Your Mac, your data.

What stays on your Mac

• Clipboard history, Shelf items, notes, timers and recent captures are kept only on your Mac, in Orbia's folder (~/Library/Application Support/Orbia) and its settings.
• AI agents: Orbia reads the session files Claude Code and Codex already write (~/.claude and ~/.codex) to tell when they are working. Nothing is sent anywhere.
• Downloads: Orbia looks at the names of files in your Downloads folder.
• System readings (CPU, temperatures, fans, battery) are read from your Mac and never leave it.
• The sound bars only measure loudness; nothing is recorded or saved.
• Screenshots and recordings are saved where you choose, on your Mac.

What leaves your Mac

• Weather sends your approximate position (rounded to about 1 km) to Open-Meteo each time it checks (every 30 minutes unless you change it). Turn weather off under Notices to stop this.
• Software updates: when Homebrew is installed, Orbia runs brew update and brew outdated every six hours, which download Homebrew's package list. Turn this off under Notices.
• Lyrics (off unless you turn them on): the song's title, artist and album go to LRCLIB, when you open lyrics.
• Spotify (only if you connect it): Orbia asks Spotify's Web API for your queue and Liked Songs, with a key kept in a file only your account can read. Spotify's lyrics are read from its window on your Mac and never sent anywhere.
• Your license: when you enter a license key, Orbia sends the key and your Mac's name to Polar (api.polar.sh), so the Mac shows in your list of Macs. Every few days it checks the key with Polar again.
• Orbia's own updates: Orbia asks orbia.depentra.com for the latest version, to tell you when an update is ready.

Buying Orbia

Payments are handled by Polar, which sells Orbia for us and takes care of sales tax. Polar collects what it needs for the purchase, like your email and payment details; see Polar's privacy policy. We see your email and your order, not your card.

Questions

Get in touch through depentra.com.