Common questions

Yes. The app, the sync server and the code that seals your data are all public, so you can read what runs and build it yourself. Most of it is under the AGPL, and the encryption package is under Apache-2.0 so it can be reused with no strings. The repository is github.com/RelicSync/relic.

Because it keeps the source open for anyone who runs Relic as a service: their users get the code too. Everything you need to check what happens to your data is in the open either way. The one piece most people want to reuse, the encryption package, is deliberately under a licence with no strings.

Windows keeps about 25 items and empties itself when you restart. A phone keyboard keeps a few for a short while. Relic keeps what you copy for as long as you want it, on every device you use, and lets you search it by word, by date, by meaning, or by the text inside a screenshot.

Your vault is a database file on your own computer, and sync is a layer on top of it. If every Relic server went away tonight, the app would keep working on your devices, you could export everything, and you could point the same app at a server you run yourself. Nothing asks us for permission to keep running.

Hosted sync. The free plan costs nothing, and the paid plans pay for the servers that pass your sealed data between your devices. Running your own server is free and uses the same code as the hosted one.

On a computer, nearly. Copies from apps on your never-capture list are ignored, and so are copies that an app marks as confidential, which is how a well behaved password manager stays out of your history. You can also pause capture from the tray menu whenever you want, and delete any item afterwards.

Relic spots things that look like passwords, keys, tokens and card numbers, and hides them behind dots in the list until you choose to reveal one. When you copy a secret back out, your clipboard is cleared 30 seconds later unless you have copied something else since. Both of those are on by default.

No. Everything is sealed on your device with a key made from your vault passphrase, and we never receive the passphrase or the key. The server holds sealed blocks it cannot open. It does see the ordinary delivery details any server sees, such as when something arrived and how big it is.

It would be if the store were left in the clear. The vault is encrypted on disk, secrets are detected and masked, apps you name are never captured, and a copied secret is wiped from the clipboard after half a minute. You can delete a single item, or clear the whole history, at any time.

You can check it rather than trust it. The code that seals your data is public, the format it produces is written down in the repository, and the Dart, Rust and JavaScript versions are tested against each other so they agree byte for byte. The server code that only ever handles sealed data is in the same repository.

Your recovery kit opens the vault and lets you set a new passphrase. If both the passphrase and the kit are gone, nobody can get the data back, and that includes us. A service that can reset your data can also read it, which is why the app makes you save the kit during setup.

As long as you still know your passphrase, nothing is lost. Open Security in Settings, view your recovery kit again, and save a fresh copy somewhere safe. Do that before you need it: with neither the passphrase nor the kit, the vault cannot be opened by anyone.

No. The models run on your own machine, so the text pulled out of screenshots, the tags, the titles and the search index all stay there. You can turn each part off in Settings, and remove the downloaded models to get the disk space back.

Clear all history in Settings removes every unsaved item from this computer and your synced devices, and keeps what you saved to the Vault. Single items can be deleted from the list at any time. Delete account, also in Settings, removes your synced vault and your account from our servers for good and leaves the local history on your devices alone.

Yes. Everything you have is already on your device, so searching, pasting and editing all work with no connection. Anything you change while offline waits in a queue and syncs the next time you are online.

Phones do not let an app watch the clipboard in the background. Android has blocked that since Android 10, and an iPhone has no background loop and asks before any app reads the pasteboard. So on a phone you send things to Relic yourself: the share sheet, a photo or file picker, a Quick Settings tile on Android, or a shortcut you bind to a gesture on an iPhone.

Install Relic on the new machine, sign in to the same account, and unlock the vault with your passphrase or your recovery kit. Your items sync down on their own. The quickest way is Add a device on a computer you already use, which shows a QR code for the new one to scan.

Yes. There is a small command line tool called relic that reads and writes the vault on your own computer, so an agent or a script can search it, add items, tag them and read them back. It only touches the local database, so no keys and no network are involved, and you decide what an agent is allowed to run.

No. Relic captures, searches and pastes on one computer with nothing connected. Signing in is what lets your devices see each other's items, and pointing the app at your own server does the same job without an account here.

Yes. The free plan gives you automatic capture, search, sync between your devices, the AI that runs on your own machine, and the same encryption everyone else gets. The paid plans add room: bigger items, more storage, more saved items and more devices. The plans page lists every number.

Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone, plus a vault you can open in any browser. On Windows you can install it from a terminal with winget install relic. Automatic capture and the global shortcuts are a desktop thing; on a phone the app is a viewer you add things to by hand.

The free plan keeps a rolling window of recent history and a limited number of saved items, and it drops the oldest history once you pass the window. On a paid plan history stops expiring, you choose how much to keep, and you can save as many items as your storage allows. The plans page has the exact numbers.

Yes. The sync server is public and starts from one Docker command on a spare machine, a NAS or a Raspberry Pi. It has no account and no limits, and it is the same code the hosted service runs, so the apps connect to it the same way.

The Linux app is a full release, and capture, search and sync work on both X11 and Wayland. On Wayland the desktop refuses to hand any app a global shortcut or let it press keys for you, so the hotkey and paste-back are unavailable there. Relic says so in the app rather than failing quietly.