Privacy
Local-only, by construction.
This page describes exactly what Overflow does and doesn't do with your data. It will be kept accurate as the app changes — if something below stops being true, this page changes with it.
What Overflow does locally
Overflow reads the accessibility tree and window list of other running apps, on your Mac, to detect and interact with menu bar items hidden behind the notch or menu bar overflow. That information is used only to render Overflow's own panel and to relay the click you make — it is held in memory for the current session and is not written to disk beyond your own macOS window layout preferences.
Networking
Overflow contacts our licensing server only to activate a trial or paid license and to periodically revalidate that license — nothing else. That request carries a license key and a device identifier, never anything about your menu bar, the apps you run, or how you use Overflow. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, and no telemetry or usage-data collection of any kind. If that changes in a future version — for instance, an opt-in update checker — it will be documented here and will default to off.
Analytics
None. Overflow does not use Cloudflare Web Analytics, Google Analytics, or any other measurement tool inside the app itself, and license activation traffic is never used for analytics or usage tracking. (This website may use privacy-respecting, cookie-free analytics; the desktop app does not.)
Screen recordings
Overflow requests the Screen Recording permission to identify visible menu bar items and their positions using macOS's window-list APIs. No image, video, or frame of your screen is ever captured, saved, or transmitted.
Crash reporting
Overflow does not bundle a third-party crash reporter. If you hit a crash, macOS's own Console and Diagnostic Reports capture it locally — nothing is sent anywhere automatically.
Updates
Overflow does not auto-update or check for updates over the network at launch. New versions are announced on the changelog and downloaded manually from this site.
Data you provide us directly
If you purchase a license or email support, we retain what's necessary to process that transaction or respond to you (typically an email address and purchase record), and nothing more.