Privacy
What happens to your files, your text and your email address, in plain words. The short answer is that almost nothing reaches us at all.
Last updated October 5, 2026
The short version
There is no account, no login and no profile. The tools on this website run inside your browser, and the Mac app runs on your Mac. We do not collect, store or sell what you put into them.
Two things do involve us: aggregate visit counts for the website, and your email address if you choose to give it to us. Both are described below, and neither is shared with anyone.
What the website does with your files and text
Nothing leaves your browser. Images, audio, video, documents and text are processed by code running on your own device, including the AI tools: their models are downloaded to your browser and run there. There is no upload step, and no server of ours ever receives the content.
Anything a tool remembers between visits (a draft, a preference, a downloaded model) lives in your browser's own storage on your device. Clearing site data removes it.
Two tools need one outside request each, and neither one carries your content: the currency converter and the math notepad's currency lines ask Coinbase's public endpoint for today's exchange rates.
Visit measurement
We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to count visits, referrers and page views. It sets no cookies, builds no profile across sites, and gives us aggregate numbers only. We do not run Google Analytics, advertising pixels, session recording or A/B testing scripts.
Because the site is served through Cloudflare, ordinary web-server data (IP address, user agent, the URL requested) is processed to deliver the page and to block abuse, and is retained by Cloudflare for a short period under their terms.
The newsletter
If you enter your email address in one of the signup forms, we store that address, the date, and which form you used, so we can send you what you asked for. It is a double opt-in list: nothing is sent until you confirm from the email we send you.
The list is held by PocketWebTools and lives in our own database on Cloudflare, and the mail goes out through Cloudflare's Email Service. We do not sell, rent or share the addresses, and every email carries an unsubscribe link. Ask us to delete your address and we will, in full.
The Mac app
Chats, audio, transcripts, photos and documents stay on your Mac: PocketWebTools for Mac never sends them, their names or their contents anywhere. It does report anonymous usage data (which tool ran and whether it worked) so we can find and fix failures. That carries no license key and no id for you or your Mac, and one switch in Settings turns it off.
It makes exactly the network calls listed below, and nothing else. Turn Wi-Fi off after a model has downloaded and everything keeps working.
What the app keeps on your Mac
Models you download live in Application Support until you delete them. The app also keeps a run history there so a past run can be reopened: for the tools that produce text (transcripts, extracted pages, the text you asked Speak to read) that history contains the text itself. Those files are written so that only your macOS user account can read them, exported files are referenced by path rather than copied, and the License screen shows how much space the history uses and clears all of it in one click.
Recordings you make in the app stay in its cache folder on your Mac. Transcribe keeps your five newest microphone recordings. The editor keeps each camera or microphone take with its edit while that edit is one of your 10 most recent; those takes are readable only by your user account and are deleted when you clear the history.
A license key, once activated, is stored in the same folder, readable only by your user account.
Children
The tools are general-purpose utilities and are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children, beyond an email address someone chooses to give us.
Changes and contact
This page changes when the product does, and the date at the top says when it last did. Questions, or a deletion request: support@pocketweb.tools.
Every network call the Mac app makes
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License activation and checks
When you enter your key, the app registers this Mac with Polar (our payment provider). That request carries the key, a device label (your Mac's name and chip), a hashed hardware id (never the raw one), the app version and the macOS version. After that, at most once a day while the app is open, it asks Polar whether the key is still valid, sending only the key and this Mac's activation id. Chatting with a model already on your Mac never checks the license.
- 2
Updates
On launch the app asks pocketweb.tools whether a newer version exists. It sends the version you are running and your Mac's chip architecture, nothing else: the app and its updates are free, so no license travels with this one. Every update is checked against a signature before it installs.
- 3
Model downloads
When you choose a model, the weights download from pocketweb.tools to your Mac once, verified against a checksum. The request names the file you asked for and carries your license key, activation id and the same hashed hardware id, which the server checks with Polar before sending it. Three things are never downloaded because they are small enough to ship inside the app: the word counter's keyword model, the GPT token vocabulary and the video editor's pause detector.
- 4
Exchange rates
If you open the currency converter, or write a currency line in the math notepad, the app asks Coinbase's public endpoint for today's rates. The request carries no key, no identifier and nothing you typed. No other tool touches the network.
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Anonymous usage data
So we can tell which tools work and which fail, the app reports how each run ended: the screen, the kind of run, the model, whether it finished, failed or was stopped, the kind of error (never its text), how long it took, and your app version, macOS version, chip and memory size. It carries no license key and no id for you or this Mac, so a report cannot be tied to a buyer. It is on by default, and one switch in Settings turns it off.
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Reports you send
If you press Report an issue or Send feedback, the app sends what you wrote, your reply address if you gave one, and the facts the dialog lists before you send: app version, macOS version, chip, memory size, the screen you were on, the chat model loaded and, if you leave its box ticked, the last error the app showed. It goes to our support inbox and nowhere else.
Nothing else. Your files, chats, transcripts and recordings never leave your Mac.