Privacy
Understand quota metadata access, local settings and notification state, diagnostics, and QuotaMew's no-telemetry boundary.
QuotaMew's Stable quota monitoring focuses on provider quota metadata and local application state.
It does not require a QuotaMew account, backend service, analytics service, or cloud sync.
QuotaMew has no telemetry or advertising analytics and does not sell user data. This describes the app; it does not describe the provider runtime or every website you visit.
Local by default
QuotaMew processes the usage information it needs locally on your Mac.
QuotaMew does not intentionally upload your prompts, conversations, source code, coding history, authentication credentials, or provider session contents.
What QuotaMew accesses
QuotaMew requests provider quota information to display supported windows and reset times, rather than analyzing prompts or coding content.
Codex
For Codex, QuotaMew locates a compatible Codex runtime installed on your Mac and communicates with its local app-server through standard input and output.
QuotaMew requests the rate-limit information needed to display your usage.
Codex remains responsible for its own authentication and provider communication.
QuotaMew does not read or copy your Codex authentication file, scrape the interactive /status screen, or scan your Codex session history.
Claude Code
Claude Code support is currently Experimental / Unverified.
The implemented integration reads only a small, versioned snapshot designed for QuotaMew.
It does not scan Claude transcripts, conversation history, authentication credentials, or internal usage caches.
Stable does not install or configure the snapshot bridge. See Providers for its limitations.
What QuotaMew does not intentionally collect
QuotaMew is designed not to collect or upload:
- Prompts or conversation contents
- Source code
- Coding history
- Authentication credentials or tokens
- Provider transcripts or session contents
- Repository identities
- Private filesystem paths
Local settings
QuotaMew stores application preferences locally using macOS UserDefaults.
These preferences can include:
- Enabled providers
- Notification settings
- Reminder thresholds
- Usage presentation mode
- Pinned menu bar provider
- Menu bar preferences
- Onboarding state
These settings are associated with the local QuotaMew installation and are not synchronized through a QuotaMew cloud service.
Local notification and reset state
Settings are not the only local state. QuotaMew keeps a bounded amount of application-managed state to avoid duplicate notifications and compare recent quota cycles when detecting resets. This can include provider/window identifiers, reset and capture times, reminder markers, and recent quota values. It is local product state, not a full historical analytics record or cloud upload.
See Notifications and reset reminders for behavior and delivery limits.
Diagnostics
QuotaMew includes a privacy-safe diagnostics report to help troubleshoot provider compatibility issues.
The built-in diagnostics report contains an allowlisted set of information such as:
- QuotaMew version
- macOS and system information
- Provider state
- Runtime availability
- Connection state
- Refresh state
- Metadata availability
The report is designed to exclude:
- Authentication credentials
- Prompts and conversations
- Provider sessions
- Source code and project data
- Private filesystem paths
- Raw provider responses
- Exact quota percentages
Review information before sharing
Even when using the built-in diagnostics report, review the contents before posting them publicly.
Do not attach raw provider logs, authentication files, session files, or broad system logs to public GitHub issues.
Network access
QuotaMew itself currently does not require a QuotaMew backend, account service, analytics service, or cloud sync.
When using Codex, QuotaMew communicates with the locally installed Codex runtime. The runtime is responsible for its normal communication with the provider and for authentication.
The privacy and network behavior of ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, macOS, and other software running on your Mac are governed by those products and are outside QuotaMew's implementation boundary.