Privacy

Wavebug measures your Wi-Fi on your Mac, and keeps what it measures there. There's no account and no tracking, and the app has no analytics.

On your Mac

• Signal, speed, delay and speed test history are stored on your Mac only, in Wavebug's own folder. They're never sent anywhere.
• macOS only tells apps the name of your Wi-Fi network if they have Location access, so Wavebug asks for it. Wavebug never reads or stores your location.
• If you show a Wi-Fi QR code, the network's password is kept in your Mac's keychain, and is never included in snapshots.
• Share cards leave out your IP address, router, and the hardware addresses of your Mac and router, and they leave out your network's name unless you choose to show it.

What leaves your Mac

• Unlocking. When you enter your key, Wavebug sends the key and an anonymous ID for your Mac to wavebug.app. That ID is a one-way scramble of the Mac's hardware ID: it can't be turned back into it, or matched with it anywhere else. For the first 14 days after buying, while a refund is still possible, Wavebug repeats that check about once a day. After that, the licence is never checked again.
• Updates. Wavebug asks wavebug.app whether there's a new version shortly after it starts and every 6 hours, and downloads it if there is. The request says which version of Wavebug is asking and nothing else: no ID, and nothing about your Mac or your network.
• Delay. Wavebug times pings to your router and to 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare's public DNS server), only while the panel is open, or an alert or menu bar setting needs them.
• Speed tests. These use the test built into macOS, which connects to Apple's servers. They only run when you start one, or on a schedule you choose.

Buying

Payments are handled by Stripe, who also take care of VAT and sales tax. We receive your email address and a reference to the payment, to send you your key and to handle refunds. Keys are emailed through Resend. Your key itself is never stored, only a one-way scramble of it, along with the anonymous IDs of the Macs it's activated on.

This site

We count visits to wavebug.app with Umami, which runs on our own server rather than anyone else's. It doesn't use cookies and can't follow you to other sites: it records the page you looked at, where you came from, and rough details like country, browser and whether you're on a phone. On the page you see after buying, it leaves out the rest of the address, which identifies your purchase. There are no advertising trackers, and the site's fonts are hosted here.

Questions

Email hello@afterimage-dev.com, including to ask what we hold about you or to have it deleted.