Privacy

Short version: no accounts, no telemetry, your keys stay on your Mac.

What MacBar does not do

No user accounts or logins
No analytics SDKs or crash-reporting services built into the app
No advertising identifiers
No selling of personal data

What stays on your device

Live CPU, temperature, memory, battery, and related stats are read locally from macOS
AI API keys (when you use Chat) are stored with the system Keychain; beta builds encrypt chat history at rest (AES-256-GCM)
Preferences and thresholds stay in your user account on this Mac

Network requests

Updates — the app checks https://chopstickshq.com/macbar/version.json on launch
Optional BTC price — CoinGecko public API when that menu bar slot is enabled
AI Chat — only when you send a message, using your provider key to that provider (OpenAI, OpenRouter, etc.). We do not proxy chat through MacBar servers unless you use the website support widget
Website support chat (optional) — if enabled on the download site, messages go through a Netlify function to an AI provider configured by the site owner

Website

The download site is a static page hosted on Netlify. Standard host logs (IP, user-agent) may be collected by Netlify for operations and abuse prevention. We do not run third-party ad trackers on the MacBar pages.

Contact

Questions: use Support on the download page (redirects to a GitHub issue) or open a new issue.

This page describes the open-source MacBar apps and website as shipped. Third-party AI providers have their own privacy policies.

Also see Terms & Conditions and FAQ.