Your work stays on your Mac.

Developers Kit can process content you paste or type into its tools, such as JWTs, JSON payloads, text diffs, environment values, passwords, SQL queries and their results, clipboard history — including text recognized from images you copy — and port listings with their owning processes. All of this is processed locally on your Mac. It is never sent to DevsMind, because there is no DevsMind server to send it to.

Developers Kit stores its data in the app’s sandboxed container and the macOS Keychain, and nowhere else:

App container: The password vault (sealed with AES-256-GCM), clipboard history and captured images, database connection profiles (without secrets), and tool preferences.

macOS Keychain: Environment values, database passwords, and the vault key used for Touch ID unlock.

These local records exist only to make the app work and are never transmitted by Developers Kit.

Developers Kit makes exactly two kinds of network connections, both initiated by you:

Your databases: When you configure a database connection, credentials are read from the Keychain and sent only to the server you specify — optionally through your own SSH tunnel. Query data flows between your Mac and your server; DevsMind is never in the middle.

Optional breach check: The password Watchtower can check passwords against the Have I Been Pwned database using k-anonymity: only the first five characters of a SHA-1 hash leave your Mac — never the password, never anything identifying you. Have I Been Pwned receives only this anonymous prefix and cannot reconstruct your password from it. The check is optional and off unless you run it.

Nothing else. No first-party servers, no update pings, no crash reporting.

User-selected files: Developers Kit reads or writes only files you explicitly choose — for example when exporting a .env or CSV file, or opening a SQLite database.

Clipboard history: History is stored locally. Capture skips content marked concealed or transient (such as password managers’ copies), and sensitive-data detection can skip or flag likely secrets. Retention is configurable and history can be cleared at any time.

Touch ID / password: macOS authentication gates secret reveals, exports, and production database writes. Authentication happens entirely in macOS; Developers Kit never sees your password or biometric data.

Global hotkey: The ⌃⌘V clipboard palette uses standard macOS hotkey APIs. Developers Kit does not request Accessibility access and cannot read or control other apps.

Everything Developers Kit stores lives on your Mac, under your control. You can delete individual items in the app — clips, vault items, environments, connection profiles — or remove everything by deleting the app and its container folder (~/Library/Containers/app.devsmind.devtool). Because the app collects no data, there is nothing to request deletion of from DevsMind; turning off an optional feature such as clipboard capture or the breach check stops that processing immediately. Consent for website analytics is managed separately — see “Website privacy” below.

If you download or purchase Developers Kit through the Mac App Store, Apple processes purchase, billing, and App Store account information under Apple’s own privacy terms. DevsMind never receives your payment details.

The app bundle includes a PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifest declaring no collected data and no tracking, and declaring required-reason API usage for app preferences (UserDefaults, reason CA92.1).

This website (developers-kit.com) uses Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the site — and only with your consent. Until you click “Accept” on the cookie banner, no analytics cookies are set and no analytics identifiers are stored (Google Consent Mode v2 with all consent signals denied by default). If you decline, that choice is respected and the site works exactly the same.

What is collected: Anonymous usage data: pages viewed, approximate region derived from an anonymized IP address, device and browser type, and interactions such as clicks on download buttons, demo scenes viewed, and how far you scroll through the features story. We never collect names, email addresses, or any content you type, and we never use the data for advertising.

Cookies used: With consent, Google Analytics sets two first-party cookies: “_ga” and “_ga_*” (random identifiers used to distinguish visitors and sessions, expiring after about 13 months). No other cookies are set, and none are set before you accept.

Legal basis and processor: Processing is based on your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). Google LLC processes this data on our behalf under the Google Ads Data Processing Terms. Google Signals and ad personalization are disabled. Analytics data is retained for 14 months, then deleted automatically.

Withdrawing consent: You can change or withdraw your choice at any time via “Cookie preferences” in the footer of every page — withdrawing is as easy as accepting. You may also delete the cookies in your browser at any time.

The hosting provider may additionally process standard server logs for security, diagnostics, and delivery of the site.

If Developers Kit’ data practices ever change, this policy will be updated before those changes appear in the app. For privacy questions, contact support@developers-kit.com.

Developers Kit is made by DevsMind.