Privacy policy

Last updated: 10 November 2026

Menubuddies collects no data about you. It sends nothing anywhere. This page says what that means, in plain words.

The app

  • The app has no account, no sign-in and no network code of its own. It makes no connections to any server, ours or anyone else's, and it runs in the macOS App Sandbox without the network entitlement, so macOS would not let it.
  • It reads your Mac's CPU, memory, storage, battery and network speed counters from macOS, only to draw them in the menu bar and its menus. The readings are not stored or sent, except the battery charge described below. The network speed comes from the byte counters of your network interfaces; the app never sees what is sent or received.
  • It keeps two things on your Mac: your settings (such as the character, the outfit and whether the numbers show), and the last 12 hours of battery charge (percent and whether the Mac was plugged in) for the battery menu's chart. Nothing leaves your Mac. Delete the app and its data folder to remove them.
  • It has no analytics and no advertising, and it never reports crashes by itself. If it quit unexpectedly, the next time it starts it may offer to email a crash report: your mail app opens with the report, which holds the app and macOS versions and where the app stopped, nothing about you. It is sent only if you send it, and you can tick “Don’t ask again”. If you share analytics with app developers in macOS (System Settings, Privacy & Security, Analytics & Improvements), Apple also sends us crash reports without your name; that is Apple’s setting, not the app’s.
  • It does not ask for permissions to your files, contacts, location, camera or microphone.

Purchases

The optional unlock is an in-app purchase through the Mac App Store (Apple's StoreKit). Apple handles the payment, the receipt, refunds and restoring the unlock on another Mac. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account, and we get no list of buyers. Apple's own privacy policy covers what Apple does with that purchase.

This website

  • No analytics, no cookies, no tracking pixels, no forms, no sign-up and no mailing list.
  • Everything loads from this site only: the fonts, the images and the scripts. No third-party requests.
  • The demos on the home page run in your browser with sample values. They read nothing from your computer and send nothing.
  • Our host serves the pages and, like any web server, may keep short-lived technical logs (such as your IP address and the page requested) to run and protect the service. We do not use them to identify or follow you.
  • The links to the Mac App Store leave this site. Apple's policy applies there.

Email

If you write to support@menubuddies.app, or send a crash report or feedback from the app, we get your address and your message, and we use them only to reply and to fix the app. We do not add you to any list or share them.

Children

The app and the site collect nothing from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this ever changes, the date above changes and this page says what changed, before the change ships.