Privacy

Your clipboard stays yours

Last updated 22 May 2026

mnml is a local-first clipboard manager for Windows. The short version: what you copy lives on your own computer, in a local database. mnml has no servers that receive your clipboard, no user accounts, no analytics, and no third-party trackers. This page spells out exactly what is stored, what stays local, and the few things that touch the network.

What mnml stores, and where

Your clipboard history, saved snippets, and settings are stored locally in an SQLite database, by default at %APPDATA%\mnml\mnml.sqlite, with captured images as PNG files in %APPDATA%\mnml\images\. This data never leaves your machine on its own. You can wipe it any time with Clear history in Settings, or by deleting those paths.

What mnml never records

mnml honors the Windows "do not record" clipboard markers. Content that a password manager (1Password, KeePass, Bitwarden) or a browser password field marks as sensitive is skipped entirely. It is never read into memory, never stored, and never synced. Turning off Monitor clipboard in Settings stops all capture.

What touches the network

mnml makes a small, fixed set of outbound requests. None of them carry your clipboard contents, and none are used for tracking or advertising:

• Update check. About once a day, mnml asks the update server whether a newer version exists. This is a normal web request (your IP address and basic headers are visible to the host, as with any download). No personal data or clipboard content is sent.
• Favicons for links. When a link is shown in your history, mnml fetches that site's small icon from Google's public favicon service. This means the domain of links you copy (for example example.com, not the full URL) is sent to Google to retrieve the icon.
• Link titles. When you copy a URL, mnml fetches that page to read its title, so the entry reads as a real name instead of a raw link. That means mnml briefly visits the address you copied. Requests to private or local network addresses are blocked.

Both link lookups only happen for content that is actually captured, so anything excluded by the sensitive-content rule above never triggers a request. Switching off clipboard monitoring stops them too.

Optional folder sync

mnml can store its data folder inside a service you already use, such as Dropbox, OneDrive, or iCloud Drive, so your clipboard follows you across your own devices. If you turn this on, your data is synced by that provider under their terms and privacy policy. mnml itself still never receives or transmits it; the files simply live in a folder that your chosen service happens to sync. This is off by default.

This website

The site you are reading (mnml.nxyz.art) is a static page hosted on Vercel. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads no third-party trackers. Vercel, like any web host, keeps standard server access logs (such as IP address and user agent) for security and operations. The download links serve the installer directly.

What mnml does not do

• No user accounts or sign-in.
• No telemetry, usage analytics, or crash reporting sent off-device.
• No advertising, no third-party marketing SDKs.
• No selling, renting, or sharing of any data. There is nothing to sell: the data stays on your machine.

Changes to this policy

If mnml's data practices change, this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it. Material changes will be noted in the changelog.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else: info@nxyz.art. The full source is public at github.com/syfpsy/mnml, so you can verify any of the above yourself.