Privacy

Menucove has no account and no analytics. Your setup stays on your Mac.

What stays on your Mac

• Your choices: whether your bar is tidied, your shortcut, and your settings.
• The apps Menucove finds in your menu bar, and the names you give them.
• How often you open each app’s menu from Menucove, so the ones you use most come first. It’s kept for 4 weeks.
• Names of menu commands you’ve seen at least twice in menus opened from Menucove, if you allowed Accessibility. See below.

None of this is sent anywhere.

Your license

When you activate, and about once a week after that, Menucove sends your license key and a random label for this Mac (never its name) to menucove.app, which checks it with our payment provider. Your key is stored in your Mac’s Keychain.

The one thing it checks online

Menucove checks menucove.app for a newer version. You can turn this off in Settings. The check is a normal web request, so menucove.app sees what any website sees: your IP address and the app version asking. Menucove doesn’t send anything else, and nothing is used to identify you.

Accessibility, only if you allow it

Tidying needs no permission. If you allow Accessibility, Menucove uses it to:

• Find your menu-bar apps, including when you open the crab’s popover, so new apps show up.
• Open an app’s menu when you click it, or run a menu command you pick.
• Move an icon when you press Show or Tuck away or drag to reorder. It briefly moves the pointer to do that.
• Learn command names from menus you open with Menucove, so you can search them. A name is saved only after it shows up twice. Names with live-looking text (numbers, addresses, links) and apps that look like clipboard, password, authenticator, mail or messages apps are skipped. You can forget them all in Settings.

While a menu Menucove opened is showing, it notices a mouse click or the menu closing so it can tidy again. It never watches your typing, doesn’t read your screen, and doesn’t look inside other apps’ windows. You can turn Accessibility off any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Accessibility.

Busy apps

While the Menucove popover is open, it checks how much CPU your background apps are using, so it can point out one that’s working hard. It reads only the CPU time macOS keeps for each app. Nothing is saved or sent.

This website

The site uses analytics to count visits. The Menucove app itself has no analytics.

Questions

Write to hello@menucove.app.