hours of logs, crash reports, and your settings
- Machine identifiers get stripped from the crash reports, since they persist across reboots and don't help with debugging
- Whether you send it to anyone is up to you. TieTie only packages it
TieTie asks for one permission.
And it works without it. Pasting just becomes "put it on the clipboard" instead.
Accessibility
It's used to paste back into the app you came from, which technically means pressing ⌘V on your behalf. macOS files "simulate a keystroke" under Accessibility, so that's the permission it needs.
Skip it and TieTie still works. Pasting just becomes "put it back on the clipboard" and you press ⌘V yourself.
What it never asks for
- No Full Disk Access
- No Contacts, Calendar or Photos
- No microphone or camera
- No location
- No network access, because it doesn't need to go online
There's no account system, because it doesn't need one.A decision, not a feature we haven't built yet
Now you know. Go ahead.
TieTie 1.0 · macOS 15 and up · one-time purchase