An app that tidies your files reads your file names, and sometimes what’s in your files. That’s a fair reason to ask where all of it goes.
What stays on your Mac
Everything about your files: their names, what’s in them, where they are, what Oma did with them, your recipes and your History. Oma reads and sorts them on your Mac, and none of it is uploaded anywhere.
What leaves it
One thing: whether you’ve bought Grand Oma or started the free trial.
Omaculate checks your purchase through RevenueCat, the one third-party service in the app, with its analytics switched off. That’s how Grand Oma works on every Mac signed in to the same Apple Account without you buying it twice.
On the App Store, the privacy label says the same thing: Purchases and Identifiers (an app user ID), linked to you, used for App Functionality. Nothing else is collected.
What Omaculate can see
Omaculate runs in Apple’s App Sandbox. It can only open folders you let it into:
- Downloads is let in without a prompt, because it’s the folder most people tidy.
- The Desktop and any other folder need your say-so once, through the macOS folder picker.
- Pictures, Movies and Music are only used when you pick one as the place a recipe moves files to. Oma never looks through them.
Omaculate doesn’t ask for Full Disk Access, Accessibility or permission to control other apps. It can’t see the rest of your Mac.
Smart naming
Grand Oma’s smart naming names files by what’s in them, so it does read the document. It uses Apple’s Foundation Models, which run on your Mac. Oma reads the first 2,000 characters of a PDF or text document and turns that into a short name. The text isn’t sent anywhere.
Smart naming requires macOS 26 and Apple Intelligence. Where it isn’t available, Settings says why, and recipes use the file’s own name instead.
Leaving
Settings › Clear all data removes your recipes, History and the folders Oma was let into. Your files stay where they are. Then drag Omaculate to the Trash.
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