PortGlimpse privacy policy

In short

• PortGlimpse reads which ports are listening, and which processes hold them, only to show them to you. None of it is stored or sent anywhere.
• It has no account, no analytics and no tracking, and collects no data about you.
• The only network request it makes is an optional daily check for a newer release, which you can turn off.

What it reads

To draw its panel, PortGlimpse asks macOS which network ports are listening on your Mac, and reads each process’s name, command, folder and owner. With Show all users’ ports on, it also reads the system’s list of listening sockets, which includes other accounts’ processes.

This is read afresh every time the list refreshes and kept only in memory while PortGlimpse runs. It is never written to disk, logged or sent.

The network

Once a day, if Settings → Check for updates is on (it is by default), PortGlimpse asks https://api.github.com/repos/Zewify/portglimpse/releases/latest for the latest version number. Nothing about your ports or processes is included. GitHub sees the request’s IP address and the standard user agent macOS sends, which names PortGlimpse’s version and your macOS version, under its own privacy policy.

The installer command contacts the same host to find the latest release, and downloads it from GitHub.

Opening a server in your browser from the panel loads that local address, on your own Mac.

What stays on your Mac

PortGlimpse keeps its settings in its preferences, ~/Library/Preferences/com.zewify.portglimpse.plist, and the programs you told it to always show or hide in ~/Library/Application Support/PortGlimpse/overrides.json. Nothing it keeps is synced or uploaded anywhere.

Deleting everything

Turn off Settings → Launch at login, quit PortGlimpse, then delete the app, the folder ~/Library/Application Support/PortGlimpse/ and the file ~/Library/Preferences/com.zewify.portglimpse.plist. There is nothing held anywhere else to ask us to delete.

Changes

If PortGlimpse ever starts keeping or sending something new, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions about this policy go to support@zewify.com.