Privacy Policy
Splynek collects nothing about you. No accounts, no telemetry, no crash reports, no analytics, no phone-home. Every byte of information about what you download and when lives on your Mac, full stop.
What this means concretely
When you use Splynek:
- No tracking pixels, no web analytics, no heartbeat pings.
- No account creation, no login, no email address collection.
- No crash reports — Splynek doesn't use Crashlytics, Sentry, App Center, or any similar service.
- No server of ours sees which URLs you download, how fast, from where, or at what time.
- Download history, queue, preferences, session snapshots, and license state are stored exclusively in local files under
~/Library/Application Support/Splynek/(or the App Store build's sandbox container at~/Library/Containers/app.splynek.Splynek/).
What Splynek does talk to
Splynek is a download manager, so by design it makes outbound network connections. Specifically:
- The URLs you tell it to download. Splynek connects directly to those origin servers. Nothing is proxied through Splynek's servers (we don't run any).
- BitTorrent trackers and peers for torrents you add. Standard BitTorrent protocol traffic.
- Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1) if you enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Settings. Off by default.
- Bonjour / mDNS on your LAN if you enable Fleet (localhost-scoped in the free tier, LAN-scoped in Pro).
- Local Ollama daemon (
http://localhost:11434) for Pro AI features. Loopback only; never leaves your machine. If you don't install Ollama, the AI features display an "install Ollama to enable" message — no network traffic at all. - Apple's App Store / StoreKit servers for In-App Purchase processing (MAS build only). Handled entirely by Apple; we see no payment details, no email, no name.
What's in your local data
Splynek writes a few small JSON files under its app-support directory. They're yours and never leave your Mac unless you copy them out:
history.json— completed downloads (URL, output path, SHA-256, bytes per interface, duration). Capped at 500 entries.queue.json— persistent download queue.session.json— in-progress jobs for crash recovery.host-usage.json— per-hostname bytes-today tally.cellular-budget.json— daily cellular byte budget.dht-routing.json— BitTorrent DHT routing table (200 most-recent good nodes).fleet.json— Fleet coordinator descriptor (REST port + token).- Per-download sidecar files:
<downloaded-file>.splynek— manifest with hash + interface split.
Delete these files any time. Splynek rebuilds fresh state on next launch.
Source code transparency
The entire free-tier source code is MIT-licensed and public at github.com/Splynek/splynek. You can verify every network call Splynek makes by reading the code — grep -rn URLSession Sources/ surfaces all of it in under a second.
The Pro-tier modules (AI Concierge, Recipes, Scheduling, LAN-exposed Fleet) are closed-source and ship only in the Mac App Store build, but they follow the same rule: zero telemetry, loopback-only AI, StoreKit-only payment.
In-App Purchase — handled by Apple, not us
If you buy Splynek Pro through the Mac App Store, Apple processes the payment. We receive a signed receipt from Apple confirming the purchase; we never see your credit card, your Apple ID email, or any other identifying information. Apple's own privacy policy covers their side.
Children
Splynek is not directed at children under 13. We don't knowingly collect any information from anyone (the policy applies to everyone), but this is the required disclosure.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date below updates and the commit history at github.com/Splynek/splynek shows the diff — every change is tracked publicly.
Contact
Questions? support@splynek.app.