Your work stays on your Mac.

Dev Tools 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.

Dev Tools 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 Dev Tools.

Dev Tools 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: Dev Tools 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; Dev Tools never sees your password or biometric data.

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

Everything Dev Tools 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 no data is collected, there is no consent to revoke and nothing to request deletion of from DevsMind; turning off an optional feature such as clipboard capture or the breach check stops that processing immediately.

If you download or purchase Dev Tools 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).

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If Dev Tools’ data practices ever change, this policy will be updated before those changes appear in the app. For privacy questions, contact hello@designervenkat.online.

Dev Tools is made by DevsMind.