The plug-ins and the app collect nothing.
No accounts, no analytics, no licence server, no update check. Nothing you play, load or save leaves your computer through a DeAnalog plug-in, because there is no code in them that talks to a network.
Last updated 14 October 2026
What the plug-ins keep on your computer
Preferences. The faceplate you picked, the window size, your starred presets and a
MIDI mapping if you saved one as your default. On macOS they sit in
~/Library/Analog Productions/DeAnalog, on your own disk.
Patches you save. A patch is a file, by default in
~/Documents/DeAnalog/Patches. If a patch used a waveform you dropped in, that
waveform is stored inside the file, so sharing the patch shares the waveform with it. That is the one
way something you made leaves your computer, and only when you send it yourself.
Your project. Whatever your host saves in its own session file. That is the host's to describe, not mine.
Files
A plug-in opens a file only when you choose it, through the system file picker or by dropping it on the panel. It does not look through anything else on the disk.
Network
The builds are compiled with networking switched off, and there are no sockets in the source. There is no telemetry, no crash reporting and no activation. The build also declares, in the form Apple reads, that it performs no tracking and collects no data.
The iPad app
DeAnalog Synth on iPad is the same instrument as the plug-in and behaves the same way: no account, no analytics, no licence check, no network. It is a standalone app and an Audio Unit v3 extension that other music apps can load, and neither one makes a network request.
What it keeps on the iPad. Your faceplate, your starred presets and any MIDI mapping you saved, inside the app's own container, which iOS keeps private to the app and deletes with it. Patches you save are files, written wherever you choose through the Files app. The iPad version cannot load dropped waveforms at all, so a patch from it never carries one.
What Apple sees. Buying and downloading from the App Store is between you and Apple, under Apple's privacy policy. If the app ever crashes and you have turned on sharing with developers in iOS, Apple sends me a crash report, which says which line of code failed and nothing about you or what you were playing. That setting is yours and is off unless you chose otherwise.
The app ships with a privacy manifest declaring no tracking, no data collection and no third-party SDKs, because there are none in it.
This site
deanalog.io sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads no third-party scripts. The two typefaces are served from this domain, not from a font network. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, so Cloudflare handles the requests that serve these pages, as any web host does.
The video. The home page shows a still image, served from this domain, with a play
button. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you press it. If you do, the player loads from
youtube-nocookie.com and from that moment YouTube can set its own storage and see that
you watched, under Google's privacy policy, not mine. If you never press play, no request
leaves for YouTube at all.
There is no sign-up form here. Where the site invites you to get in touch, the link opens your own mail app addressed to me. Nothing is submitted to this site, and no list exists to be added to.
If you email me, I have your address and whatever you wrote, in my mail account, and I use it to answer you. I do not use it for anything else and I do not pass it to anyone. Ask me to delete the thread and I will.
Purchases
Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy, which is the seller of record. It takes your payment details and sends your receipt; I never see card numbers. What Lemon Squeezy keeps is covered by its own privacy policy. I can see an order's number, name and email in its dashboard, which is how refunds and support requests get matched to a purchase.
Deleting your data
Everything the plug-ins store is on your own computer, so uninstalling removes it. The support page lists the folders. For anything you sent me by email, ask and I will delete it.
If this changes
If a future version collects anything, this page changes before that version ships, and it will say what and why.