DClutterPrivacy
DClutter has no account, no server, and no analytics, on either macOS or Windows. There is no code in the macOS app that opens a network connection, so there is nothing for it to send and nowhere to send it.
What the app touches
File names, file contents, and the previews you see are read on your own machine while the app is open. None of it is copied anywhere else.
On macOS, DClutter runs inside the App Sandbox. It can read and write your Downloads folder, plus any folder you pick yourself as a destination, and it cannot reach anything else. When you choose a destination, macOS hands the app a security-scoped bookmark so that folder is still reachable next time. The bookmark covers that folder and nothing around it.
On Windows, DClutter is a Tauri app. The interface ships inside it rather than being fetched, and every file operation runs locally. Windows has no equivalent of the App Sandbox, so the app runs with your own account’s permissions rather than inside an enforced boundary. It reads the download source of a file from the Zone.Identifier stream Windows already attaches to it.
What the app stores
Your progress through a folder is saved so you can close the app and pick the session back up. On macOS it is one JSON file per source folder, written inside the app’s own sandbox container under ~/Library/Application Support, named after a hash of the folder’s path rather than the path itself. The Windows build keeps the same per-folder session state in its own application data directory.
It holds the decisions you made and which files are still staged. Deleting the app removes it.
What the app deletes
Nothing, directly. Staged files stay on disk until you confirm, and confirming moves them to the Trash, where you can still get them back. The app has no code path that erases a file outright.
This website
The site is a set of static files. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and has no forms or sign-ins. The two typefaces are served from the same place as the page, so loading them does not call out to a font service.
Whoever hosts the site will keep ordinary server logs, which normally include IP addresses. That is the host’s doing rather than something the page asks for.
GitHub counts on this website
When the GitHub metrics section comes into view, your browser asks GitHub for the public download, star, fork, and release counts of the two repositories. GitHub receives your IP address and browser information with those requests. File names, file contents, and sorting decisions are never part of them. The public counts are cached in session storage for fifteen minutes to reduce repeat requests.
Downloading the app
The download buttons point at GitHub Releases, so the files come from GitHub rather than from here. GitHub can see your IP address and browser when you fetch it, under their privacy statement. These download requests are separate from the app, which works offline.
Your rights
There is no account to close and no data of yours held anywhere to request, correct, or erase. Everything DClutter knows about your files is on your own machine, and deleting the app takes it with it.
Changes
If this ever stops being true, this page changes first, and the reason will be in the release notes. The source is public, so you can check any of the above yourself: github.com/RokiTheWise/DClutter and github.com/RokiTheWise/DClutter-Windows.
Last updated 19 October 2026.