Privacy Policy

What we collect

Nothing. Drops does not collect, store on any server, or transmit any information about you or your usage.

The app has no backend, no database, and no user accounts. There is no data to collect because there is no mechanism to receive it.

Permissions

Mouse clicks are detected using NSEvent.addGlobalMonitorForEvents, a standard macOS API that requires no special permissions or user authorisation.

The modifier key overlay feature — which shows a floating label when you hold Command, Shift, Option, or Control — optionally requests Input Monitoring access. This permission is entirely optional. If you skip it, every other feature in Drops continues to work normally. Only the modifier key overlay will not appear.

If Input Monitoring is granted, Drops uses it solely to detect when modifier keys are held. It does not:

• Read what application or element you clicked on
• Record cursor coordinates or movement paths
• Log keystrokes, key content, or typing of any kind
• Capture any content visible on your screen

All event data is consumed entirely within the app process and discarded immediately after the animation or overlay is triggered. Nothing is written to disk or transmitted anywhere.

Network requests

Drops makes zero network requests. There are no analytics pings, no telemetry, no update checks, no licence validations, and no connections to any external server of any kind.

You can verify this with any network monitoring tool. The app will produce no outbound traffic beyond what macOS itself initiates.

Analytics and crash reporting

Drops contains no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, and no third-party tracking library of any kind. We have no visibility into how often the app is used, which features are enabled, or whether it has ever crashed on your device.

This is a deliberate choice. We believe a utility that monitors input should be beyond reproach on privacy.

Settings and preferences

Your chosen ripple style, color, intensity, and toggle states are stored locally in macOS user defaults (the standard system preference store for Mac apps). This data never leaves your Mac and is not accessible to any other application or service.

Purchases

Drops is a one-time $1.99 purchase with no in-app purchases or subscriptions. All payment processing is handled entirely by Apple through the Mac App Store. Drops itself never receives or handles any payment data.

Children

Because Drops collects no personal data, there are no special privacy considerations for users under 13. The app is rated 4+ on the Mac App Store. No data is collected from any user, regardless of age.

Data deletion

Since Drops stores nothing beyond your local preferences, there is no "delete my data" process. Uninstalling the app removes all associated preference files from your Mac. There is no server-side data to request deletion of.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes in a meaningful way, this page will be updated with a new date at the top. We will never retroactively introduce data collection without clear, explicit notice in an app update.