SeatpocketPrivacy
Seatpocket keeps your reading to yourself.
Seatpocket is a Mac app with no accounts and no server of its own, so there’s nothing about you for anyone to collect. This page explains what the app keeps on your Mac and what it sends over the network.
What the app stores on your Mac
- Packed sites. The pages and files of sites you choose to pack, a SQLite index of them, and each site’s packing settings. They live in
~/Library/Application Support/Seatpocket/archives, one folder per packed site. - Sign-in sessions. If you use Sign In…, Chromium keeps that site’s cookies in the packed site’s own session, inside Seatpocket’s Application Support folder. Seatpocket never sees or stores your password. Cookies a site sets only for the browser session are kept for 30 days so you stay signed in after quitting. Sign Out, or deleting the packed site, clears them.
- Sign-in copied from your browser. Use Sign-In from … reads the cookies that Chrome, Brave, Edge, Arc, Chromium, or Firefox holds for the packed site and its subdomains, and copies them into that site’s session. Nothing is read until you choose the menu item. For Chromium-based browsers, macOS first asks whether Seatpocket may use the browser’s “Safe Storage” key from the Keychain, and you can refuse.
- Exports. An exported
.seatpocketfile is written only where you save it.
What the app sends
- Requests to the sites you pack, when you pack or refresh a site, or when a site you set to refresh daily does so. Each site sees these as ordinary browser visits from your Mac, including the cookies of your sign-in session for that site.
- Update checks. A few times a day the app downloads a small file that lists the newest version, and downloads that version when there is one. The request carries no account, identifier, or information about your packed sites, only what any download does: your IP address and the app’s version in the user agent. Turn it off with the checkbox in Check for Updates….
- Nothing else. The app contains no analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting. The reader is cut off from the network and serves every page from the packed site. Open in Browser hands the address to your default browser.
This website
These are static pages. They set no cookies, run no analytics, and load nothing from other sites. Like any website, the host that serves them may keep standard access logs, such as IP addresses and request times.