Privacy

Effective 19 August 2026

Pulse is a local menu-bar health monitor. It does not create an account, talk to our servers, or send telemetry.

What the app stores on your Mac

Service names, URLs, intervals, and last-check history live in ~/Library/Application Support/dev.pulsebar.app/ (typically config.json, services.json, history.sqlite3, and logs/pulse.log). Secret header values are written to the macOS Keychain, not to those files.

What leaves the machine

When you add a check, Pulse makes HTTP(S) requests to the URL you typed. That host sees the request (method, path, headers you configured, and your IP) the same way it would from any client. We do not see those requests. Pulse does not phone home.

This website and downloads

The marketing site is GitHub Pages. Installers are GitHub Releases. Those HTTP requests are handled by GitHub, under GitHub’s privacy policy. They are not processed by the Pulse app.

Logs

Local logs are redacted for header values. They stay on disk unless you copy them somewhere.

Contact

Questions: github.com/praveensankar969/pulse/issues.