Last updated 18 September 2026
ColorPop is made by Ben Dansby. This policy covers the Mac app and the iPhone and iPad app.
ColorPop collects nothing about you. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no account, and no identifier. Nothing you pick is ever sent to me or to anyone else. If you turn on syncing, your palettes travel between your own devices through your own iCloud account — I have no access to that, and no server of mine is involved.
The eyedropper is macOS’s own color sampler. The system reads the pixel and hands ColorPop a single color — ColorPop never sees, captures or records your screen, which is why it doesn’t ask for screen-recording permission. If you’re ever asked to grant it, something other than ColorPop is asking.
Your palettes, the names you give colors, your recent picks and your settings. On the Mac they are plain files under ~/Library/Application Support/ColorPop/ — one file per palette — that you can read, back up or delete.
If you are signed in to iCloud with iCloud Drive turned on, ColorPop keeps your palettes in a private iCloud container that belongs to your Apple Account, so the same palettes appear on your Mac, iPhone and iPad. The Mac also publishes the color lists installed on it, since iOS has no way to read those on its own.
That container is Apple’s, not mine. The data goes between your devices and your own iCloud storage; it never reaches a server I run, and I cannot see it. Apple’s handling is covered by the Apple Privacy Policy.
Recent colors never sync. They stay on the device that picked them, by design.
If you are not signed in to iCloud, or iCloud Drive is off, ColorPop simply keeps everything on that device and nothing is transmitted at all. Settings ▸ General on the Mac tells you which of the two is happening.
bendansby.com for its update feed, and the request carries your app version and macOS version, which is what any updater needs. The App Store versions have no updater of their own.That is the entire list, and none of it reaches a server of mine beyond the update feed. Picking colors, naming them, building palettes, checking contrast and copying formats all happen with no network at all.
If you buy a license, activating it sends your license key to Lemon Squeezy, who handle the purchase and validation. Their handling is covered by the Lemon Squeezy privacy policy. ColorPop stores the resulting receipt locally. If you never buy a license, this never happens.
On the Mac, ColorPop requests no system permissions at all — no screen recording, no accessibility, no files, no camera or microphone.
On iPhone and iPad it asks for two, and only when you use the feature that needs them:
Decline either and the rest of the app works exactly as before.
ColorPop is a utility for people who work with color. It is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone.
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new date. Since ColorPop collects nothing, any change is likely to be a clarification.
Questions about privacy, or anything else: ben.dansby@gmail.com.