Use Stackbar

Privacy and safety

What Stackbar and its plugins can reach, what it sends, and how to report a problem.

Stackbar has no account and no analytics.

Plugins are sandboxed

Every plugin runs in its own process inside the macOS App Sandbox, so a crash or a hang in one never takes down the others. A plugin reaches only what its manifest declares and you approved: named network hosts, files you picked, the clipboard, your calendar, its own secrets. Settings › Privacy & Secrets shows all of it, and the network audit shows which declared hosts a plugin actually used.

What leaves your Mac

• Update checks fetch the release feed from GitHub once a day, if automatic checks are on.
• Store checks fetch the signed plugin index from GitHub Pages.
• Crash reports are off unless you turn them on (Welcome window or Settings › Privacy & Secrets). A report carries the crash, the Stackbar and macOS versions, and nothing about your plugins, files or logs.
• Plugins reach the hosts they declared, such as GitHub for PR Cockpit.

Report a problem

Help › Report a Problem… opens a new GitHub issue with stackbarctl doctor output filled in (versions, toolchain, folders). Read it before you send it; nothing is posted until you do.

Security issues go to the address in SECURITY.md rather than a public issue.