Privacy

Last updated 15 November 2026

The short version

Nothing about your files leaves your Mac. The app has no account and no analytics. This website sets no cookies and counts page views with Litlyx, which stores nothing in your browser.

The app

• No account, no sign-in.
• Stored on your Mac only: your rules, History and settings.
• Run on your Mac: reading files, recognising text in scans, and Apple Intelligence (titles and Magic Rules). FileMoth downloads no model and calls no AI service.
• No analytics.

FileMoth 1.0 makes the requests below, each with its own switch in Settings. None of them carries a file name or anything about your files.

• Update check. Asks filemoth.app whether there is a new version. It carries nothing about you.
• Licence. One request to the shop when you enter a licence key.
• Public count. Off until you choose it. Once a day, one number: how many files were sorted. No names, nothing that identifies you or your Mac.

Places (planned for version 1.2) will look up a photo's place offline by default. An optional, more precise lookup through Apple Maps would send a photo's coordinates to Apple. It will be off by default, and this page will say so when it ships.

This website

• No cookies and no forms. Nothing is stored in your browser.
• Page views are counted with Litlyx. For each page you open, the script sends the site name, the page path, the page you came from, your browser's user agent and any utm_ campaign tags in the link to Litlyx's server. It sends no file names and nothing about the app. The script is served from filemoth.app.
• Fonts and images are served from filemoth.app itself, not from Google or another third party.
• Like any web server, the server that hosts this site receives your IP address with each request.

Who is responsible

Sam. Questions about privacy: hey@filemoth.app.