Privacy Policy
Shrtcut for macOS
Last updated: 13 September 2026
Shrtcut has no advertising and no user accounts, and it never uploads your apps, shortcuts, window titles, keystrokes or saved passwords. From version 2.2 it does send anonymous usage data, which you can switch off in Settings › Privacy. That, and what this website records, are both described below.
Apart from the usage data described below, it makes network connections for exactly one purpose: checking your licence. That is described in full below, and it is the only time the app talks to a server.
Who we are
Shrtcut is developed and published by Vegawear LTD (“we”, “us”). Apart from the licence check described below, we hold no personal data about you, and we do not sell or share data of yours with anyone. Any questions about this policy can go to info@vegawear.info.
What Shrtcut stores
Your preferences — keyboard shortcuts, launcher groups, ring size, language and the per-app shortcuts you save — are written to macOS's standard preferences store (UserDefaults) in your own user account on this Mac. They stay on the machine. They are not synced, uploaded, or backed up by us. Deleting the app and its preferences removes them.
Saved passwords are stored in the macOS Keychain on this Mac and are never transmitted by Shrtcut. Revealing one, or using one from the ring, requires Touch ID or your login password; one check covers a five-minute window, and locking your screen ends it immediately. Passwords are not synced to iCloud, and the app’s own settings file stores only the labels, icons and hints you choose — never a password.
Licence checks
Shrtcut is paid software with a two-Mac limit, so it has to confirm that a licence key is valid and how many Macs are using it. This is the only network activity in the app.
When you activate a licence, Shrtcut sends to Lemon Squeezy:
- the licence key you typed in
- an instance name identifying this Mac, made of the computer’s name (as set in System Settings) and the first eight characters of its hardware identifier
Afterwards, Shrtcut re-checks the licence at most once every seven days, sending the licence key and the activation id that Lemon Squeezy issued. Nothing else is sent, and nothing is sent on a schedule when you have no licence.
If the check cannot reach the server, the app keeps working. A failed connection never locks you out; only an explicit refusal from the licence server does, and even then there is a 30-day grace period.
Where it goes. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record for Shrtcut and handles licensing and payment. Their privacy policy governs data they receive: lemonsqueezy.com/privacy.
Payment details never pass through the app. Purchases happen on Lemon Squeezy’s own checkout page. Shrtcut never sees, handles or stores a card number.
Stored on your Mac, in the macOS Keychain: your licence key, the activation id, the date of the last successful check, and the result of that check. This is what lets the app work offline.
Why Shrtcut asks for Accessibility permission
macOS requires Accessibility permission for the two things Shrtcut exists to do:
- Global keyboard shortcuts. Receiving a keystroke while another app is in front — and preventing that keystroke from also reaching the app in front — is only possible with this permission.
- Listing an app's windows. The window arc reads the titles and positions of the open windows belonging to the app you have highlighted, so it can offer them to you and bring the one you pick to the front.
This information is read at the moment you open a ring, used to draw that ring, and discarded when it closes. It is never written to disk and never leaves your Mac. Shrtcut does not log keystrokes, does not read window contents, and does not observe anything while its rings are closed.
What Shrtcut does not do
- No advertising, and nothing sold or shared with anyone for it.
- No profile of you. Usage data is anonymous, and what it contains is listed under “Usage data” above.
- Your apps, shortcuts, window titles, keystrokes and saved passwords are never uploaded. The licence check sends only what is listed above.
- No account or sign-in. A licence key is not an account.
- Nothing is sold or shared with third parties for advertising.
Usage data
Versions before 2.2 sent nothing at all. From 2.2, Shrtcut reports when the app launches, when a ring is opened, and how many tabs a capture found, along with the app version, the macOS version, and whether the copy came from the App Store or from this site. It is sent to PostHog, who process it on our behalf.
It never includes window titles, app names, the contents of your shortcuts, the titles or addresses of captured tabs, file paths, your licence key, or anything you type. Events carry an identifier that is either random or a one-way hash of your licence key — it cannot be reversed into the key, and it is not your Mac’s serial number or hardware identifier.
It is on by default. The first time an updated copy launches it says so and offers to switch it off, and the switch is in Settings › Privacy at any time. Turning it off stops it immediately.
This website
This website counts visits, using Vercel Web Analytics, Vercel Speed Insights and PostHog. They record the page visited, the site or link that referred you, and coarse details such as country, browser and device type, along with page-loading speed. Addresses are recorded without anything after the question mark — the page you land on after buying carries your licence key in its address, and stripping the query string is what keeps that key out of the analytics.
This site sets no cookies for analytics — the preference is kept in your browser's own storage — and there are no advertising identifiers and nothing that follows you to other websites. Visits are counted in aggregate rather than built into a profile of you, which is why this site shows no cookie banner. We use it to see which pages and links bring people here, and for nothing else.
Distribution
The build offered here is distributed directly by Vegawear LTD, signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarised by Apple. Should a sandboxed edition be published on the Mac App Store, it would be subject to Apple’s own terms and privacy disclosures in addition to this policy.
Children
Shrtcut is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information beyond the licence data described above.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the revised version will be published at this address with an updated date above. The app's behaviour and this document are versioned in the same repository, so they change together.
Contact
Questions about privacy: info@vegawear.info