Last updated 29 September 2026

Privacy

What Headroom reads, what it keeps, and what leaves your Mac: nothing, unless you ask.

What Headroom reads

The readings macOS gives any app: processor, memory, disk and network counters, the battery, the temperature sensors, and the list of running processes. With Full Disk Access, which you grant in System Settings, it also reads folder sizes for the Storage map.

What it keeps

Its settings and the last Storage scan, in a Headroom folder in Application Support, in your Library on this Mac. Delete the app and that folder, and it’s gone.

What leaves your Mac

Nothing. Headroom makes no network requests: there’s no account, no analytics, no crash reporting and no update check. The one exception is yours to trigger: What’s This? opens a Google search for a process’s name in your browser. Headroom sends nothing itself; your browser does, when you choose it.

This website

Plain pages on Cloudflare, with no cookies and no analytics. Cloudflare keeps its own request logs, as any host does.

Changes, and getting in touch

If this changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it. Questions go to headroom@charithp.com.