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Keep secrets out of your history

A clipboard history is wonderful — until it quietly remembers the password you copied from your vault. Hutchlet handles that for you.

It mostly just works

When you copy something that looks like a password, API key, private key, JWT, or card number, Hutchlet detects it on-device and stores it as an encrypted secret instead of plain history. It also honours apps that mark content as confidential, so a password manager’s copy is treated as a secret automatically.

1. Copy as usual

   Grab a credential from your password manager or a config file.

2. See it masked

   In the panel it shows as ab••••yz with its length and type — never the plaintext.

3. Reveal only when needed

   Reveal or Paste prompts for Touch ID first. It’s never in search, so it won’t surface while you’re looking for something else.

Good habits

• Use the generator’s auto-clear when you only need a password once.
• Keep recurring credentials as secret snippets — encrypted and masked, but a click away.
• Clearing history with Remove unpinned items never exposes secrets — they were never in plain history to begin with.

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