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Dashbar runs on your Mac and collects nothing about you. This page sets out what the app reads and keeps on your Mac, the only two requests it can make, and what happens when you download it, visit this website or send an email.
Dashbar is an independent, open-source project made by Steve McKinnon. In this policy, “I” means me, Steve.
The app has no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no ads. It doesn’t send me anything, so I have no data about you to sell, share or lose. The only third-party code inside it is Sparkle, the open-source updater many Mac apps use.
The code is on GitHub, so you can check all of this.
Dashbar reads these to show them to you in the menu bar. None of it leaves your Mac.
~/.claude/sessions and ~/.claude/projects~/.codex/sessions~/.gemini/tmp, and only the status columns of the Antigravity app’s conversation list, opened read-only. If you add Dashbar to the Antigravity CLI’s status line, its plan quota and each session’s folder, model, token totals and state. Never titles, transcripts or your Google sign-in.~/Library/Preferences/fun.dashbar.app.plist.~/Library/Application Support/Dashbar: scan progress, the usage and plan history behind the History page and, for features you turn on, the status line and permission scripts and backups of the settings files they changed.~/Library/Caches/Dashbar: the latest plan reading (usage percentages, reset times and the plan name) and what a status line you added Dashbar to passed it.~/Library/Application Support/Dashbar/Permissions that only your user account can read.To remove everything, delete those folders and that file after you uninstall. brew uninstall --cask --zap dashbar removes all of them for you, along with the caches macOS keeps for the app.
Nothing, with two exceptions.
raw.githubusercontent.com) to see whether a newer version exists. The request names the app and Sparkle and their versions, like Dashbar/0.7.0 Sparkle/2.10.1. Sparkle’s optional system profile (your Mac model, macOS version and similar) is turned off, and Dashbar never asks to send it. If you install an update, it downloads from GitHub Releases. GitHub sees your IP address, as it does for any request, and its privacy statement applies.api.anthropic.com) for your plan limits at most every 5 minutes, with Claude Code’s own sign-in, which it reads from your Keychain. It keeps the sign-in in memory only, and never refreshes, stores or logs it. Anthropic’s privacy policy covers that request. The recommended way, through Claude Code’s status line, sends nothing.Links you click in the app, such as a dev server’s address, open in your browser.
The DMG is hosted on GitHub Releases, and the Homebrew cask downloads the same file. GitHub’s privacy statement covers those downloads. GitHub shows me how many times each release was downloaded and totals of the repository’s traffic, not who you are.
Homebrew has its own analytics, which may record an install as Homebrew’s analytics documentation describes. It also explains how to turn them off.
Links to GitHub and other sites take you to services with their own privacy policies.
If you email hello@usedashbar.com, Cloudflare Email Routing receives the message and forwards it to my personal inbox. I use your email only to reply to you. There is no mailing list.
Issues and discussions on GitHub are public, and GitHub’s terms cover them.
Dashbar is a tool for software developers and isn’t aimed at children. It collects nothing from anyone, children included.
The app collects nothing, so I hold nothing from it to show you, correct or delete. If you’ve emailed me and want that email deleted, or have any question about your data, email hello@usedashbar.com.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Every earlier version is in the site’s history on GitHub.