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Last updated: July 2026

ProjectQuickBar is a macOS menu bar / Windows system tray utility for opening and controlling your own local dev projects. It containsno telemetry, no analytics, no accounts, and no tracking of any kind.

What the app sends over the network

  1. App configuration check. At launch and roughly every 6 hours the app performs a plain https GET for a small JSON file (app-config.json) from projectquickbar.com, falling back to a public GitHub URL. The request carries no identifiers, no cookies, and no query parameters — it is indistinguishable from opening the file in a browser. The file tells the app whether paid licensing is active and whether a newer version exists. The response is validated strictly and cached locally.
  2. License operations (only if you use a license key).When you activate, validate, or deactivate a license, the app calls the Lemon Squeezy license API (api.lemonsqueezy.com) with your license key and your computer's hostname (used as the activation's instance name so you can recognize it later). Activation state is rechecked at most once per day; network failures never deactivate anything.
  3. Everything else stays local. Project scanning, run commands, and preferences never leave your machine. The optional Mobile Connect server and per-project public sharing (Cloudflare tunnel) are off by default and only do what their controls say when you turn them on.

What is stored locally

~/Library/Application Support/ProjectQuickBar/ on macOS and%APPDATA%\ProjectQuickBar on Windows hold your preferences, trial/license state, and the cached app configuration. Deleting them resets the app.

This website

projectquickbar.com sets no cookies and runs no analytics or third-party scripts. Our hosting and CDN providers keep standard aggregate request logs (as virtually all websites' infrastructure does).

Honest-user model

The trial and licensing system is deliberately not DRM. Blocking the configuration URL, going offline, or deleting the local state files keeps or returns the app to free mode. We document this instead of fighting it; if the app is useful to you, buying a license is the supported way to keep it that way.

Contact

Questions about this policy:[email protected]