Privacy

Your keys stay on your Mac.

Woodpecker plays a sound for each key you press, and that is where your keys stop. It records nothing you type and collects nothing about you. Here is everything it reads, what it keeps, the two things it sends, and what this website does.

What Woodpecker reads, and why

Woodpecker reads these on your Mac, only to do its job. None of it leaves your Mac.

• Which key went down or came up, and when, so it can play that key's sound. It needs Accessibility permission for keys you press in other apps, and it only listens: it cannot type, press or change a key. It never keeps what you type.
• Whether your microphone is in use, so it can be quiet on calls. Only whether, never what the microphone hears. Woodpecker never opens the microphone itself.
• Whether a password field has focus. macOS keeps those keys from every app anyway.
• Which app is in front, so it can stay quiet in apps you choose.
• Your sound output, so Headphones only knows when you are on headphones.
• How long ago you last touched the keyboard, mouse or trackpad, so the sound is ready the moment you type. Only a time, never what you did.

There are no analytics in the app.

What stays on your Mac

• Your settings: the switch you picked, the sound settings and the quiet rules.
• Your license key.

What goes online, and only this

• License checks, to Dodo Payments, our merchant of record: your license key and a name for this Mac, so one key can count its three Macs.
• Update checks, to everydaymactools.com: Woodpecker asks for the list of versions. Updates download only from everydaymactools.com.

Buying opens the checkout in your browser.

This website

This site uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies, to count visits and see which pages people read. It knows nothing about what you type in Woodpecker, and Woodpecker itself does not use it.

The sound demo on the home page runs in your browser. The keys you type there are played and shown on the page, and never sent anywhere.

Checkout happens on Dodo Payments, who handle your payment details under their own privacy policy. We receive your email address and the order, so we can send your key and help if something goes wrong.

Questions

Email hey@everydaymactools.com. Woodpecker is made by Everyday Mac Tools, a house label of Caretopia Network Private Limited. See also our company privacy policy.

Acknowledgements

Woodpecker's switches are cut, cleaned and levelled from recordings in two MIT-licensed open source projects. The sounds in the app and on this page are made from those recordings and are shared under the same licenses. Thank you to their authors.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Hai Nguyen

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Copyright (c) Thomas Lai

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.