What Relic is
Your clipboard is one of the most sensitive surfaces on your computer: passwords, codes, addresses, half-written thoughts, all passing through in the clear and vanishing. Relic captures that stream, keeps it forever, makes it searchable (including the text inside screenshots, via on-device OCR), and encrypts every item on your device with XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2id before anything is stored or synced. The server only ever holds ciphertext it cannot read. Apps exist for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iPhone, and sync between them is optional.
Who builds it
Relic is built by Jordan Gibbs, its founder. Development happens in the open at github.com/RelicSync/relic under AGPL-3.0, and the writing on this site carries a real byline rather than a content team. If something on the site or in the app is wrong, there is one person to hold accountable, and you can reach him directly.
How it makes money
The free tier keeps a rolling 500 items with unlimited text. Pro is 7 dollars a month, or 5 a month billed annually, and keeps everything forever with encrypted sync. Max adds more storage and heavier AI features. Self-hosting the sync server is free, forever, on your own hardware. There are no ads, no analytics resale, and no plan to be acquired into one. Subscriptions are the whole business model, which is why the encryption is designed so that we could not read your data even if we wanted to.
Open source
The full product is open source: the desktop and mobile apps, the sync server, the crypto (Apache-2.0 for the relic_crypto package so others can reuse it), and the self-host stack. Anyone can audit exactly what leaves their machine, build from source, and verify our releases against the public tags. The press kit has the fact sheet, screenshots, and boilerplate.
Contact
Support: support@relic.space. Press: jordan@relic.space. Bugs and feature requests: GitHub issues.