Privacy & safety · What leaves your Mac
What does Storage Studio send over the internet?
Short answer: Only what's needed to run the app: your trial registration, licence and update checks, and anonymous summary numbers such as space saved and space moved. Your files, file names, folder names and paths are never sent.
Very little, and never your files. Storage Studio talks to its own server for a handful of things:
- Starting your trial — the name, email and country you enter, plus a one-time code check.
- Licence checks — enough to confirm your plan is valid on this Mac.
- Update checks — whether a newer version exists.
- Anonymous activity reporting — about twice a day, two totals (space saved and space moved) with an anonymous machine tag.
- Anonymous app-health and usage summaries — numbers such as percentages and counts that help keep the app healthy. Never file names, folder names, paths or contents.
Anything else that leaves your Mac is something you started yourself: a support ticket, feedback you submit, a transfer to a cloud account you connected, or Bridge sharing with your own devices.
Read the Privacy Policy for the complete list.