Privacy

Short, because there is little to describe, and specific about the one thing that does leave your machine.

This website

No analytics. No cookies. No local storage except one entry, md-theme, which records whether you chose light, dark or system and never leaves your browser. No third party scripts, no fonts loaded from anyone else's server, no embedded video, no tracking pixel, no consent banner, because there is nothing to consent to.

The site is static files on a server. That server keeps standard access logs containing an IP address, a timestamp and the path requested, for as long as it takes to notice an outage. Nothing is correlated with anything and nothing is shared.

Search runs entirely in your browser. The index is downloaded when you first open the search box, and every query is answered locally. Your search terms are never sent anywhere.

The app: what it does not do

There is no analytics, no crash reporting service, no account and no telemetry. There is no server belonging to this project, so there is nowhere for anything to go.

Nothing listens on a network port. The command line tool reaches the app through a unix socket in your own support directory, which only a process running as you can open. The privileged service for the login window listens on nothing at all, and is not installed unless you ask for it.

A licence key is checked on your own Mac, against a number inside the app. Nothing about it is sent anywhere, there is no activation step, and there is no way for anyone here to learn whether you entered one.

The app can check this site for a newer version. That is a request for one file, made when you choose Check for Updates from the menu bar item, and at no other time, and it is the only outbound request the app makes. It carries no identifier and sets no cookie; what a static web server logs about it is the same IP address, timestamp and path it logs for anybody reading this page.

What goes to iCloud, and what does not

Only the shared library: the groups themselves, and the record of which groups were deleted. Everything about the machine stays on the machine.

Leaves this Mac	Stays on this Mac
Group names, displays, arrangement, main display, symbol, shortcut	Which group is currently active
The record of deletions, with dates	Every setting, including this one
	Backups, which are local files

It goes to your own iCloud account, in key-value storage under the app's identifier. It is readable by you and by Apple under the same terms as anything else in your iCloud, and by nobody connected to this project. There is no server here to receive it.

Worth knowing: a group name is text you chose, and if you name a group after a client or a project, that name is what travels. Turning the switch off stops anything further going up.

Support bundles

Settings can export a support bundle. It is written to a file you choose and is never uploaded. It contains a manifest of build and machine facts, your configuration, the app's own log entries from the last day, and the display topology, and it can read from nowhere else.

It is a zip of plain files, so open it before you attach it to anything. Your group names are in there.

$ unzip -l ~/Desktop/MoreDisplays-support.zip
  Length   Name
  -------  ----
     4821  manifest.json
    18240  config.json
    96114  log.txt
     2903  topology.json

Your data, wherever it is

Groups, settings and backups live in ~/Library/Application Support/MoreDisplays on your own machine. Deleting that directory deletes all of it. The uninstall guide lists every path the app writes to, and how to remove the iCloud copy.

If this ever changes

Any change to this page will be recorded in the development log in the same commit. The site's build fails if an analytics script is ever enabled while this page still says there is none, which is a small guarantee but a real one.

Questions

support@moredisplays.com. That address is also where to send a security report; there is no public tracker to file one on.

Last updated 20 August 2026.