Privacy

Last updated November 8, 2026.

In short: Brae has no servers that receive your questions or your data. It reads a window only when you ask, sends it to the AI you picked (Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini) with your own account or key, and keeps everything else on your Mac. We don't track you, and there are no ads or analytics.

When you ask a question

When you press the Ask shortcut, Brae takes one picture of the window you're in and reads its text, and sends them with your question to the AI you picked in Settings › Ask & AI: Anthropic (Claude, through your Anthropic API key, or through the Claude Code on your Mac if you turn on your Claude plan), OpenAI (ChatGPT, through your OpenAI API key) or Google (Gemini, through your Gemini API key). That company's own terms and privacy policy apply to that data. Brae's makers never receive it.

When a guide is used for a question, its text goes along with the question to the same AI, as instructions for the answer. Brae never sees your Claude, OpenAI or Google sign-in: with your Claude plan, Claude Code signs in on its own.

Brae never reads password managers or password fields, and it shows you which window it read. It can't tell a private browser window from any other, so don't ask about one you'd rather keep to yourself.

Connected apps

• Apps on your Mac (Calendar, Reminders, Notes, Obsidian, GitHub through the gh tool, Canvas): Brae looks things up only when the AI needs them for your question, and sends only those results to the AI you picked. Changes (adding an event, saving a note, posting a comment) happen only after you approve them on screen.
• Cloud apps (Notion, Jira & Confluence, Linear, Granola, Canva and others you add): you sign in on the app's own site. Your sign-in token stays in your Mac's Keychain. With Claude or ChatGPT it's passed to that company's connector so the AI can look things up for your question; with Gemini, Brae looks them up itself and sends only the results. Brae switches on only look-up tools for cloud apps.

What stays on your Mac

• Your earlier questions and answers (Recents), the Shelf, your guides, and your settings, in ~/Library/Application Support/Brae and Brae's preferences. Turn Recents off or clear them any time.
• Your API key, app sign-ins and license key, in your Mac's Keychain.

What reaches us

• Buying Brae: Stripe handles checkout and receives your email and payment details under Stripe's privacy policy. We keep your email and purchase so we can resend your license and answer support.
• Your license email: Resend sends the email with your license key, so it receives your email address and the key, under Resend's privacy policy.
• This website: getbrae.app is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes visitors' IP addresses to deliver the site and protect it from abuse, under Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• Updates: every six hours Brae checks getbrae.app for a new version. That request includes your IP address and Brae's version, as any web request does. We don't build profiles from it.
• Support: if you use Report a Problem or email us, we get what you send: the email includes Brae's version, your macOS version and Mac model, and you can see and edit it before sending.

Brae doesn't check your license online. It's checked on your Mac.

Your choices

Every connection can be switched off or removed in Settings › Connections. "Always allow" choices can be undone in Settings › Privacy. To have us delete your purchase record, email support@getbrae.app.

Children

Brae isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its date. Questions: support@getbrae.app.