Privacy Policy

The short version: Glance collects nothing. It has no accounts, no analytics and no network access. Your screenshots never leave your Mac unless you paste or save them somewhere yourself.

The Glance app

Data we collect

None. Glance does not collect, store, transmit or share any personal data, usage data, diagnostics or identifiers. It contains no third-party SDKs, analytics or advertising code, and it does not track you.

Your screenshots

Screenshots only ever exist in places you control:

• In memory. Recent Captures (your last 10 screenshots) are kept in memory only, never written to disk, and erased when you quit Glance or choose Clear History.
• On your clipboard, when you choose Copy.
• In a folder you choose, when you choose Save — Downloads by default, or any folder you pick in Settings.

Permissions

• Screen Recording — required by macOS to capture your screen. Glance only captures when you start a capture.
• Files — Glance runs in the macOS App Sandbox and can only write to Downloads and the save folder you select yourself.

Settings

Your preferences (shortcuts, background style, save folder) are stored locally on your Mac using standard macOS user defaults. They are never sent anywhere.

Network access

Glance never connects to the internet. In the version downloaded from this website, “Check for Updates…” simply opens the Glance releases page on GitHub in your web browser.

This website

This website does not use cookies, analytics or tracking. Your light/dark theme choice is stored in your browser’s local storage and never leaves your device. Like any website, our hosting provider processes standard technical data (such as IP address and browser type) to deliver pages and protect against abuse.

The Glance download is served by GitHub. When you download it, GitHub’s privacy statement applies to that request.

Children

Glance does not collect data from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above. Because Glance collects no data, changes are unlikely to affect you.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Open an issue on GitHub or see the Support page.