Private by design.

What stays on your Mac

Reminder preferences, active-work counters, completion history, pause state, and training settings are stored locally. Small Pause checks idle time and the frontmost app identifier only to decide whether active computer work is happening.

Small Pause does not read code, documents, screenshots, window text, clipboard contents, or keystrokes.

AI hook events

If a Pro user enables the optional AI hook, a local helper sends only an event name such as thinking_started and a short tool label to 127.0.0.1 on the same Mac. The listener is not exposed to the local network or internet.

Purchases and licences

Purchases are processed by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record. Its checkout receives the billing and payment information you provide. Small Pause sends the licence key, a generated device identifier, and the Mac's local device name to Lemon Squeezy when activating, validating, or deactivating Pro. The licence key and instance details are stored in macOS Keychain.

Website

The website does not use advertising trackers. Cloudflare may process standard request data such as IP address, browser information, and security logs to deliver and protect the site. Your language preference is stored in browser local storage.

Your choices

You can disable system notifications, sound, individual office actions, AI hooks, and pelvic-floor practice. You can pause reminders, deactivate a Pro licence, or remove the app and its local data.

Contact

Privacy questions can be sent to support@smallpause.app.