Privacy

The short version

Softcap has no user accounts, no analytics, and no advertising. It does not sell, share or monetise anything it handles. Your readings stay on your device.

What the app stores, and where

Usage readings and their history live on your device. Credentials — the tokens that let the app ask a provider about your subscription — live in the system keychain, and are never copied into preferences, logs or files.

Softcap keeps no copy of any of this anywhere else. There is no server-side profile, because there is no server side.

What leaves your machine

Exactly three kinds of network traffic exist, and this is the complete list:

• Usage requests — the app asks Anthropic and OpenAI what is left of your subscriptions, using your own credentials. This is the app's function, and the requests carry no prompt and run no model.
• Error reports, optional — when something fails, a description of the failure can be sent to the author. It is stripped of file paths, addresses and anything token-shaped before it leaves the machine, and the switch that turns it off is in Settings.
• Update check, optional — once a day the app asks the release feed on GitHub whether a newer version exists. That switch is in Settings too.

There is nothing else. No telemetry, no crash-analytics service, no fingerprinting, no third-party SDK making calls of its own.

What the author receives

An error report is a description of a failure: what broke, in which part of the app, on which app version and macOS version. The scrubber removes paths, host names, mail addresses and anything shaped like a credential before sending; reports go to the author's own collector at sentry.softcap.app and are used to fix the failure, then discarded.

Removing your data

Removing an account inside Softcap removes its credentials from your keychain. Deleting the app removes the readings and their history — they existed nowhere else to begin with.

Children

Softcap is a developer tool, is not directed at children, and collects personal information from no one — children included.

Changes to this page

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. There is no mailing list to notify, because there are no addresses to mail.

Contact

Questions about any of this reach the author at lapster.me@gmail.com.