Privacy

Buddy runs on your Mac and keeps what it knows there. We don't have accounts, don't collect analytics, and don't sell or share anything. This page says what leaves your devices, where it goes, and why.

What a buddy reads

A buddy reads the window you attach it to, through macOS Accessibility, and (only if you allow Screen Recording) pictures of that window. It reads when you ask it something or when a job you set up runs.

Claude

To answer you, Buddy sends what its window shows and your message to Anthropic, through its own copy of Claude Code signed in with your Claude account. That use is between you and Anthropic, under your agreement with them and their privacy policy. We never see it.

Kept on your Mac

Your buddies, chats, lists, widgets and jobs are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/Buddy. Sign-ins to services you connect, and anything you mark secret in your lists, are kept in your Mac's Keychain. Deleting that folder removes them.

Services you connect

When you connect a service (for example your calendar), Buddy signs in to it directly and keeps the sign-in in your Keychain. Buddy talks to that service only when a buddy uses it for you, and asks first where you've told it to.

Buddy for iPhone

The phone and your Mac pair with each other directly and seal every message end to end: only they can open them. Messages pass through our relay (on Cloudflare), which forwards sealed messages it can't read, holds them briefly while a device is away, and uses your phone's notification token to wake it through Apple. The relay keeps no history beyond that.

Updates and downloads

Buddy checks for updates once a day by fetching a small file from our download server, and downloads updates and Claude Code from their publishers. Those servers see your IP address, as any website does.

Calls

Recording a call is off unless you turn it on and ask for it. When you do, the recording is processed by the recording service named in the app at that time, and deleted there once your transcript is made.

Children

Buddy isn't meant for children under 13.

Questions

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