Privacy

The Onyx app has no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no account. It makes no network connections of its own except the ones you configure: SSH to your hosts, and the APIs you explicitly enable. (This website is a separate thing, and does use analytics — see below.)

Everything it stores — hosts, favorites, notes, session notes — is a file in ~/Library/Application Support/Onyx on your Mac. Nothing is synced anywhere.

Optional integrations talk only to the services you point them at, with credentials you supply: GitHub and GitLab for pipelines and pull requests, Timing.app for hours, and Apple Reminders through the system framework — which macOS gates behind its own permission prompt, and which is read-only.

One exception worth stating plainly, because it's the only case where content leaves your machine without you pointing it somewhere: the artifact panel renders in a web view. Diagrams, models and formatted text load their rendering libraries (mermaid, highlight.js, marked) from cdn.jsdelivr.net, so displaying one makes a request to that CDN. And a PlantUML artifact specifically is rendered by plantuml.com — the diagram's source is encoded into the image URL and sent there. Mermaid diagrams render locally in the web view; only the library is fetched. If a diagram's contents are sensitive, use mermaid rather than PlantUML.

This site — as distinct from the app — is static, served by Cloudflare Pages, and can use Google Analytics (through Google Tag Manager) to see which pages people read. It is off until you accept: the container loads with every storage category denied, which means no cookies and no identifiers, and it only starts measuring properly if you say yes. Decline and it stays denied; if you had accepted earlier, declining also expires the analytics cookies already set. Any of this runs on the website only — it is not in the app, ships in none of the downloads, and can see nothing about your machines, sessions or files. Fonts are the only other external request.

Questions: open an issue.