TL;DR
Resonance is a local macOS utility. It does not collect analytics, telemetry, crash reports, usage data, or any other information. It never records audio. No data ever leaves your Mac.
What Resonance accesses on your Mac
- Audio devices (via Apple’s CoreAudio APIs) — to enumerate connected inputs/outputs, read and set volume, mute state, and default device. This is a local, on-device operation that macOS provides to any audio application.
- Your microphone permission — granted to read and set microphone state (mute, volume) and to make global mute / push-to-talk shortcuts work. Resonance never opens an audio input stream to capture or record sound.
- Your preferences — stored locally on your Mac via Apple’s
UserDefaultsAPI (the standard macOS preferences store). Contents include your safety-net thresholds, default-volume preferences, keyboard shortcut bindings, and which device is pinned. - Keyboard shortcuts — registered globally so your mute / push-to-talk bindings work outside the app. Key events are handled locally by macOS.
What Resonance does not do
- No network requests. The app does not phone home, check for updates automatically, or contact any server.
- No analytics, no crash reporting, no product telemetry — neither first-party nor third-party.
- No advertising identifiers, no tracking domains, no cookies.
- No audio capture or recording, ever.
- No access to contacts, calendars, photos, files, location, camera, or any other system resource beyond audio devices.
Third parties
Resonance has no third-party SDKs, analytics, or services bundled. The only external dependency at runtime is Apple’s own CoreAudio and related system frameworks.
Updates
Updates are delivered through the Mac App Store. The App Store handles the download and install — Resonance itself never contacts a server, never checks for updates, and never installs anything on its own.
GDPR, CCPA and similar
Because Resonance does not collect or process personal data, it has nothing to store, share, export, or delete on your behalf. If you wish to remove the app and all of its local preferences:
- Open Launchpad, click and hold the Resonance icon, then click the × that appears.
- Optional: remove local preferences with
defaults delete com.resonance.appin Terminal.
Contact
Privacy questions: deimosfr+resonance-support@gmail.com