Almost nothing leaves your Mac.
Last updated 7 October 2026
The app
Unhogged reads your Mac — processes, memory, storage, network, sensors, audio devices — to show you what's happening. Everything it learns stays on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/app.unhogged.desktop. Delete that folder and it's gone.
- No account, no analytics, no crash reports, no advertising identifiers.
- It never reads another app's environment variables, which is where API keys and passwords usually live.
- Per-app loudness passes an app's sound through a volume control on its way to your speakers. Nothing is recorded, stored or sent.
The licence check
This is one of the app's two network requests. When you activate, Unhogged sends your licence key, your Mac's name (so you can recognise it on your purchase page) and the app's version to Polar, our payment provider. Every few days it sends the key again to confirm it's still valid. Nothing about your apps, files or usage is included.
The update check
The other one. Twice a day, and when you choose Check for updates, Unhogged asks unhogged.com for the newest version. The request carries nothing about you, your Mac or your licence — our host sees only what any web request shows, such as your IP address. Updates are signed, and one that isn't signed by us is refused. Nothing is installed until you choose to.
Buying
Purchases are handled by Polar, who act as merchant of record: they take payment, charge the right tax, and send your receipt. Polar receives your name, email, billing address and payment details; we see your name, email and order. See Polar's own privacy policy for how they handle it.
When you go to checkout from this site, the link carries the page you first arrived on and the site that sent you there (for example "google"), so we can tell which pages help people decide. It's kept in your browser tab only, not in a cookie, and says nothing about you.
This website
This site runs no advertising. It counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn't identify you: we see totals, such as how many people viewed a page, which site sent them, and their country and device type.
If you allow it in the banner, it also uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies to tell repeat visits apart and shows us how people move through the site. It is set up for measurement only: no advertising features and no Google signals. Until you allow it, nothing is sent to Google; if you say no, it never loads. You can change your mind any time with "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page, which also clears Google's cookies. Our host also keeps standard server logs (IP address, page, time) for security, briefly.
Questions
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