Privacy

Last updated 20 August 2026

The short version: FetchBar has no backend, no account and no telemetry. Nothing about you, your repositories or your usage is collected, transmitted to us, or stored anywhere but on your own Mac.

What the app stores, and where

FetchBar keeps two JSON files in ~/Library/Application Support/FetchBar/: the list of repositories you added, and a cache of the last check for each of them. Settings live in macOS user defaults. Delete those files and FetchBar starts empty. Nothing is stored anywhere else, and nothing is encrypted-and-uploaded, because there is nowhere to upload it to.

What the app sends over the network

• Your own git remotes. Checks run the git binary on your machine against the remotes your repositories already point at, using your existing SSH keys, ssh-agent and credential helpers. Those requests go to your git host (GitHub, GitLab, your own server) exactly as they would from your terminal. We never see them.
• An update check. Once a day FetchBar asks GitHub for a small file listing the latest version. That request tells GitHub your IP address and the app's user agent, as any download would. You can turn automatic checks off in Settings → About, and the app keeps working.

That is the complete list. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no advertising identifier and no A/B testing.

What this website collects

This site uses Google Analytics to learn which pages are read, roughly where visitors come from and what they arrived on, so we know whether the words are doing their job. Google sets a cookie for it and receives the usual page-view data; it does not receive your IP address in a stored form (Analytics 4 drops it) and we send it nothing about you by name. A content blocker or your browser's tracking protection stops it, and the site works exactly the same without it.

Everything else the site serves comes from this domain: no fonts, scripts, images or trackers from anywhere else. Two ordinary exceptions apply, and they are not ours:

• The site is served by a third-party hosting provider, which keeps standard server logs (IP address, timestamp, requested file, user agent) to serve and protect the site. We do not read them for anything else.
• The download buttons and source links point at GitHub. Once you follow one, GitHub's own privacy policy applies.

Your data rights

We hold no personal data about you, so there is nothing to export, correct or delete on our side. If you believe otherwise, or you have a question, open an issue at github.com/aliyar/FetchBar/issues.

Children

FetchBar is a developer tool with no accounts and no collected data; it is not directed at children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

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