Privacy Policy

All of this is kept locally on your Mac:

• Your Pops — names, contents, sort orders, colors, and icon choices.
• Per-Pop preferences — popover columns, “Show in Carousel,” and “Match Dock icon color.”
• Launch counts — how often you open each app from DockPops, used locally for the “Most Used” sort order. Never sent anywhere.
• Onboarding state — whether you've seen the welcome sheet.
• Purchase status — a single flag indicating you've bought Premium.

• In your Mac's standard application preferences.
• Custom Pop icons (PNGs you import) live inside the app's own folder on your Mac.
• Nothing is stored on any DockPops server. We don't have one.

Almost nothing. The complete list of network activity DockPops can produce:

• Favicon fetches — when you save a link to a Pop, DockPops fetches a small icon file from the site's own domain so the link looks right in your grid. One short request per saved URL; no other data is included.
• When you click an item that opens a URL, your browser makes the request — not DockPops.
• When you click “Download Companion” in the Multiple Dock Icons tab, that's a normal browser download from GitHub.
• When you buy Premium or restore a purchase, StoreKit talks to Apple's servers. DockPops never sees your Apple ID or payment information.
• When you email support — only if you choose to.

Aside from favicon fetches, DockPops never reaches the internet on its own.

SmartyPops uses on-device AI via Apple Intelligence (macOS 26+). The model runs entirely on your Mac — your Pops, your apps, and your suggestions never leave the device. If your Mac doesn't support Apple Intelligence, SmartyPops falls back to a built-in heuristic that uses only your installed-app categories: no AI, also fully offline.

When you share a link into DockPops from Safari or another app, the Share Extension reads only the URL you explicitly shared. It does not read your browsing history, your open tabs, or anything else.

DockPops Companion is a free sibling app that provides extra Dock icons for your Pops. It communicates with DockPops locally on your Mac and has no network access of its own, no analytics, and no tracking. It stores nothing on any server.

DockPops contains no analytics SDKs, no crash reporters that phone home, and no usage tracking. If something goes wrong and you choose to share a crash report, macOS offers to send it to Apple — and from Apple to us — only at your discretion.

This policy applies to DockPops whether you install it from the Mac App Store or download it directly from our website. Both builds behave the same way with respect to your data. App Store purchases are handled by Apple; direct downloads are notarized by Apple and check for updates by fetching a small, signed update file from our public releases page — no personal data is sent.

If we change how DockPops handles data, we'll update this page and the “Last updated” date above. Because DockPops collects no data, changes are expected to be rare.

Questions about privacy? Email dockpops@applacat.com.

DockPops is made by Applacat LLC.