Cleanr

Cleanr privacy policy

Last updated 29 October 2026

The short version

  • No account, no sign-up, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.
  • Your files, clipboard, notes and photos stay on your Mac. The only thing Cleanr sends over the internet is a license check with Polar, in the direct download, once you enter a key.
  • Camera and microphone are only used while you're looking at them, and nothing is recorded unless you ask.
  • Purchases go through Apple (Mac App Store) or Polar (direct download). We never see your card.

Who we are

Cleanr is made by Fundr. Studio; its main developer is John Richie Campo. Questions about this policy or your data go to [email protected].

What stays on your Mac

Everything Cleanr makes or remembers is stored on your Mac, in your user folders. We can't see any of it, and deleting Cleanr and its folder deletes it.

  • Swipe Wipe: the files you chose to keep (remembered for 30 days so they don't come back), and your recent batches so you can undo them. Wiped files go to the macOS Trash, never deleted outright.
  • Clipboard History (only if you turn it on): up to 100 recent items you copied. Cleanr skips anything an app marks as private, such as passwords from a password manager. You can clear it or turn it off at any time.
  • TranscQuick: your notepad text, saved as you type.
  • QuickShot: photos you take, saved to Pictures › Cleanr QuickShots.
  • Settings and small counters, such as how many cleaning sessions you've run. They power reminders and never leave your Mac.

Permissions, and what each one is for

  • Accessibility (direct download only): lets Cleaning Mode hold your keyboard and trackpad still while you wipe them. Key presses are blocked, not recorded.
  • Folders and Full Disk Access: lets Cleanr show your Desktop, Downloads, Screenshots and Trash and move what you choose. Files are never uploaded.
  • Camera: for the Camera & Mic check and QuickMirror. The picture is shown live and thrown away; only a QuickShot you take is saved.
  • Microphone: shows your mic level. "Hear yourself" records 5 seconds to a temporary file, plays it back, then deletes it.

macOS asks before Cleanr gets any of these, and you can turn each one off in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

System readings

CPU, memory and disk numbers in the menu bar and around the notch are read from macOS on your Mac. They aren't stored or sent anywhere.

Purchases

Mac App Store: Cleanr Pro is bought through Apple. Apple handles the payment and tells the app what you own; we receive no personal details from it.

Direct download: Cleanr Pro is sold through Polar (polar.sh), which acts as the merchant and handles payment, tax and receipts. Polar shares your email address, what you bought and your country with us so we can deliver your purchase and help you. We keep that record while it's needed to support your purchase and for the tax and accounting records the law requires. Polar's own privacy policy covers what it keeps.

License checks (direct download): Polar emails you a license key. When you enter it, and about once a day after that, Cleanr sends Polar the key, a random-looking ID made from your Mac (a one-way hash, never its serial number or hardware ID), your Mac's model name (for example "Mac15,12") and Cleanr's version. That's how a key is limited to 3 Macs and how Pro turns off when a subscription ends or is refunded. Without a connection, Pro keeps working for 30 days. Nothing else goes with it: no files, usage or personal details.

Reviews (Mac App Store version)

In the Mac App Store version, now and then, after things go well, Cleanr may ask macOS to show Apple's own rating prompt. Apple decides whether it appears and handles anything you submit; Cleanr never learns what you rated.

What Cleanr never does

  • No ads, and no advertising ID.
  • No analytics, crash reporting or tracking across apps and websites.
  • No uploading of your files, clipboard, photos or notes.
  • We don't sell or share your data with anyone.

This website

fundrstudio.com/cleanr uses no analytics or tracking cookies. When you click Download, we add one to an anonymous count of downloads per day; nothing about you is stored with it. Like any website, our host (Vercel) keeps short-lived technical logs such as IP addresses to keep the site running and safe.

Where data is handled

Polar and our website host, Vercel, may handle the little data described above in the United States or other countries, which may have different data protection laws from yours. They do so under their own safeguards and privacy policies.

Children

Cleanr asks nobody for a name or email and doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your choices and rights

You can use Cleanr without any permission you don't want; the features that need it simply stay off. Email [email protected] to ask what we hold about you (usually nothing, or just a purchase record from Polar), to correct it or to delete it. Depending on where you live (for example under the EU and UK GDPR, or the Philippines' Data Privacy Act), you may also complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes too. If Cleanr ever starts collecting something new, we'll say so here and in the update notes before it does.