Privacy
Last updated: 8 May 2026
Tostato is built to leave no trace beyond what you actually use it for. It runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing about how you use it is collected, transmitted, or stored anywhere outside the device.
What Tostato does not collect
- No analytics. Tostato does not record events, usage, or performance metrics.
- No tracking. There is no advertising identifier, no fingerprinting, no third-party SDK.
- No network calls. The app does not contact any server — neither ours, nor anyone else's.
- No account. There is nothing to sign up for and no identity attached to the app.
- No cloud sync. Your settings and history never leave the Mac.
What stays on your Mac
Tostato saves your preferences (which protections are enabled, your default duration, whether to show the countdown in the menu bar) using standard macOS user defaults. It also keeps local statistics about how often you activate it and how long sessions last, so you can review them in the app. All of this lives in your user account on your Mac. None of it is transmitted.
Permissions
Tostato runs sandboxed, with the standard App Sandbox entitlement and nothing else. It does not request Accessibility, Screen Recording, Full Disk Access, Input Monitoring, or any other special permission. The power management it performs is done through Apple's public IOPMAssertion API, which is available to any sandboxed Mac app.
Third-party services
Tostato is distributed through the Mac App Store. Apple's own privacy policy applies to your purchase or download interaction with the store. Once installed, Tostato itself does not connect to Apple's servers, our servers, or anyone else's.
Children
Tostato is a general-audience utility. It does not collect any personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes
If anything about how Tostato handles data ever changes, this page will be updated and the "Last updated" date above will reflect the change.
Contact
Questions or concerns? Reach out via the developer profile on the Mac App Store listing.