Your privacy is central to Tidy. This policy explains what data is handled (and what isn't).
1. The app runs on your Mac
Tidy processes your files locally on your computer. The App does not send your files, screenshots or folder contents to any server. All tidying happens on your Mac. The exception is the optional connector for Claude, explained in section 3.
2. On-device AI
Tidy's AI features — renaming screenshots by reading their content (OCR) and building rules from plain language — run entirely on your device using Apple's frameworks (Vision and Apple Intelligence). No image, text or file leaves your Mac, and no internet connection is required for them.
3. Optional features (since 3.0)
These three features come switched off. If you turn them on, this is what they do with your data:
Palito and music. If you turn on Palito (off by default) and its “Dances to Apple Music and Spotify” option, Tidy asks whichever player you have open what is playing — title, artist and tempo — through the same public Apple API the system controls use; macOS asks your permission once. That query happens only on your Mac and is neither stored nor sent anywhere. With the option off, Tidy doesn't talk to any player.
Connector for Claude. If you install the connector in Claude Desktop and turn it on in Tidy, Claude can ask Tidy for a short card about each file: type, date, issuer, a brief title and the name of the site or app it came from. Those cards are received by Claude, a cloud service run by Anthropic, and from there Anthropic's privacy policy applies. Tidy never hands over the file or its text, and it strips tax IDs, amounts and full links before building the card. Nothing Claude suggests moving or renaming happens until you approve it in Tidy. With the connector off, Tidy doesn't answer anything.
Voice notes and videos. To transcribe, macOS downloads your language's speech model from Apple the first time you turn the feature on. The system does that download; the transcription happens on your Mac and the audio never leaves it.
What Tidy read, inside the file. Tidy stores the text it read inside the file itself as Spotlight data, so your Mac can find it by what it says. That data travels with the file if you copy it to a drive, zip it or send it over AirDrop. Tidy doesn't write it into anything that looks like a password, an ID document or a card, or into cloud files that aren't downloaded to your Mac. When you turn the feature off, Tidy removes it from all your files.
4. Data we do NOT collect
Tidy collects no personal data, does not track your activity and does not build profiles. You don't need an account to use the App.
5. Website
Our website may use basic, anonymous web analytics (for example, visit counts) to understand usage. It does not identify individuals.
6. Payments
Purchases are processed by Paddle.com, our Merchant of Record. Payment data (card, billing) is handled by Paddle under its own privacy policy. We never see or store your card details.
7. Your rights
You may request information about your data or its deletion by contacting us. For purchase-related data, you may also contact Paddle.
8. Contact
Tidy is a product of Comercializadora Shaka SpA, Chile. Email us at hola@tidymacapp.com.