Everything stays on your Mac
There are no analytics, no network calls, no account, and no servers. Touch Grass doesn’t phone home, doesn’t have a backend, and has nothing to upload. Your usage never leaves your machine.
The one thing it reads
To recognize AI websites, Touch Grass reads your browser’s active-tab URL — and only that — via macOS Automation. macOS asks for your permission once per browser. The URL is matched against AI domains on-device and is never stored or sent anywhere. If you deny permission, it simply won’t detect AI sites in that browser; denials are shown in Settings → Permissions.
What it never does
- No telemetry or usage analytics.
- No crash reporting to a remote service.
- No ads, no trackers, no third-party SDKs.
- No selling or sharing of data — there isn’t any to sell.
Your progress, stored locally
Your accumulated AI time is saved on disk so quitting and relaunching doesn’t wipe your progress, and so a break can resume if interrupted. It’s ordinary local app data — delete the app and it’s gone.
Open source, so you can check
The full source is on GitHub under the MIT license. You can read exactly what it does, build it yourself, and verify every claim on this page. See also how it works.