What stays on your Mac, what doesn't.

The short version

Perch reads your App Store Connect data and shows it to you. Your credentials live in your Mac's Keychain. Sales, reviews and app status are cached locally on your Mac. Perch has no server. We never see your data.

What Perch sees

When you set up Perch, you paste an App Store Connect API key (Key ID, Issuer ID, Vendor Number and the .p8 private key file). Perch uses these credentials to make signed requests directly to Apple's App Store Connect API.

Perch fetches sales reports, app metadata, app store states and reviews. That data is stored locally in a SwiftData database on your Mac. Nothing about it is ever sent to PaperCloud Studios, the developer or any third party.

Where your credentials live

Your API credentials are stored in macOS Keychain, encrypted at rest by the system. Perch reads them only when it needs to make an API call. They never appear in logs, in app preferences, or in any sync.

Third parties Perch talks to

• Apple's App Store Connect API. This is the source of your sales, reviews and status data. Connection happens directly from your Mac to Apple.
• frankfurter.app. Used once a day to fetch exchange rates so revenue can be displayed in your home currency. The request contains no identifying information.

That's the entire list. Perch does not call any analytics service, ad network, crash reporter, or A/B testing platform.

What we don't collect

• No usage analytics. We don't track which buttons you tap or how long you spend in the app.
• No telemetry. We don't ping a server when you open or close Perch.
• No diagnostic logs sent anywhere. Crash logs stay in your local macOS log store unless you choose to share them with us.
• No account. There's no Perch login because there's no Perch server to log into.

Your control

From Settings, you can clear your credentials and cached reports at any time. The Reset button in the Data section deletes everything Perch has stored on your Mac.

Children

Perch is built for App Store developers. It is not directed at anyone under 13 and we do not knowingly collect any data from children.

Contact

Questions, concerns or curiosities about privacy? Send us a note. We read every message.

Changes

If we update how Perch handles data, we'll update this page and date the change at the top. Material changes will be flagged inside the app on next launch.