Privacy

Last updated 13 November 2026

What Panewise sees on your Mac

To do its job, Panewise reads the position, size and title of open windows and the names of running apps. With Screen Recording allowed, it also captures small previews of your windows to show in the picker and to animate moves.

All of this stays on your Mac. Previews are drawn in memory and discarded right away — they are never written to disk or sent anywhere.

What Panewise remembers

To get better at suggesting windows, Panewise keeps a few preferences in its settings file on your Mac: which apps you tend to pair, your preferred split for a pair, saved layouts, app rules and your settings. You can clear these by deleting Panewise's preferences, and none of it ever leaves your Mac.

What goes over the network

• Update checks. Panewise periodically downloads a small file from panewise.app listing the latest version. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address and Panewise's version to our host. No other information is sent, and we don't use it to identify you.
• Crash reports — only if you choose. If Panewise crashed, it offers to email the crash report to us. Nothing is sent unless you send that email yourself. Crash reports contain technical details about Panewise (versions, call stacks) — not window contents, titles or your usage.

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Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@panewise.app.

Panewise is made by EpsilonX, LLC.