Privacy

The Fold app does not collect anything about you. The app has no account, no analytics, no telemetry, and no crash reporting. This website does use Google Analytics 4, as the sentence below explains. This page explains what the app does instead, in enough detail that you could verify it yourself.

We use Google Analytics 4 to measure which pages are visited. It stays off when your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal.

What Fold stores, and where

Fold reads your Mac's own state — which items are in your menu bar, and how busy the machine is — so it can show it back to you. All of it stays on your Mac, in two places: the app's preferences, and a history file at ~/Library/Application Support/Fold holding up to twenty-four hours of resource readings so the charts have something to draw.

None of it is transmitted anywhere. Deleting the app and that folder removes everything Fold has ever kept.

The one network request

Fold contacts exactly one server, api.ipify.org, and only when you tap "Public IP" on the Network panel. It exists because your public IP address cannot be discovered from your own machine — something outside your network has to tell you what it sees.

That request sends no identifier, no account, and no information about you or your Mac beyond what any web request unavoidably reveals: the connection it arrives on. It uses a throwaway session with cookies, caching and stored credentials all disabled, so nothing about it persists afterwards. If you never tap the button, Fold never touches the network at all.

Permissions Fold asks for

• Accessibility — required. Moving another app's menu-bar item is something only the Accessibility API can do, and it is the whole function of the app. Fold uses it to read the position of menu-bar items and to move them. It does not read window contents, keystrokes, or anything typed.
• Bluetooth — optional, and only if you open the Bluetooth panel. Fold reads the names and connection status of devices already paired with your Mac. It does not pair, connect, or transfer anything.

Fold does not ask for Location, Contacts, Calendar, Photos, Microphone, Camera, Full Disk Access, or Screen Recording, and does not function as a keylogger or screen reader.

Payment

If you buy Fold, the payment is handled by our payment processor, who receives the details needed to take the payment and issue a receipt. Fold — the app on your Mac — is not involved in that and never sees your payment information.

Children

Fold is a utility for Mac users and is not directed at children. It collects nothing from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Because the app collects nothing, any change here would mean a change in the app — and that would be described in the release notes too.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything Fold does on your Mac: [email protected].