Privacy

Last updated 9 November 2026

Nodtop is a Mac app that shows your coding agents' status around the notch or Dynamic Island and lets you answer their permission prompts. In short: what your agents do stays on your Mac. Nodtop has no accounts, no analytics and no telemetry.

What the app handles, and where it stays

Agent events. Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI send status events to Nodtop over a local connection on your Mac (127.0.0.1), protected by a token stored on your Mac. Nothing about them is sent anywhere else.
Permission requests, questions and plans. The command, file change or question is shown on the card and kept in memory only while it waits. It is never written to disk, logged or sent off your Mac.
The last reply preview. If switched on (the default), the first two lines of your agent's last reply are kept in memory to show under a finished session, and cleared at your next prompt. You can turn this off in Settings.
Usage and context. Claude Code's usage limits and context are read from its status line on your Mac. Codex's are read by running your own codex command, which talks to OpenAI with your Codex account, as Codex always does. Nodtop never contacts Anthropic or OpenAI itself.
AirPods. Head motion is read only while a request is waiting for a nod or a press, processed on your Mac, and never stored. If you practise nods, only a few numbers describing your nod are saved, never the motion.
Spoken status. Speech uses voices on your Mac and plays only through headphones.
Settings. Your preferences, counts of answered prompts and usage readings are stored on your Mac, in the app's own settings and support folder.

What leaves your Mac

Update checks. Nodtop checks downloads.nodtop.com for new versions, which you can turn off in Settings. The request carries the app's version, as any download does, and no information about your Mac or your work. Our host, Cloudflare, sees the request's IP address, as any web server does.
Nothing else. Nodtop doesn't collect crash reports, usage statistics or any identifier.

This website

nodtop.com is hosted by Cloudflare. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising. If you choose a language, that choice is kept in your browser's local storage. Cloudflare processes your IP address to deliver the pages and protect the site.

Buying Nodtop

Purchases are handled by our reseller, Lemon Squeezy, which is the merchant of record. Lemon Squeezy processes your payment and billing details under its own privacy policy. We receive your name, email address and order details, and use them only to provide your licence, refunds and support. We never see your card details.

Email

If you write to us, we use your message and address only to reply. We don't add you to any list without asking.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you (usually only an order and emails), and ask us to correct or delete it, by writing to support@nodtop.com. Everything the app stores is on your Mac: removing the app, its folder ~/Library/Application Support/Nodtop and its preferences removes it.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its date. A change that sends more information off your Mac would be announced in the release notes first.