Splynek tells you when the apps you use
change their privacy policies.
Daily diff of Privacy Policies + Terms of Service for the apps you have installed. Push to your iPhone the moment something changes. 100% local — no servers, no accounts, no telemetry.
macOS 13.0+ · 7.7 MB · Free; Pro features $29 one-time on the App Store (review pending).
Three Pro features. One $29 purchase.
Splynek Pro is one $29 buy that covers every Mac in your Family Sharing group and every iPhone they're paired with. No "Premium Plus" tier, no seat counting, no annual renewal.
Trust Watcher
Daily SHA-256 diff of public Privacy Policies and Terms of Service for 12 seeded popular apps (and growing via community PR). Material changes become alerts on your Mac and push notifications on your iPhone.
Sovereignty Migrate
Guided one-click swap from a US-controlled app to a European or open-source alternative. Per-step confirmation; the original app stays put unless you uninstall it manually.
API tokens for power users
Mint persistent named tokens for Raycast, Alfred, BetterTouchTool, shell scripts. Two scopes (read-only / read+write). Revoke any time.
Every Pro feature, on your iPhone too.
The free Splynek Companion app on the App Store pairs with your Mac and surfaces every Pro feature on the phone. Same $29 purchase covers both surfaces.
Hey Siri, send to Splynek
Hands-free URL submission from anywhere on iOS.
Insights tab
Sovereignty, Trust, Trust Watcher + Recent History from your default Mac.
Home-screen Widget
Sovereignty score as a hero number, traffic-light tinted.
Geo-fence
Auto-pause downloads when you leave home, auto-resume when you arrive.
Apple Watch
Tap-to-pause complications and quick-actions for the paired Mac.
If you can write a curl, you can drive Splynek.
Splynek's HTTP API is token-gated and runs on your LAN. The same surface that powers the Raycast extension, Alfred workflow, and bash cookbook is open to every shell script you'll ever write.
# Queue a URL from anywhere on your LAN curl -X POST -d '{"url":"https://example.com/file.iso"}' \ "http://mac.local:PORT/splynek/v1/api/queue?t=$SPLYNEK_TOKEN" # Read your Sovereignty score curl -s "http://mac.local:PORT/splynek/v1/api/sovereignty/summary?t=$SPLYNEK_TOKEN" \ | jq '.score'
Raycast
5 commands (Submit URL, Active Downloads, Sovereignty Score, Pause All, Resume All). Token-aware via Raycast preferences.
CLI cookbook
Bash wrapper with 9 subcommands plus a curl/jq recipe book — pause-on-DND, daily-Sovereignty-cron, geo-trigger-via-iOS-Shortcut.
MCP server
Splynek speaks Model Context Protocol over JSON-RPC. Wire it into Claude Desktop, opt-in via Settings.
What's new in v2.0.1
v2.0.1 is the launchable hotfix for v2.0.0's entitlements regression plus 10 polish commits across iOS pairing UX, Apple Watch wiring, and the App Intents build path.
- Fixv2.0.0 was unlaunchable; v2.0.1 ships with the right entitlements + a release-smoke step in the build runbook so this can't recur.
- NewPaste-to-pair: copy "Pair URL" on the Mac → tap Paste in the iPhone Companion → done.
- Newsplynek://pair?… deep-link pairing from Messages, Mail, Notes, Universal Clipboard.
- NewWatchConnectivity wired end-to-end — Apple Watch now actually sees paired Macs.
- NewApple Watch ships the Splynek app icon (was a blank placeholder).
- NewApp Intents metadata extraction works in DMG builds — 5 Mac Shortcuts available system-wide.
- NewBonjour TXT-record `ver` reads the live version (was hardcoded to "0.19").
- NewiOS Companion localization at zero gap across 5 locales — Mac too at 904/904.
One screenshot. Three lines.
Privacy through transparency.
We don't know how much you use Splynek. We know you use
it because we shipped a thing. The local engagement
counters live in
~/Library/Application Support/Splynek/engagement.json
— you read the same file we'd read. We don't aggregate it.
We don't transmit it. We don't have a server.
No telemetry. Ever.
No accounts. Pro license is StoreKit-validated; we never see your email except via the App Store receipt.
No cloud sync of your downloads. Everything stays on your Macs + your iPhone.
CloudKit relay uses your own private iCloud database. Apple is the transport; Splynek never sees the records.