Privacy

BipBot is a pet that is fed by how you use your Mac, so it has to count some things. It counts as little as it can, never reads what you type, and keeps it all on your Mac.

Last updated October 20, 2026. This covers the BipBot app and this website.

The app

What it counts

To feed your pet and keep track of its needs, BipBot counts:

• how many keys you press,
• how many times you click and scroll,
• how far the mouse moves,
• how often you switch apps (a number, not which apps),
• when you step away from your Mac, and for how long.

Counting keys and clicks needs the Input Monitoring permission, which macOS asks you for. BipBot only listens: it can't type, click or change anything.

What it never reads

BipBot never records what you type or what you click on. To tell a person from a held key or a machine, it looks at which key was pressed for a moment, in memory, and then forgets it. It never reads window titles, web addresses or anything on your screen, and it takes no screenshots. To walk along your windows it knows where they are and which app they belong to, never what is in them.

Where it's kept

The counts, your pet and everything it owns are saved in a file on your Mac. They are not sent anywhere. Unless you turn on Pals or buy bips, the app makes no network requests at all.

Pals, if you turn it on

Pals shows your friends' BipBots. You add a pal with a share code. Live sharing is off until you turn it on in Settings, Privacy. While it is on, the app keeps one connection to BipBot's Pals server and shares only your pet's name and look (its color, size and what it wears). To show your pals, it asks for their looks too, so while you are connected the server knows which pals you follow. It never sends your bips, your activity or anything about what you do.

Turning it off tells the server to forget your pet's look at once. If the server can't be reached then, it forgets it after a month without hearing from you.

The leaderboard, if you join it

The leaderboard is off until you choose to show up on it (only your pals, or everyone). Then the app also sends a username you pick and the bips your pet earned each day, never bought ones, so others can see who earned the most. Turning it off hides you and keeps your entry for 30 days in case you come back; after that it is forgotten.

Buying bips

Bips are free to earn. If you choose to buy a pack, BipBot opens a checkout in your browser, and the payment is made with Stripe. BipBot never sees your card, your name or your email. While a purchase is waiting, the app asks BipBot's server whether it went through, sending only a random code made for that purchase. Stripe's own privacy policy covers the payment.

Erasing everything

Settings has Erase all BipBot data. It deletes your pet, its counts and everything it owns from your Mac, and tells BipBot's server to forget whatever it had shared.

This website

Visits

bipbot.io counts visits with Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies and doesn't follow you to other sites. It tells visitors apart only by a code that changes every day. Besides pages viewed, it counts three things: a click on Download, an Email me sent, and which color was picked.

Email me

If you leave your email to hear when BipBot is out, it is kept in a private Google Sheet and used only to send you that one email. You can ask for your address to be deleted at any time.

Hosting

This site is hosted by Vercel, and downloads come from dl.bipbot.io on Cloudflare. Like any web host, they keep short-lived logs (such as IP addresses) to run and protect their service.

Questions

Write to privacy@bipbot.io, including to have anything deleted.