FileCura is local-first.
Your categories, your files, and your license stay on your Mac. The app itself collects no telemetry and uploads nothing. This page documents what FileCura does — and what third parties we use for purchase and license delivery.
Local-first design
FileCura is a macOS app that runs entirely on your Mac. The bundled Finder Quick Actions perform their work locally on the files you select. No network connection is required to use the app or any of its workflows.
No telemetry in the app
FileCura does not include analytics tracking, crash reporting that phones home, or background telemetry. The app does not contact a FileCura server during normal use.
No file uploads
FileCura's Quick Actions read and modify files on your Mac using standard macOS APIs (Finder Comments, Spotlight metadata, file system operations). At no point are your files sent to a FileCura server or any third party.
No cloud account
FileCura does not require an account or sign-in to a cloud service. The free app and the paid packs all work entirely offline.
Where your categories are stored
The tag categories you create are stored locally on your Mac inside FileCura's Application Support folder. They are a plain JSON file you can back up, copy between Macs, or delete. Removing FileCura's Quick Actions does not remove this file.
What FileCura touches on your Mac
The free Quick Actions interact with macOS in the following ways:
- Category Tagging / Single Tag Selector — writes selected tags into the Finder Comments / Spotlight metadata of the files you chose.
- Text & Comment Tools — modifies filenames and Finder Comments for the files you chose.
- Smart Duplicate Scanner — reads file metadata (name, size, extension) of the items you scanned to report likely duplicates.
- Spotlight Path Refresher — asks macOS to refresh Spotlight metadata for the items you chose.
- Clean Duplicate Comments — modifies Finder Comments for the items you chose.
The paid pack workflows behave the same way: they only act on files you explicitly selected in Finder and ran a Quick Action against. Nothing runs in the background and nothing is uploaded.
Permissions macOS may request
You may see macOS prompts asking FileCura for:
- Automation permission to control Finder (used to read and update Finder Comments).
- Permission to access folders you select (standard macOS behaviour).
These prompts are issued by macOS, not by FileCura, and you can review or revoke them at any time in System Settings → Privacy & Security.
Third parties involved in purchases
If you buy a paid pack, the following third parties are involved:
- Lemon Squeezy (lemonsqueezy.com) processes payment, holds your billing details, and issues your tax invoice. We never see your card details. Their privacy policy applies to the checkout itself.
- Resend (resend.com) is the email service we use to deliver your
.filecuralicensefile. Your name and email are passed to Resend for that one send. - Cloudflare Workers hosts the small webhook that receives the Lemon Squeezy order, generates the signed license, and asks Resend to send it. The Worker logs the order ID for deduplication; it does not store your email or payment details.
None of these third parties are used by the FileCura app itself or by the workflows you run on your files. They are only involved in the purchase and license-delivery flow.
What we store about buyers
For each paid order, we keep a record of the buyer email, buyer name (if provided at checkout), Lemon Squeezy order ID, entitled packs, and the date the license was issued. We use this record to re-send your license file if you lose it, and to comply with UK tax record-keeping rules. We do not share this information with third parties beyond the processors listed above.
Your rights under UK GDPR
If you are a buyer, you can request a copy of the data we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask us to delete it (subject to our legal obligation to retain order records for tax purposes). Email hello@filecura.com and we will respond within 30 days.
Changes to this notice
If FileCura ever introduces optional features that require network use (for example, an opt-in sync feature in a future release), this page will be updated to clearly describe what data is involved and how to opt out.
Contact
Privacy questions can be sent to hello@filecura.com.