Privacy

Last updated 23 October 2026

In short: Hatch has no accounts, no analytics and no tracking. Your data stays on your Mac. The app only connects to the internet to fetch artwork and lyrics for what you're playing.

What stays on your Mac

To-dos, notes and settings are saved on your Mac only.
Tray files are copied to a folder on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/Hatch) and never uploaded.
Clipboard history is kept in memory only and is gone when Hatch quits. Items that password managers mark as private are never recorded.

Permissions, and why

Calendar: to show today's and tomorrow's events and find meeting links. Events are read on your Mac and never sent anywhere.
Automation (Music, Spotify and browsers): to show and control what's playing. In browsers, Hatch reads only the playing video's title, time and artwork.

When Hatch goes online

Lyrics: for Music and Spotify, Hatch asks LRCLIB, a free open lyrics database, for the current song, sending its title, artist, album and length. You can turn lyrics off in Settings.
Artwork: album art and video thumbnails are fetched from the address the player or website provides.

Hatch sends no usage data, crash reports or identifiers.

This website

We count visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn't identify you; it reports totals such as page views, referring sites and countries. Downloads are served by GitHub, which counts how many times each release is downloaded.

Feedback

If you send feedback through GitHub, it's public and handled under GitHub's privacy policy. Only include what you're happy to share.

Questions

Open an issue at myhatch.dev/feedback.