Privacy policy
Horologe for macOS · com.tryhorologe.app · last updated 18 August 2026
Horologe collects no data about you. None. Not anonymised, not aggregated, not "only for diagnostics". There is no code in the app that could send anything anywhere, because the app has no networking in it at all.
What we collect
Nothing. Horologe does not collect, store, transmit, sell or share any personal information, usage data, diagnostics, identifiers or content of any kind. The App Store privacy label this app carries is Data Not Collected, which is the literal state of the binary rather than a promise about how we intend to behave.
The internet
The app makes no network requests. It ships without the network entitlement, so even if something in it tried, the system would refuse. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no attribution or advertising library, no update ping and no licence check. On an air-gapped Mac it works exactly as it does on a connected one, which is the plainest test of this whole page.
Accounts
There is no account. No sign-in, no email address to hand over, no profile, no subscription, no server holding anything of yours. You buy the app once and it is yours.
Permissions
Horologe asks for no permissions, now or later: no Accessibility, no Input Monitoring, no Screen Recording, no microphone, no camera, no contacts, no calendar, no location, no photo library, no notifications and no Full Disk Access. It runs in Apple's App Sandbox with no file access and no network access. It reads the clock your Mac already keeps, and that is the extent of what it looks at.
What is stored on your Mac
Your settings — which bell, which face, the volume, the quiet hours, the desktop clock's
size — are kept in standard macOS preferences under com.tryhorologe.app, on
your own machine. Nothing else is written. If you use iCloud to back up or migrate your
Mac, those preferences travel with your own backup under Apple's terms; they never come to
us, because there is no "us" for them to go to. Delete the app and the preferences go with
it.
Children
The app is rated 4+ and is safe for any age. Since it collects nothing from anyone, it collects nothing from children either.
Payment
If you buy Horologe from the Mac App Store, Apple takes the payment and handles refunds. We never see a card number, a billing address or your name. Apple's own privacy policy covers that transaction.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever gains a feature that touches the network, this page will say so plainly and in advance, with a date on it. As long as it says what it says today, nothing leaves your Mac.
Contact
Questions about privacy, or anything else, go to [email protected]. That's a mailbox, read by the person who wrote the app.