Your monitoring data stays on your Mac. No advertising trackers. Scope does not upload your system-monitoring data to us or sell your personal information.
Scope reads information from macOS to show you what your Mac is doing. It keeps what it needs on your Mac, in its own container, a folder macOS keeps private to Scope. It has no account, no analytics and no advertising, and no Scope server receives your readings, your process names, your drive statistics, your battery readings or your network history.
What stays on your Mac
| Information | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| CPU, GPU, RAM, drive, network and battery readings | Live readings, explanations and charts | In memory. Charts cover up to ten minutes, the battery’s charge history an hour, and reset when Scope quits |
| Process lists for CPU and RAM | Showing which apps are busy | In memory, only while the panel is open |
| Network use by app | Which apps moved the most data, from the last minute to the last 24 hours | 24 hours of app names, where each app is on your Mac, and byte counts. Never destinations or page contents |
| Network totals per connection | Data usage over time | Detail for about 24 hours; running totals until you delete Scope’s data |
| Speed test results | Comparing tests over time | Your last ten results for each kind of test |
| Preferences | Your layout, drives, limits, alert choices and the folders you allowed | Until you change them |
Alerts compare readings Scope already takes. To name the app or file behind an alert, Scope looks only while that alert is on screen and keeps no history of it.
When Scope connects to the internet
- The internet speed test runs only when you click Test speed. It uses Apple’s speed test service, which receives the test traffic and your connection details, such as your IP address. Scope keeps the result on your Mac.
- Scope Pro is bought through the Mac App Store. Apple handles the purchase, and Scope reads Apple’s signed purchase record on your Mac. Scope sends nothing to a server of its own.
- Links you click, such as this website or System Settings, open where they point, and those have their own practices.
Permissions you control
Scope runs in Apple’s App Sandbox, like every Mac App Store app. It asks for two things, both optional, and only when you choose the action that needs them:
- Location, only so macOS will show your Wi-Fi network’s name. Scope never asks for your coordinates or keeps a location history. Without it, Scope simply says Wi-Fi.
- Your home folder or a drive, for Largest files and for speed tests on other drives. Scope asks once, in a standard Mac Open panel. Scope only reads your home folder.
Launch Scope at login is a switch in Preferences. Scope uses no privileged helper.
While a Scope panel is open, Scope notices a click outside it, so the panel can close. It never learns where or in what, and it stops listening when no panel is open.
Your files
Largest files asks Spotlight, on your Mac, for the biggest files in the place you allowed, and shows their names, folders and sizes in the panel. The drive speed test writes a temporary file of its own and removes it; your files are never opened for writing. Reports and chart exports are saved only where you choose.
Removing Scope’s data
Clear history… removes a speed test’s saved results. Quitting Scope and deleting its container folder, in Library › Containers, removes everything it saved.
This website
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Contact
Questions about privacy or security: [email protected].
Last updated September 28, 2026.