Privacy, plainly.

Who this is

Tiidy is made and run by me, Petar Ceklic, a product designer in Perth, Western Australia. When this page says "I" or "me", that's who it means. If you have a question about your privacy, email hello@tiidy.app and I'll answer it myself.

What Tiidy can see on your Mac

Tiidy asks for one permission: Accessibility. It uses it to find the icons in your menu bar and to show or hide them. For icons you've tucked away, it also reads their text label and width, so it can pop one out when it changes, like a finished upload.

It never asks for Screen Recording, and it never sees the picture on your screen or inside an icon.

To notice an iPhone Live Activity, Tiidy checks how busy one macOS helper is. To show which menu bar apps are heavy, and how busy your Mac is overall (memory, processor and disk space), it reads numbers macOS already keeps. Neither needs a permission, and neither leaves your Mac.

To show an app during calls, Tiidy asks macOS whether the microphone or camera is in use, the same yes or no that lights the dot in your menu bar, and which apps have the microphone on, so dictation apps don't count as a call. It never listens, never looks, and never knows what the call is. To show an app while a VPN is on, it checks whether a VPN connection is up. Neither needs a permission. For the other choices, it checks which displays are connected and which app is in front. All of this happens on your Mac.

What runs quietly, in Settings, lists apps and background helpers with their memory use. Quitting an app, or letting it nap, is a normal quit, so the app can still ask about unsaved work. Stopping a helper keeps it from starting by itself until you choose Start Again, even after you quit or delete Tiidy. A few helpers belong to System Settings, and Tiidy takes you there.

If you used Bartender, Ice or Vanilla before, setup reads their settings once to fill in your first layout. It never changes them.

What stays on your Mac

Tiidy stores these on your Mac and does not upload them:

• Your layout. Which icons are In the bar, Tucked or Buried.
• Your preferences. Everything you set in Settings.
• Click history. When you last clicked each icon, and on which days. Tiidy uses it to suggest tidying, and to tell how long an app has gone unused before it naps. It never leaves your Mac.

Your trial and licence record is kept separately in your Mac’s Keychain, so reinstalling Tiidy does not restart the trial or lose your key. Deleting the app and its preferences does not remove that record. Licence activation also creates a record with Polar, as described below. Contact hello@tiidy.app for help removing local data.

Your layout file

In Settings, Export writes a .tiidy file so you can take your layout to another Mac. It holds your sections and preferences. It never includes click history. The file goes wherever you save it, and Tiidy doesn't send it anywhere.

Reporting a problem

Report a Problem, in the broom's menu, makes a report on your Mac. You can read all of it first. If you want to send it, you email it yourself from your own mail app. Tiidy never sends it.

Update checks

Once a day, Tiidy asks whether there's a new version by fetching https://tiidy.app/appcast.xml. It uses Sparkle, the standard open-source updater for Mac apps, with system profiling turned off.

As with any web request, the server that hosts tiidy.app sees your IP address, and the request names the app and its version. If there's an update, it downloads from tiidy.app too.

To count update checks and downloads, including downloads from this website, the server keeps a short log of each one: the file, the time, and the app or browser name. It doesn't keep your IP address, and the log is deleted after 30 days at most.

Your licence

When you enter a licence key, Tiidy activates it with Polar's licence service at api.polar.sh. After that it checks the key now and then, about once a week, so a refunded or deactivated key stops working. Here is everything it sends:

Polar also sees your IP address, as with any web request. Deactivating this Mac in Settings frees its slot. During the free trial, no licence activation request is sent. Update checks still happen.

Buying Tiidy

Purchases are handled by Polar, the merchant of record. They take your payment, work out the tax and send your receipt and licence key. They process your payment and tax details under their own privacy policy. The checkout loads from Polar only when you click Buy, so browsing this site sends them nothing.

Tiidy never sees your card details. I can see the order details Polar shares with sellers, like your name, email address and country, and I use them only to help with your licence, a refund or a question you've asked.

This website

tiidy.app sets no cookies and has no ads. It counts visits with Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool that Petar runs himself. Umami records the page you opened, the site that sent you, and your browser, device type and country. It doesn't use cookies, doesn't store your IP address and can't follow you to other sites. The counts are only seen by Petar, to learn which pages are useful.

To be plain about it: the fonts come from Google Fonts, and the home page loads one small physics script from cdnjs, which Cloudflare runs. Your browser fetches these directly, so Google and Cloudflare see your IP address, as they do on any site that uses them. The site and the Umami server are hosted on Railway, which sees it too, with each page you open.

If you email me

I'll use your email address and what you write only to reply and help. I won't add you to a mailing list or pass it on.

Your rights, and Australian law

Tiidy is made in Australia, and I follow the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act 1988. In plain terms: I collect only what I need, I tell you why, I keep it safe, and you can ask to see or correct anything I hold about you. The records I can access are order and licence details, plus any emails you send me; your layout and icon click history stay on your Mac.

To ask for a copy, a correction or a deletion, or to make a complaint, email hello@tiidy.app. I'll reply within 30 days, usually much sooner. If you're not happy with my answer, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Wherever you live, you can ask me the same things and I'll help in the same way.

If this changes

If Tiidy ever needs to send something new, I'll update this page and its date before that version ships, and say so in the changelog. This version took effect on 29 September 2026.