Privacy, by design.

Effective 14 November 2026 · Native macOS edition

AURA is developed by Giorgi Katsarava. It helps you understand your Mac’s activity, while keeping monitoring data on your device.

Monitoring happens locally

AURA reads overall CPU, physical memory, swap and disk-capacity information, along with running-application metadata supplied by macOS. This information is processed on your Mac to draw the panel and menu bar readings. It is not transmitted to the developer, an analytics provider or an advertising service.

The App Store edition does not inspect other processes’ CPU, memory or I/O counters, control other applications, or perform a global RAM purge. Measurements unavailable from macOS are shown as unavailable.

What is stored on your Mac

Recent activity samples are held in memory for the on-screen history chart. Preferences such as appearance, refresh interval and menu bar display are stored locally through macOS settings storage in the app’s container. AURA does not maintain a server-side account, profile or monitoring history.

Process or application names and resource readings can be visible to anyone who can see your screen or a screenshot you choose to share.

No accounts, advertising or analytics

The native app does not require an AURA account, and does not contain advertising, third-party analytics, cross-app tracking or remote telemetry. Fonts are included with the app. The Store edition receives app updates through Apple’s App Store, rather than a separate executable update service.

Your choices

Launch at login is optional and uses macOS registration only when you enable it. Closing the panel leaves monitoring active in the menu bar; choosing Quit AURA stops monitoring. Disable its login item in macOS if you no longer want it registered.

You can remove the app and its local app container to remove its saved preferences. There is no developer-held monitoring account or history to delete.

Apple services

Apple may process App Store downloads, purchases, updates and diagnostics under Apple’s own policies and the choices you make in macOS. This platform processing is separate from AURA’s local monitoring. For details, see Apple’s privacy policy.

This website

This website uses no analytics scripts, advertising or cookies. Its fonts and page assets are served from this website. The hosting infrastructure processes connection information, such as your IP address, to deliver pages and protect the service; technical security or error logs may be retained for that purpose. The website does not receive data from AURA’s monitoring features.

If you contact us

If you email support, we receive your email address and any information you choose to include. We use that correspondence to respond and troubleshoot. Please avoid sending passwords, private files or unrelated personal information. We do not sell your correspondence or use it for advertising.

Changes to this policy

If the app’s data practices change, this policy and the relevant App Store privacy disclosures will be updated. The effective date at the top identifies the current policy.