Overview
ShotSumo is a private screenshotter: a native macOS app that captures and annotates screenshots entirely on your Mac and never sends anything anywhere. It does not collect, transmit, or store any of your data outside your own machine. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no user account of any kind.
What ShotSumo collects
Nothing. ShotSumo has no network access at all, so nothing it handles can leave your Mac. Screenshots you capture, and the annotations you make on them, stay on your machine unless you explicitly copy or save them yourself — and you choose where they go.
This isn't just a policy: in this version (1.0.0), the
com.apple.security.network.client entitlement is dropped from the app entirely, so
network access is not merely unused — it is absent from what the app is even permitted to do.
Screen Recording permission
ShotSumo asks macOS for Screen Recording permission the first time you use it, through the operating system's own permission prompt. This permission is required for the app to capture your screen at all. Nothing is captured without an explicit action from you — a menu item or a keyboard shortcut you chose to trigger.
Where your files go
Copied screenshots go to your system clipboard. Saved screenshots are written only to the folder you've configured in Preferences — by default, your Downloads folder — as a PNG file. ShotSumo does not upload them anywhere.
Subscriptions and payments (future versions)
Version 1.0.0 has no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no payments of any kind — there is nothing to buy and nothing billed. A future version of ShotSumo may add an optional, auto-renewing subscription, sold and processed entirely by Apple through the Mac App Store and StoreKit. If and when that ships, ShotSumo will still never see or handle your payment details — Apple will, under Apple's own Privacy Policy — and the only network traffic ShotSumo will be responsible for is the standard StoreKit traffic used to verify a purchase. Nothing else about this policy changes. This page will be updated before that version ships.
This website
This site is static HTML with no cookies, no analytics, and no tracking scripts of any kind. It's hosted on GitHub Pages; GitHub's own hosting infrastructure may log standard web-server data (such as IP addresses) as part of normal operation, independent of ShotSumo — see GitHub's Privacy Statement.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the update will be posted here with a new "Last updated" date above.
Contact
Questions about this policy: feedback@tips-flow.com.