#Nothing that could identify you

The short version

MiniPrompter has no analytics, no tracking, no crash reporting and no account. Your scripts are read from your disk and never leave your Mac. There is nowhere for them to go: the app has no account, no sync and no upload path of any kind.

This was not a feature to build. The app contained no networking code at all until automatic updates were added, and it still contains none beyond that one check — which is described exactly, below.

Three things worth being precise about

The links in the app open your browser

Online help and the coffee link hand a web address to your browser. That is your browser making the connection, not MiniPrompter. The links carry a short tag saying which button you pressed — mp-about, mp-settings and so on — so it is possible to tell which placement people use. Nothing about you is in it, and nothing is recorded on your Mac.

The app counts its own launches, locally

MiniPrompter counts how many times you have opened it, so that after about ten sessions it can say thank you once and then never again. That number lives in your Mac's settings and is never sent anywhere.

The update check is a real connection

MiniPrompter makes exactly one connection of its own, and this is it. Once a day it reads a small file at miniprompter.app/appcast.xml to see whether a newer version exists. The request carries nothing about you, your Mac or your scripts — it asks for a file and reads the answer. Turn it off in Settings › General › Check for updates automatically, and check by hand any time from the MiniPrompter menu.

That is the whole of it. There is no second request, no "usage statistics" checkbox that is on by default, and no profile of your Mac attached to the update check — Sparkle can send one, and MiniPrompter deliberately leaves it off.

What the server sees is a separate question, and it is answered in full below. The short version: this site adds one to a daily tally of update checks, tagged with the app version and the country, and records nothing else.

This site runs no analytics package, no third-party scripts, no tracking pixels and no cookies. Even the fonts are served from this domain rather than from Google's, so loading a page here contacts nobody but this site. It does keep three counters, and the next section says exactly what is in them.

The three things this website counts

Not the app — this website. When you download the disk image, follow the coffee link, or when MiniPrompter checks for an update, a small program on this domain adds one to a running total. That is the entire mechanism, and this is every column it writes:

• the date, to the day;
• which of the three it was;
• one detail: which file was downloaded, or which button the coffee link was pressed from, or which version of the app checked in;
• the country the request came from, which every web server in the world can see.

And that is the whole list. No IP addresses. No browser fingerprint. No cookie. No identifier of any kind, and nothing that could pick one person out of the total. It is a tally, not a log — there are no rows to join together, because a row is just a date, a word and a number.

It exists so the answer to "is anyone actually using this?" is a number rather than a guess. If that is still one counter too many for you, the app works exactly the same with the update check switched off, and nothing is ever counted for simply reading this page.

Permissions

MiniPrompter asks for none. Not camera, not microphone, not accessibility, not screen recording. The shortcuts that work while another app is in front use an older part of macOS that asks for nothing, rather than the keyboard-watching approach that would require permission to control your computer. That was a deliberate trade and it is why every combination has to include Control or Option.

Where your script actually lives

Two places, both on your Mac:

• Whatever is on screen is saved continuously to ~/Library/Application Support/MiniPrompter/, so a crash never loses your words.
• Saving with ⌘S writes an ordinary Markdown or text file wherever you choose.

Deleting the app and that folder removes everything MiniPrompter has ever written.

Questions

The app's own Questions page says the same things in the same words, because it is the same source. If something here is unclear, that page is where to look next.