Privacy Policy
Last updated 12 October 2026
ScreenForge runs on your Mac. It contacts a server only when you press Activate or Buy, and then it sends one thing: your email address. There are no analytics, no crash reports and no version pings. Your recordings and exports never leave your computer unless you move them yourself.
01What stays on your Mac
Everything the app makes: recordings, projects, the audio track, exports, and the license key once it has been activated. ScreenForge writes them to the folders you choose and reads them back. None of it is uploaded, synced or copied anywhere by the app.
02When the app talks to a server
Two buttons and nothing else:
- Activate sends the email you typed to the license server so it can return the key issued to that address. The key is then verified on your Mac, and the app does not need the server again.
- Buy sends the email you typed to the license server to open a Stripe checkout page. The purchase itself happens on Stripe's site.
Both requests go over HTTPS. Opening the app, recording, editing and exporting make no network requests at all.
03What we keep
If you buy a license: the email address you paid with, the plan, the key issued to it, and whether the subscription is active. That record exists so the key can be resent, renewed or refunded. We do not keep a profile, a usage history or anything about the recordings you make.
04Who else is involved
- Stripe processes the payment. Your card details go to Stripe, never to us; see Stripe's privacy policy.
- Resend delivers the license email. It sees your address and the key in the message it sends; see Resend's privacy policy.
- Supabase hosts the license server and its database.
- GitHub hosts the source and the release downloads. The download page asks GitHub's public API which release is newest; that request carries no data about you beyond what any web request does.
05What we do not do
- No telemetry, usage analytics or crash reporting, in the app or on this site.
- No phone-home on launch, no install counters, no update pings.
- No selling, sharing or transferring your data, ever.
- No account. We hold no record that you exist until you buy a key, and then only the email you used.
06Deleting your data
Email license@screenforge.studio from the address you paid with and the license record is deleted. The key stops working once it is gone, so ask after a refund rather than before.
07Changes and contact
This policy may change; the date above will change with it, and the history is public in the repository. Questions: license@screenforge.studio. ScreenForge is published by Smartloop Inc.