Privacy Policy

How PowerClick handles your data, and what every macOS permission it can ask for is actually used for.

Last updated: October 2026 · Applies to PowerClick 2.5

The short version

PowerClick does not collect, transmit or share any personal data. Everything the app does happens entirely on your Mac. There are no analytics, no telemetry, no account and no network requests of any kind. PowerClick is sandboxed and has no network entitlement, so macOS itself enforces the limits described below. Files you convert, compress, scan or transcribe are processed on your Mac and never uploaded anywhere.

What PowerClick stores

All data is stored locally using standard macOS mechanisms:

  • Clipboard history stays in the shared App Group container on your Mac. Never transmitted anywhere.
  • Snippets stay in the shared App Group container. Local only.
  • Activity log stays in the shared App Group container. Local only.
  • Settings and preferences live in UserDefaults on your Mac. This includes your ShortClick shortcut, your favourite apps, your automations and your appearance choice.

The App Group container (group.com.atakilicov.PoweRClick) is a sandboxed local directory shared between the main app and the Finder extension. It is not accessible to other apps and is never synced to any external service.

Optional permissions, and what each one does

Four optional features need a macOS permission. Each one is inert until you both use the feature and grant the permission in System Settings. You can revoke any of them at any time, and PowerClick keeps working without them.

Input Monitoring

Used only for the Command and Shift plus right-click trigger. PowerClick installs an event tap that watches three event types and nothing else: right mouse button down, right mouse button up, and right mouse drag. It reads the modifier keys carried on those three events so it can tell your trigger apart from an ordinary right-click. It does not tap keyboard events, does not record what you type, and does not log the events it sees. If you prefer, turn the mouse trigger off in Settings and use only the keyboard shortcut, which needs no permission at all.

Off unless you enable it

Accessibility

Used only for window snapping. PowerClick reads and writes the position and size of the frontmost window through the public macOS Accessibility API, which is the same mechanism every window manager on macOS uses. It does not read window contents, text, form fields or any other app's data, and it only ever acts on the window that is frontmost at the moment you pick a snapping action.

Off unless you enable it

Automation, also called Apple Events

Used for two things, and limited to two system helpers. For auto-paste, PowerClick asks System Events to send one keystroke, Command plus V, so a snippet you picked lands in the app you were typing in. For Shortcuts automations, PowerClick asks Shortcuts Events for the names of your own shortcuts so you can pick one from a list, and runs the one you choose. PowerClick cannot script any other application. Synthetic input is never injected directly.

Off unless you enable it

Screen Recording

Used only for Scan QR on Screen, on macOS 14 or later. When you start a scan, PowerClick captures one frame of the display under your cursor with Apple's ScreenCaptureKit, looks for codes in it in memory and then discards it. The frame is never written to disk, never saved and never sent anywhere. Nothing is captured until you start a scan and grant the permission, and PowerClick does not record video or watch your screen in the background.

Only when you scan

Converting, compressing and scanning files

Convert, Compress for sharing and Read QR & Barcodes work on the files you right-click, using Apple's own frameworks on your Mac. The result is written as a new file next to the original, which is never modified. Links found in QR codes are checked for phishing tricks with fixed rules on your Mac: no link is ever sent to a server and no blocklist is downloaded. Contact and event codes are handed to Contacts or Calendar for you to review. PowerClick never reads your contacts or calendars.

Translate and Transcribe

Translate uses Apple's Translation framework (macOS 15 or later) and Transcribe uses Apple's Speech framework (macOS 26 or later). Both run on-device. The language models they need are downloaded by macOS itself the first time you use a language, not by PowerClick. The text you translate and the recordings you transcribe stay on your Mac.

Clipboard access

PowerClick reads from the system clipboard to build your clipboard history, and when you choose New File from Clipboard it looks at the copied content to pick a file type. It skips items marked as concealed, such as passwords from a password manager or Keychain, when the "Ignore Passwords" setting is enabled. Clipboard content is stored only on your device and is removed when you clear your history.

Finder extension and the Finder selection

The Finder Sync extension reads the current folder path and the selected file paths when you right-click. This is used to build the context menu and perform the action you choose.

One detail worth stating plainly: when the "Adapt to Finder selection" option is on, the extension also writes the paths of your current Finder selection into the App Group container, so the ShortClick ring can offer to open those files with one of your favourite apps. That snapshot is a list of file paths, it stays on your Mac, it is replaced by the next selection, and it is ignored once it is more than sixty seconds old. Turning the option off in Settings stops it being written.

Appearance settings

Your Light, Dark or Auto choice, the Liquid Glass look and the theme colour are stored in PowerClick's own preferences. They change how PowerClick looks and nothing else. Picking Light here does not change your system appearance, and Auto simply follows whatever macOS is doing.

Notifications

PowerClick can send local system notifications when a file is created, using UNUserNotificationCenter. These are standard macOS local notifications. No notification content is sent to any external server.

Analytics and crash reporting

PowerClick does not include any analytics SDKs, crash reporters or telemetry of any kind. There is no tracking code in the app.

Third-party services

PowerClick does not integrate with any third-party service, API or SDK, and makes no network requests. The only other software it talks to is macOS itself: System Events and Shortcuts Events, as described above, and only when you have enabled the feature that needs them.

Open-source components

Two open-source libraries are built into the app and run locally: libwebp (BSD 3-Clause), which writes WebP images, and cmark-gfm (BSD 2-Clause and MIT), which reads Markdown. Neither makes network requests. Their licences are shown in Settings, About, Licenses.

Data retention and deletion

You are in full control of everything PowerClick stores. You can clear your clipboard history, delete individual snippets, or use "Reset All Data" in Settings to wipe everything. Uninstalling removes the app itself. To also remove stored data, use "Reset All Data" before uninstalling, or delete the App Group container from your Mac.

Children

PowerClick does not knowingly collect information from anyone. The app has no user accounts, no sign-in and no network access.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a meaningful way, the updated version is posted at this URL with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach out at ata@kilicov.dev.