Privacy
The app watches the numbers, not your life.
You should not have to trade privacy for listening awareness. Volume Shield calculates numeric estimates locally, keeps history on your Mac, and never uploads raw audio. Here is exactly what that means.
The app watches the numbers, not your life
Volume Shield reads outgoing system audio only long enough to compute numeric level statistics. Raw audio is never recorded, saved to disk, exported, or transmitted.
It does not collect what you are listening to
No song titles, artist or media metadata, application activity, or microphone content are collected. The app uses the Screen & System Audio Recording permission for outgoing audio and does not request microphone access.
Your listening history stays yours
History is stored locally under the app's Application Support directory as aggregated numbers—level, duration, exposure, confidence, and headphone context. It contains no audio buffers, media titles, or app names.
No account. No cloud profile. No telemetry.
There is no sign-in, analytics upload, or cloud sync. Audio analysis and exposure history stay on your Mac. License activation, validation, and deactivation are the explicit network exception and use Lemon Squeezy over HTTPS; the license key and installation identifier are stored in this Mac's Keychain. Sparkle update checks run only when the update feed is configured, and installation always remains behind your confirmation.
A refund request is used once, then discarded
If you submit the optional self-service refund form, the website sends your checkout email and license key to Lemon Squeezy over HTTPS to verify the purchase and issue the refund. Volume Shield does not save the form details, add them to analytics, or use them for marketing.
You choose what leaves your Mac
Exporting or deleting your exposure history are explicit actions you take in the app, and neither one turns on networking. Deleting removes local history permanently.
What this version does
This summary describes how the 1.0.1 build behaves. It is a plain-language overview, not a contract. If Volume Shield ever adds an optional feature that changes any of the above — for example an opt-in diagnostic upload — that behavior will be disclosed clearly and turned off by default.
Questions about data handling? Visit support.