KeycapPrivacy Policy
Effective August 29, 2026 · Last updated September 2, 2026
Keycap is a typing trainer for the Mac, made by Papyrus Digital (“we”, “us”). This policy says what Keycap does with your information.
The short version: Keycap collects nothing and sends nothing. There is no account, no server, no analytics and no third-party code. Everything it records stays on your Mac.
1. What we collect
Nothing. We run no servers and receive no data from your use of Keycap.
Keycap runs inside Apple’s App Sandbox. Its only network permission exists so that StoreKit can reach the App Store when you buy or restore the app. The app makes no network requests of its own: no analytics, no crash reporter, no third-party SDK.
We do not collect personal information, require an account, use cookies or identifiers, or track you across apps or websites.
2. What Keycap keeps on your Mac
To teach you, Keycap keeps a record of your typing in its sandbox container. None of it leaves your Mac.
Kept
- Run results — date, Track and Level, kind of material, and the resulting speed, accuracy, consistency, duration and character count.
- Per-key and per-pair counts — how often each key and each two-key pair was typed correctly or not. This is what aims later drills at the keys you miss.
- Practice passages written on your Mac by Apple Intelligence, kept so a later Run does not have to wait for one.
- Your settings — sound, Sound Pack, volume, on-screen keyboard, current Level, the last subject you named, and which Introductions you have read.
Not kept
- What you typed. Keystrokes exist only in memory during a Run and are discarded when it ends. Nothing on disk can reconstruct your typing.
- Which subject a past Run was about. A Run’s history records only that it used a Topic.
Deleting it. Everything lives in the app’s container. Deleting the app removes it, or delete ~/Library/Containers/com.papyrus.keycap/ yourself. There is no account to close.
3. Apple Intelligence
When you name a subject, Keycap passes it to the on-device model built into macOS, and the passage comes back from the same place. Neither the subject nor the passage is sent to us or to anyone else. If Apple Intelligence is unavailable, Keycap says so and uses its own word list; it never falls back to a cloud service.
Apple’s handling of on-device model features is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.
4. Sharing a result
Keycap can make an image of a Run — speed, accuracy, consistency and a coloured keyboard — when you press Share. It is generated in memory and handed to the macOS share sheet. Where it goes is your choice, and that destination’s own policy then applies. Keycap keeps no copy.
5. Diagnostics
Keycap has no crash reporting of its own. macOS may send crash reports to Apple, and Apple may share them with us, only if you have allowed it in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements. Those reports never contain what you typed.
6. Your rights
Privacy laws such as the GDPR, the CCPA and India’s DPDP Act give you rights over personal data a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, export or erase. The data in Section 2 is on your own Mac, under your control.
Where those laws require a named party, it is Papyrus Digital, support@papyrusdigital.studio. You retain the right to complain to your local supervisory authority.
7. Children
Keycap is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. It collects no information from anyone of any age.
8. Changes
If Keycap ever gains a capability it does not have today — cloud sync, say — we will update this policy, change the date above, publish it here and note it in the release notes.
Contact
Papyrus Digital · support@papyrusdigital.studio · getkeycap.app