Privacy Policy — JellyBar

TL;DR — the short version

JellyBar collects no personal data whatsoever.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no telemetry, no network requests.
All data (your layout, backups) stays on your Mac and optional iCloud.
Only Accessibility permission is needed. Screen Recording is optional and limited to icon previews.
No account. No subscription. No sign-in of any kind.

1. What JellyBar does

JellyBar is a macOS menu bar manager. It reads your menu bar's layout, lets you rearrange and hide icons, and persists that arrangement across restarts and wakes. Everything it does happens entirely on your device.

2. Information we collect

None. JellyBar does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information. There are no analytics SDKs, no crash reporters, no usage tracking, and no server-side components of any kind.

The only data JellyBar stores is your menu bar layout configuration — and that stays on your own Mac (see Section 4).

3. Permissions requested

JellyBar asks for the following macOS permissions:

Permission	Status	Why it's needed
Accessibility	Required	Used to read menu bar item identities and to synthetically move icons to match your saved layout. Without this, JellyBar cannot arrange anything.
Screen Recording	Optional	Used solely to capture a snapshot of each menu bar icon's glyph for display in the settings window. If you decline, JellyBar falls back to each app's Dock icon. This permission is never used for identity, continuous capture, or any purpose other than icon previews.

JellyBar is fully functional without Screen Recording. Granting it only improves how icons look in the settings UI.

4. Data stored on your device

JellyBar writes the following files to your Mac:

~/Library/Application Support/JellyBar/layout.json — your saved menu bar layout (icon order, hidden/shown state).
~/Library/Application Support/JellyBar/backups/ — automatic layout snapshots (newest 30 kept) and any manual snapshots you create (kept indefinitely).
~/Library/Application Support/JellyBar/icons/ — cached icon glyph snapshots (only written when Screen Recording is granted; never transmitted anywhere).
~/Library/Logs/JellyBar/ — diagnostic logs for troubleshooting (arrangement activity). These remain on your device and are not uploaded anywhere.

All files are stored under your home directory and are readable only by your user account.

5. iCloud sync

If you enable the iCloud Backups option in JellyBar's settings, your layout backups are mirrored to iCloud Drive/JellyBar/backups/. This sync is:

Opt-in. It is off by default and only active if you turn it on.
Your data, your infrastructure. The files are stored in your personal iCloud account under Apple's infrastructure, governed by Apple's iCloud Terms and Privacy Policy. JellyBar has no access to your iCloud data independent of your device.
Layout data only. Only your icon arrangement backups (JSON files) are synced — no personal information.

6. Network access

JellyBar makes no outbound network requests of any kind — except for iCloud sync initiated by your macOS system when iCloud Backups is enabled (see Section 5). There is no telemetry, no license check, no update check, no analytics endpoint. No data leaves your device via JellyBar's own code.

7. Third-party services

JellyBar uses no third-party SDKs, frameworks, or services. There are no advertising networks, analytics providers, payment processors, or external APIs integrated into the app.

8. Children's privacy

JellyBar does not collect any information from anyone, including children. The app is a macOS utility with no user accounts or data collection of any kind.

9. Changes to this policy

If this privacy policy changes materially, the updated version will be posted at jellybar.app/privacy with a revised "Last updated" date. Given that JellyBar collects no data, substantive changes to this policy are unlikely.

10. Contact

Questions about this privacy policy or JellyBar's data practices? Reach out at marc@vigod.com or via the support page.