Privacy Policy

Last updated 18 September 2026

WakeRanger collects nothing. There is no account, no sign-up, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. Nothing about you or your Mac is ever sent to us, because there is no server of ours for it to be sent to.

That is the whole policy. The rest of this page explains the few things WakeRanger touches on your own Mac, and the one thing it talks to that is not us, so you can check the claim rather than take it.

What stays on your Mac

• Your settings - default session length, whether the screen stays on, the thermal and battery guards, your language. Stored in WakeRanger's own sandbox container, like any Mac app's preferences
• Which apps are running, but only while a "keep awake while this app runs" session is active, and only to notice when that one app quits. The list is read, compared and discarded. It is never stored and never sent
• Your Mac's power state - battery level, whether it is on mains, its thermal state, how many displays are attached. Read to run the guards that stop a session before your Mac overheats or runs flat
• Whatever your rules ask about, and nothing else. A rule that mentions a network reads your Mac's own IP address; one that mentions a drive lists the volumes that are mounted; one that mentions a USB device reads the names the system already publishes. Each of these is read only while a rule that asks for it is switched on, compared, and discarded. None of it is stored and none of it is sent
• Your Downloads folder, if you start a "keep awake until my download finishes" session - and only to count the files a browser marks as still transferring. Nothing is opened, nothing is read, nothing is copied
• One file you choose, if you import rules from another keep-awake app. You pick it, it is read once, and the app keeps no access to it afterwards

None of this leaves the machine.

Purchases

If you buy WakeRanger Pro, the purchase is handled entirely by Apple. We never see your name, your email, your payment details or your Apple ID. WakeRanger asks the App Store on your Mac whether a valid purchase exists and gets back yes or no, which it remembers locally so the app keeps working offline.

Apple's own privacy policy covers that transaction: apple.com/legal/privacy.

Sync between your Macs

If you use more than one Mac, WakeRanger keeps your rules and session defaults the same on all of them. It does that through your own iCloud account, using Apple's key-value storage - the same mechanism many apps use for settings. Two things follow from that, and they are the reason it is built this way:

• the data goes to Apple, not to us. We have no server, no database and no way to read it
• what travels is only what you wrote - your rules and your session defaults. Not your session history, not what your Mac was doing, not anything the rules observed

Turn off iCloud Drive for WakeRanger in System Settings and it stops, with the app working exactly as before on each Mac separately.

Notifications

WakeRanger can warn you before a session ends, and before a free trial converts to a paid plan. Those notifications are scheduled and delivered by macOS on your own Mac. Nothing is sent through any server, ours or anyone else's.

Permissions

Fourteen of the sixteen things a rule can test need no permission at all. Two do, and WakeRanger asks for them only at the moment you add a rule that needs one - never at launch, and never to use the app without rules:

• Location, only if a rule asks which Wi-Fi network you are on. macOS treats a network name as a location, so there is no way around the prompt. A rule that asks which subnet you are on answers the same question and needs nothing, and it is offered first in the list
• Bluetooth, only if a rule asks whether a particular device is nearby. A rule about a USB device needs nothing and is offered first

Neither is used for anything else. WakeRanger never asks where you are, and never reads a location beyond the network name.

Permissions WakeRanger does not ask for

Worth listing, because most keep-awake apps ask for at least one of these:

• No Accessibility access. The global hot key uses an API that does not need it
• No Screen Recording. WakeRanger never captures your screen
• No Contacts, Calendars, Photos or Reminders
• No network of our own. WakeRanger talks to the App Store about your purchase and to your own iCloud about your rules. There is no other network traffic, and no server of ours anywhere

Children

WakeRanger is a utility with no accounts, no user content and no data collection, so there is nothing for it to collect from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the change ships in a release note rather than quietly.

Contact

Questions about any of this: innokenty.longway@gmail.com.