Privacy Policy

Effective: August 6, 2026 · Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tellshot is a macOS application developed by Agoraxa inc. This policy covers the Tellshot app and this website (tellshot.com). It describes what data they handle — and, more importantly, what they don't.

Data that stays on your Mac

Screenshots, annotations, comments, page info, templates, editing history, review documents, and settings are processed and stored entirely on your Mac — including OCR and sensitive-text detection, which run locally. Tellshot has no account system and no telemetry on your content.

• Where: images you save go to the folder you choose (Pictures/Tellshot by default); app data lives in your user Library's Application Support folder.
• History keeps originals: so you can re-edit later, History stores the original image as captured, before masks are burned in. You can turn this off in Settings → History, and delete any session from the History window.
• Deleting everything: remove the app and its Application Support folder. There is nothing to delete on our side, because we never had your data.

Update checks (Sparkle)

Tellshot checks for updates by fetching a public update feed hosted on GitHub Pages, and downloads updates from GitHub Releases. These are standard web requests: GitHub's servers see your IP address and a user-agent string, per GitHub's privacy statement. Sparkle's optional system profiling is not enabled — Tellshot sends no information about your system with the check. You can disable automatic checks in Settings → General.

Crash reports (optional, anonymized)

To help us fix bugs, Tellshot can send a crash report via Sentry when the app crashes fatally — and only then. Reports are aggressively stripped before sending. Each report contains:

• a symbol-level stack trace (function names, no file paths),
• the app's version, build number, and bundle identifier,
• the macOS version and CPU architecture (Apple silicon / Intel).

A report never includes your screenshots, annotations, comments, history, clipboard contents, file paths, device name, or any user identifier. Sentry's default personal-data collection is disabled, so no IP address or user context is recorded on the event. Reports are retained by Sentry for a limited period (typically 90 days) and then deleted automatically.

Crash reporting is on by default during the beta and can be turned off any time in Settings → General → Privacy.

macOS permissions

• Screen Recording (required): how macOS lets apps capture the screen. Used only at the moment you take a screenshot; nothing is recorded in the background.
• Accessibility (optional): if you grant it, Tellshot can read UI element info (like button labels) around your pins to enrich the copied context. The app works fully without it, never prompts for it, and the data it reads stays on your Mac like everything else.

This website

tellshot.com is a static site served by Cloudflare, whose infrastructure keeps standard server logs (IP address, requested page) per Cloudflare's privacy policy. For page-view counts we use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookie-less and does not identify individual visitors. The site sets no cookies and embeds no advertising or social trackers. Downloads are served from GitHub Releases.

Third-party services

• Sentry (crash reports, optional) — privacy policy
• GitHub (downloads & update feed) — privacy statement
• Cloudflare (website hosting & analytics) — privacy policy

No other third party receives any data from Tellshot or this site.

Your rights

Because Tellshot keeps no account and records no personal identifiers, there is normally nothing on our side to disclose, correct, or delete. If you have any question about your data, contact us and we'll help.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Tellshot evolves. Material changes will be announced in the release notes, with the “last updated” date above revised.

Contact

Agoraxa inc. — support@tellshot.com