Relay Privacy Policy

Relay is a Mac notch app for timers, media controls, volume and brightness indicators, a camera mirror, clipboard history, an on-device AI assistant, and local AI usage and session tracking. This policy explains what Relay does and does not do with your data.

Relay collects no analytics, no telemetry, and no advertising data. There is no account, sign-up, or email required to use it. Relay’s developer never receives your audio, camera, clipboard, transcripts, or AI prompts.

What stays on your Mac

Everything Relay reads to do its job is processed locally, and never leaves your Mac:

• System audio — used only to animate the waveform. Audio is never recorded, stored, or transmitted.
• Microphone — used only while you dictate in AI mode. Speech is turned into text on your Mac by Apple’s on-device speech recognition. Nothing is recorded or saved.
• Camera — used only to show the Mirror in the notch, and only while it is open. Nothing is recorded or saved. The shutter copies a single frame to your clipboard; it is not stored anywhere else.
• Clipboard history — Relay keeps your last 50 copied items (text, links, images, and file references) so you can paste them again. This history is saved to disk on your Mac. Copied images may be scanned for text on your Mac so you can search them. Items that password managers mark as private or temporary are never recorded.
• AI mode — your questions are answered by Apple Intelligence’s on-device model. To answer, Relay hands it what the notch already shows: your timers, AI sessions, and usage. Prompts and answers are processed on your Mac and are not saved or sent anywhere by Relay. On Macs without Apple Intelligence, AI mode is unavailable.
• Claude Code and Codex transcripts — Relay reads the session files these tools already keep on your Mac (~/.claude, ~/.codex) to show which sessions are running, your last request, whether an agent is waiting on you, and a short summary of its reply (written by the on-device model). Relay only reads these files; it never changes or uploads them.
• Claude Code and Codex usage — read from files already on your Mac (~/.claude, ~/.codex, and Claude Desktop’s local cache). To show your Claude plan limits, Relay may also run Claude Code’s own claude /usage command in the background; Claude Code answers using its own login, and Relay never reads or handles your Claude credentials. If you have no Claude Code status line set up, Relay adds its own entry to ~/.claude/settings.json; it never overwrites one you already have.
• Bluetooth state — used only to show your AirPods’ connection status in the notch.
• Media playback info (track, artist, artwork) — read from macOS’s Now Playing system, shown in the notch.

What leaves your Mac

Relay itself makes network requests in these cases:

• Licensing — your license key and device name are sent to Lemon Squeezy’s license servers (api.lemonsqueezy.com) over HTTPS when you activate a license or move it to another Mac (Deactivate). If you have a Relay Pro license, Relay also re-checks that it is still valid in the background: at launch, every 6 hours while it runs, and when you open the Relay Pro settings tab. Lemon Squeezy is only contacted once a day at most; the other checks end without a network request. No API key travels with Relay itself — these are Lemon Squeezy’s public, unauthenticated license endpoints. If a check fails (offline, server down), Relay keeps your existing access rather than treating it as invalid.
• Update checks — Relay checks for a newer version automatically once a day, and whenever you click “Check for Updates…” in the General tab. This request carries no data about you beyond what any web request does (your IP address, logged by the server). If a newer version is found, it’s downloaded and verified with a cryptographic signature before installing.
• Installing Claude Code — only if you click to install it from Relay’s settings, Relay runs Anthropic’s official installer from claude.ai.

Tools Relay works alongside, such as Claude Code and Codex, make their own network requests under their own privacy policies.

Payments

Purchases are processed entirely by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record. Relay’s developer never sees or stores your payment details. See Lemon Squeezy’s privacy policy for how they handle checkout and billing data.

Children’s privacy

Relay is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from anyone.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the update will be reflected here with a new date below.

Contact

Questions go to Discord — Relay does not use a support email.

Last updated: 2026-10-23