BackupWhat BackupTempo collects
Nothing. BackupTempo contains no analytics, no telemetry, no tracking, and no third-party services. It makes no network connections except:
- Update checks (Sparkle framework) against
backuptempo.app, which transmit only the app version being checked. You can disable automatic update checks in Settings.
Our web server counts downloads, update checks, and coffee-link clicks in aggregate — no identifiers, no cookies, no IP addresses stored.
This website uses Google Analytics
Added August 2026. It is a third-party script and it does set cookies. It is here so that "did anyone find this page?" has a number for an answer rather than a guess, and what Google collects through it is described in their privacy policy.
It is the only third-party script on the site: no ad pixels, no retargeting, no social widgets, nothing sold to anyone. Any content blocker stops it and every page works the same without it. Until August 2026 this page said the site used no third-party services and set no cookies — that was true then and it is not true now, so it no longer says it.
None of this touches the app. BackupTempo itself still contains no analytics, no telemetry and no third-party services, which is the claim that actually matters.
What stays on your Mac
Everything the app knows lives locally and never leaves your machine:
- Your backup schedule, blackout windows, and conditions (stored in macOS user defaults).
- The activity log (
~/Library/Logs/BackupTempo.log) — a plain-text record of scheduling decisions you can read, share, or delete at any time. - Backup health statistics, read from macOS's own Time Machine records.
BackupTempo never reads the contents of your files or backups — only Time Machine's scheduling and bookkeeping metadata.
Crash reports
If BackupTempo crashes, you may choose to email us the crash report. This is entirely opt-in and manual: the app shows you the report file, and nothing is sent unless you send it. Crash reports contain technical stack traces; we use them only to fix bugs and delete them afterwards.