Privacy Policy

No Account, No Tracking

Arci has no account and no sign-in. It contains no analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, advertising or tracking code — no third-party code of any kind — so neither Prayukta nor anyone else learns how you use it. Arci sends something to Prayukta only when you use one of Prayukta's services on purpose — building an action from words, an Arci Pro license, or Pro's AI Search — as described below.

What Stays on Your Mac

What you type, run, copy and save stays on your Mac, in files described below. Several features do their work on the Mac itself, using Apple's frameworks:

• On-device AI — AI actions when Settings → AI is set to On-device, and emoji suggestions, use Apple Intelligence on your Mac.
• On-device translation — Translate actions set to This Mac, and translation when Google can't be reached, use Apple's Translation framework.
• Reading text in images — text from a screen area you drag, and from images you copy (so clipboard history can search them), is read by Apple's Vision framework. The screen picture is deleted as soon as it's read.
• Finding files — Search Files reads Spotlight's index on your Mac. Arci keeps no list of your files, and macOS shows it only the folders you let it into. A file you open from it is recorded in History by name and folder, as any action you run is.
• Understanding pasted text — its language, and the links, phone numbers, addresses and times in it, are recognised by Apple's Natural Language framework and data detectors.
• Text you select — when you select text with the mouse, Arci reads it through Accessibility to choose the chips it shows over it, on your Mac. In browsers and Electron apps, which don't share a selection that way, it copies the selection for a moment and puts your clipboard back. Nothing is kept, and nothing leaves your Mac unless you pick a chip that sends it somewhere. Settings → General → When you select text turns this off, or keeps it out of the apps you list; password managers are always left out.
• Definitions — Define looks the word up in the Mac's own Dictionary, on your Mac.

What Arci Sends, and When

These are the only places Arci itself connects to:

• Updates — github.com (and GitHub's download servers), where Arci's releases are published. About 20 seconds after Arci starts, then once a day while it runs, and when you choose Check Now in Settings → General → Updates, it asks for a small file describing the newest release — no cookies, no identifiers, no account. If there's a newer version, Arci downloads it from GitHub only when you choose Install and Relaunch, checks it on your Mac (that it's signed with Arci's Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple) and sends nothing back.
• Currency rates — api.frankfurter.dev, which publishes the European Central Bank's rates. Arci asks for the day's rates automatically, at most once a day, the first time you type something after its saved rates are a day old. The request carries nothing about you or what you typed.
• Translation — translate.googleapis.com (Google Translate), when you run a Translate action that isn't set to This Mac. It receives the text to translate. Before sending a long paste, Arci asks you to press ↩ again.
• AI with your own key — api.anthropic.com, api.openai.com, generativelanguage.googleapis.com (Gemini) or openrouter.ai, when you run an AI action with Settings → AI set to Your API key, or an action you've set to a specific provider. The provider receives the prompt with whatever the action filled in — what you typed or pasted, and the selected text, clipboard text or screen text if the action uses them — and each follow-up resends the conversation so far. Your key goes with it. The provider's own privacy policy applies, and it bills you directly. With On-device AI, nothing is sent.
• YouTube videos — Gemini (generativelanguage.googleapis.com), when you summarize or transcribe a YouTube link with your Gemini key. Only the link is sent; Gemini watches the public video. Making an infographic of the result also sends the summary or transcript.
• Pages you summarize — the link's own site, when you choose Summarize the page. Arci asks it for the page the way Safari would (with Safari's user agent), keeps its text only for the summary, and sends that text to your AI provider as described above — or, with On-device AI, to no one. When the page is open in Safari, Arci reads it from there instead and makes no request.

Like any app's web requests, each of these carries your IP address and the system's standard user agent, which names Arci's build number and your macOS version.

Links you open. A web search, a link action or a link in a result opens in your browser; Arci makes no request itself, and your browser and the site's policies apply. When what you type matches nothing and you press ↩, Arci searches the web with your first search action — Google, unless you change it.

Actions you write. Shell commands and Apple Shortcuts you add to Arci run with your permissions and may use the internet; Arci doesn't inspect them. Read what an action does before you add it.

Prayukta's Services

Arci Builder uses a service Prayukta runs at arci.prayukta.com, and Arci Pro will too when it launches. Each is used only when you choose it, and the service keeps counts, not content — unless you choose to share your builds.

• Arci Builder — building actions from your own words. When you press Build, Arci sends your description and your actions.json to arci.prayukta.com, which asks Anthropic's Claude to write the changes and sends them back for you to review; nothing changes until you apply them. The service counts builds, and doesn't keep your descriptions or your actions unless you turn on Share my builds (Settings → Actions, below the Build field; off unless you turn it on). Then, to improve Arci Builder, it keeps each build you make — your description, your actions.json as sent, and what was built or why it wasn't — for 90 days, with the time and whether you build free or with Pro. Nothing that identifies you goes with it: not this Mac's token, your IP address or this Mac's name. Your actions are kept as they are, so anything you've written into one (a folder path, an address) is in them. Only Prayukta reads them, and we don't sell or share them. Turn it off and later builds aren't kept. The first time you build, Arci asks the service for a random token for this Mac, sending only a random name for it ("Arci on Mac" and four random characters). There's no account and nothing about you; the token just counts your free builds.
• Arci Pro licenses (coming soon) — when Pro launches and you enter a license key, Arci sends it to arci.prayukta.com with a random name for this Mac ("Arci on Mac" and four random characters). The service checks the key with Dodo Payments and gives this Mac a token of its own. It keeps your license key and Dodo's record of the activation, but only a fingerprint of the token, and checks the license with Dodo at most once a day. Removing Pro from a Mac frees its place on the license.
• AI Search on Arci (coming soon) — part of Arci Pro, and off until you turn it on in Settings → AI; if you have your own key, it stays the default. What you search goes to arci.prayukta.com and on to the web search and AI providers that answer it. The service counts searches to keep to the monthly allowance; it doesn't keep what you searched for.

To stop abuse, the service counts requests for tokens and license activations per IP address, for up to two days.

Payments. When Arci Pro launches, it will be sold by Dodo Payments as the merchant of record. Your payment details, billing address and tax information go to Dodo, not to Prayukta, under Dodo's own privacy policy.

Permissions

Arci asks for a macOS permission only when you run something that needs it, and works without all of them: Accessibility to read selected text and paste results, Screen Recording to read text from an area of the screen, Notifications for timer banners, Reminders to add a reminder to Apple Reminders, and Files & Folders to tidy a folder you choose. Getting started explains each. Arci never needs Full Disk Access.

What Arci Keeps

Everything is in ~/Library/Application Support/Arci/, unless you move your notes elsewhere:

• History (history.sqlite) — what you ran, the result (up to 64 KB each), the app you were in, and for answers the provider and model. Text you pasted, selected, copied or read off the screen is described ("38 lines pasted", "selection in Mail") rather than stored, but a result — a corrected paragraph, a search link — can contain what it worked on. Kept until you clear it, or for the time you choose in Settings → History, where you can also stop keeping results, stop learning, or stop recording. The file is readable only by your macOS account; it isn't encrypted.
• Clipboard history (clips.sqlite) — what you copy: text, links, images, colors, and files as their paths, not their contents. It's on by default; turn it off, shorten it, or clear it in Settings → Clipboard. Text is kept 30 days and images and files 7 by default, and free Arci keeps them for up to 90 and 30 days, from their last use; pinned clips until you unpin them. Every clip is encrypted (AES-GCM) with a key kept in your Keychain; only times, kinds and sizes are readable without it. Passwords, API keys, card numbers and one-time codes are masked, kept in memory only, and gone after 10 minutes. Copies from Passwords and Keychain Access, anything a password manager marks as hidden, and whatever was on the clipboard when Arci started are never kept. You can add apps to ignore.
• Notes — plain Markdown files in your notes folder, until you delete them.
• Your actions (actions.json, and actions.json.bak after Arci adds a built-in action).
• Small records that make Arci faster to use — how often you open each app and run each action, the emoji you use and the searches you found them with, colors you picked and the app you were in, your timers (finished ones for a day), a record of each folder you tidied so it can be undone, the latest currency rates, and cached app icons in ~/Library/Caches/com.prayukta.arci.
• Settings — kept in macOS preferences (com.prayukta.arci). Besides switches, they hold your world clock places, your notes folder, the apps clipboard history ignores, and the last language you translated into.

If Arci ever can't open its history or clipboard database, it sets the file aside beside the new one instead of deleting it.

Your Keychain

API keys you add in Settings → AI are stored only in your Keychain, under com.prayukta.arci — never in a file or in preferences. So are the random key that encrypts clipboard history and the token Arci Builder or Arci Pro gives this Mac. None of them is synced to iCloud.

Your Choices

• Use On-device AI and Translate on This Mac to keep text off the internet entirely
• Turn off, shorten or clear history in Settings → History, and clipboard history in Settings → Clipboard
• Forget a single history row or clip with ⌘⌫
• Delete ~/Library/Application Support/Arci to remove everything Arci keeps, and its items under com.prayukta.arci in Keychain Access

Beyond the counts and license records described above, and builds you choose to share, Prayukta holds no copy of your data.

This Website

arci.prayukta.com is a set of static pages with no cookies, analytics or tracking. It's served by Cloudflare, which handles the requests to deliver it; its fonts come from Google Fonts; and Arci downloads come from GitHub. Each processes your request (including your IP address) to serve it, under its own privacy policy.

Who We Are

Arci is made by Prayukta, an independent software maker in Bengaluru, India. Prayukta is responsible for arci.prayukta.com and the services on this page. Write to support@prayukta.com about anything here.

Your Rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it. For Arci that's very little: the build count tied to a random token and, once Pro launches, a license record. Write to support@prayukta.com and we'll reply within 30 days. Wherever you live, you get the same answer.

Arci isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them.

Changes to This Policy

If Arci starts sending anything new, or keeping anything new, this page changes first, and the date at the top with it.

Contact

Questions about privacy in Arci: support@prayukta.com