Privacy

Tidi collects nothing about you. Not a reduced amount, not an anonymised amount — nothing. This page explains how that is enforced rather than merely promised.

Last updated 8 September 2026.

The short version

Tidi runs entirely on your Mac. It has no user accounts, no servers, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your file names, folder structure, and file contents are never transmitted anywhere, because there is nowhere for them to go.

macOS enforces this, not us. Tidi ships without the com.apple.security.network.client entitlement. An app without that entitlement cannot open an outgoing network connection — the operating system refuses the call. You can verify this yourself on the downloaded app with codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/Tidi.app.

What Tidi collects

Nothing. Tidi's privacy manifest declares an empty set of collected data types and no tracking domains, which is why its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.

  • No name, email address, or account of any kind. Tidi never asks who you are.
  • No analytics, usage metrics, session recording, or crash reporting.
  • No advertising identifiers, and no tracking across apps or websites.
  • No file names, file contents, folder paths, or disk usage figures.

What Tidi reads, and where it goes

Tidi is a file organiser, so it necessarily reads your files. All of that reading happens locally, and none of the results leave the machine.

  • File metadata. Names, extensions, sizes, and modification dates, so rules can match on them.
  • Text inside files. If you enable a rule that matches on file contents, Tidi uses Apple's Vision framework to recognise text in images and PDFs — on-device, on your machine. No image or document is uploaded, and the recognised text is used to make the match and then discarded.
  • Your settings. Rules, pinned folders, and preferences are stored in your app container on your Mac.
  • A transaction journal. So that moves can be undone, Tidi records what it moved and where, in ~/Library/Containers/com.bradZellman.Tidi/Data/Library/Application Support/Tidi/Journal/. That path is inside Tidi's sandbox container, which is why it looks longer than you would expect. It stays on your Mac and you can delete it at any time.

Which folders Tidi can reach

Tidi runs inside Apple's App Sandbox. It can only reach folders you have explicitly granted, and it holds that access through a security-scoped bookmark so it does not have to ask again on every launch. Revoking access is a matter of removing the folder from Tidi's list, or deleting the app.

Tidi never writes outside the folders you choose, and it never reads your home directory wholesale.

Purchases

The one-time unlock is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase system. Apple handles the entire transaction; Tidi receives only a signed entitlement saying the purchase exists. We never see your payment details, and we receive no personal information from Apple about you.

Apple's own handling of that transaction is covered by the Apple Privacy Policy.

Children

Tidi is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If Tidi ever collects anything, this page will say so before that version ships, and the App Store privacy label will change to match. A version that quietly starts collecting data would contradict the entitlement it is built with.

Contact

Questions about this policy can go to support@tidi.fyi.