Privacy.

Outbound has no servers and no account. Your prompts stay on your Mac.

In short

• Outbound collects nothing about you.
• It makes no network requests. It works offline.
• No analytics, no ads, no crash reports, no built-in updater.

What Outbound stores

• Your prompts and categories, in one file: ~/Library/Application Support/Outbound/Library.json.
• Each prompt keeps its title, text, category, and the dates it was made and last changed.
• Your shortcut, in the app preferences.
• Open at login is kept by macOS, and is off until you turn it on.
• If the file cannot be read, it is moved aside and kept. It is never deleted.

Permissions

• Accessibility lets Outbound paste for you. It sends one ⌘V to the app in front, only after you pick a prompt.
• It does not watch your typing, read other apps, or see your screen.
• Without Accessibility, Outbound copies the prompt and you paste it yourself.
• Files are read only when you choose them to import.

The clipboard

• Using a prompt puts its text on the clipboard, so you can paste it again.
• Outbound reads the clipboard only when you paste into it.
• Clipboard managers you run may save what Outbound copies.

Your control

• Back up or move your prompts by copying the file.
• A deleted prompt leaves the file on the next save. ⌘Z brings it back while Outbound is open.
• To remove everything, quit Outbound, delete the app, and delete the Outbound folder in Application Support.

Changes

• If this ever changes, this page will say so first.
• Questions go to GitHub issues.
• Last updated October 12, 2026.