Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 16, 2026

righthook collects no data and has no network access. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. righthook keeps its preferences only inside its sandbox on your Mac; deleting the app and its container folder removes them.

At a glance

Data collected

None

Network access

None. righthook cannot connect to the internet.

Accounts, analytics, ads, trackers

None

Third-party code

None

Special permissions requested

None

Stored on your Mac

Your settings and a list of displays you have used (see below)

App Store privacy label

Data Not Collected

What righthook does on your Mac

righthook turns your built-in display off while an external display is connected, and back on when you unplug. To do that, it reads which displays are connected (their names, sizes and positions, and whether one is mirroring another), whether the built-in display is currently available (it isn’t while the lid is closed), and when your Mac sleeps, wakes or switches users. It uses this only while it is running, only on your Mac, and only to decide when to turn your built-in display off and on. None of it leaves your Mac.

What righthook stores on your Mac

righthook keeps a small amount of information so that it remembers your choices:

• Your settings: whether Automatic is on, whether righthook asks before using a new display and how long it waits, whether the status notes are shown, your Comeback shortcut, which displays you have chosen to ignore, which display takes over from the built-in display, and which Settings tab you looked at last.
• Known displays: for each external display you have connected, its name as macOS reports it, a unique identifier that macOS assigns to that display, whether you confirmed it in Sight Check, and the date you last connected it. This is so that Sight Check doesn’t ask about the same display twice and your choices for each display stick.
• A small internal note recording whether righthook, and not you, set up display mirroring, so that it can undo exactly what it did and never undo what you did.
• Whether you have finished the welcome screens.

This information is stored inside righthook’s sandbox on your Mac. It never leaves your Mac, and we cannot see it. You can remove saved displays in Settings → Displays (Forget, or Forget All Displays). To remove everything, quit righthook and delete the app and its container folder, which is the folder named com.unnecessaryapp.righthook inside ~/Library/Containers.

What righthook never does

• It never connects to the internet. righthook runs in the macOS App Sandbox without any network permission, and we run no servers for it.
• It contains no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting code, and no third-party code of any kind.
• It asks for no special permissions. It doesn’t need Accessibility, Screen Recording, Input Monitoring, your camera, microphone, location, contacts, photos or files. Its keyboard shortcut works without any permission prompt.
• It doesn’t open at login unless you ask. If you turn on Open at login, macOS manages that in Login Items and may ask you to allow it in System Settings.

Links inside the app

Settings → About links to this page and to the support page. They open in your web browser. righthook itself does not load them.

Apple and the Mac App Store

You get righthook from the Mac App Store, and Apple handles your download, and any purchase, under Apple’s privacy policy. Apple may give us aggregated, anonymous statistics about the app, such as download counts. If you have turned on sharing with app developers in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, Apple may also pass us anonymous crash reports. We cannot identify you from either.

This website

This website uses no cookies, no analytics, no scripts and no third-party fonts, images or other resources. Like any website, the service that hosts it may keep standard server logs, such as your IP address, the date and time, the page requested and your browser’s user-agent, to run and secure the site. We add nothing to that, and we don’t use it to identify you.

If you email us

If you write to contact@unnecessaryapp.com, we receive your email address and whatever you choose to include. We use it only to reply, to fix problems and to improve righthook. We don’t sell it, share it for marketing or add you to any list. We delete the conversation when you ask, and otherwise when we no longer need it.

Your choices and rights

Because righthook collects no data about you, there is nothing in the app for us to export, correct or delete. What righthook stores on your Mac is yours to remove, as described above. Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights over personal data that we hold, such as access, correction and deletion. The only personal data we might hold is an email that you sent us. Write to us and we’ll help.

Children

righthook is not directed at children, and it collects nothing from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. righthook has no network access, so it can’t tell you itself: check back here. If we ever change righthook to collect data, we’ll update this policy and the App Privacy details on the App Store before releasing that change.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email contact@unnecessaryapp.com

righthook is published by Unnecessaryapp.com.