Privacy
Chute collects nothing about you. Here is exactly what that means, and where the two exceptions are.
Last updated 27 August 2026.
The app
Chute has no analytics, no crash reporter, no telemetry and no account system. It does not know who you are and has no way to find out. There is no “anonymous usage data”, because there is no code that sends anything.
Everything Chute writes stays on your Mac: ~/.chute/ for session state and pending Finder requests, and ~/Library/Application Support/Chute/ for your trial dates and licence key. You can delete both at any time.
The one exception, in full
chute gist. This command, and only when you run it, uploads the files you name to GitHub as a secret gist using your own GitHub credentials. It redacts API keys and tokens before uploading. Nothing else in Chute sends a file anywhere.
This website
No analytics of any kind. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no advertising pixels, no session recording, and no script that counts you. There is nothing here that would let us identify a visitor, or tell us that you visited at all.
Payment data
There is none. Chute is free and MIT licensed: there is no store, no checkout, no payment processor and no customer record, because nothing is sold. Until 2026-09-08 this section described Paddle as merchant of record for a paid licence. That product no longer exists, and neither does the data it would have collected.
Your rights
Ask and we will tell you everything we hold about you (an email address and a purchase record) or delete it. Email [email protected]. Deleting your record does not deactivate your licence, because your licence was never checked against a server in the first place.
Verifying all of this
You do not have to take our word for it. Chute is open source — search it for network code. There is one HTTP call in the whole product, and it is the gist command.