Privacy policy

The short version

Readout's only network request is a daily update check (below), and it collects nothing: no analytics, tracking, crash reporting or advertising. The makers of Readout never receive your data. Everything Readout reads stays on your Mac.

What Readout reads on your Mac

• System readings: CPU, memory, swap, network throughput, battery (pmset), disk free space, uptime, and the list of running processes with their CPU and memory use. Read every few seconds and kept in memory only.
• Listening ports: which programs are listening for network connections (lsof), shown on the Ports tab.
• Folder sizes: in the background (every few hours, or when you press Rescan) Readout walks your home folder, /Applications, /Library, /opt, /usr/local, /Users/Shared and the swap folder, and adds up file sizes. It reads file and folder names and sizes only, never file contents. With Full Disk Access it can also count protected folders such as Mail and Messages; without it, those are skipped.
• App icons: the icon Finder shows for each app or disk, for the lists.

Update checks

Readout checks newitools.app for updates about once a day. The request includes the app and macOS version. Only the number of checks per version is counted; nothing that identifies you is stored.

What Readout saves

• ~/Library/Application Support/Readout/disk-usage.tsv: the last folder scan (paths of folders of 50 MB and up, files of 1 GB and up, and their sizes). The readout disk command reads this file. Other local tools you run can read it too.
• ~/Library/Application Support/Readout/welcomed: an empty file noting the first-launch guide was shown.
• ~/Library/Caches/Readout/icons: app icons as small PNGs.
• ~/.local/bin/readout: a link to the app, only if you choose to install the command.

Readout keeps no settings in macOS user defaults. Delete those folders to remove everything it saved.

What Readout can change

Only what you ask for: Quit, Force Quit and Stop (on a port) end the process you picked, after you confirm. Copy prompt puts a text summary of your disk usage on the clipboard, for you to paste wherever you choose; Readout sends it nowhere.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date, and the change will be visible in the project's history.

Contact

Questions: hello@newitools.app