Privacy

Loft · 3 September 2026

In short: Loft sends nothing to me or to anyone else. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising identifier. Everything Loft writes stays on your Mac.

Responsible

René Zuch
Bahnhofmatte 2
3232 Ins
Switzerland
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Full details in the legal notice.

What does not happen

No transmission. The app contains no networking code. It opens no connection of its own.
No screen recording. Loft never asks for the Screen Recording permission and does not read what is on your screen.
No keystrokes. Loft does not read what you type.

What is stored on your Mac

Settings. Your choices (keyboard shortcut, countdown length, start at login and so on) live in the usual macOS preferences for the app.

A local diagnostic log at ~/Library/Logs/Loft.log. It holds:

the menu bar measurements — the count, size, position and opacity of hidden icons;
when you use the Option-click action: the full address (including path and query) or the application name that was opened — plus, if an application cannot be found, its bundle identifier, and on error the text of the system message.

These measurements are needed because macOS publishes no list of menu bar icons; Loft infers from window geometry. The log is never transmitted. You can read it and delete it at any time; Loft also shows the path in its “About Loft” window.

If you report a problem, you decide whether to attach an excerpt. Nothing is sent on its own.

Permissions

Loft from the Mac App Store runs in the macOS sandbox and needs no system permission.

Buying and payment

A purchase through the Mac App Store is handled by Apple; Apple gives me no personal details about buyers.

This website

The site sets no cookies and loads nothing from third-party servers — no fonts, no maps, no tracking pixels. The hosting provider keeps the usual server access logs.

Questions

Write to me: contact form