Last Updated: August 27, 2026
Openband is a Wi-Fi analyzer that runs entirely on your Mac. This policy describes what the app does with your data. It is short, because the app does very little with it.
To list the Wi-Fi networks around you, Openband must ask for Location Services access. This is a macOS rule, not ours: macOS treats nearby network names as location data, because the networks around you can reveal where you are.
Openband never requests, reads, or stores your geographic location. The app contains no code that asks for coordinates. The permission exists solely so macOS will let the app see network names and identifiers, and everything the app learns stays on your Mac.
If you decline the permission, the parts of Openband that don't need it — your own connection's details and the walk-around meter — keep working fully.
With Location access granted, Openband reads what your Mac's Wi-Fi hardware can hear: network names, hardware identifiers (BSSIDs), channels, bands, signal strengths, and security types of nearby networks, plus the details of your own connection. This information is displayed to you, kept briefly in memory for charts and history, and never written anywhere else or transmitted.
Manufacturer names shown in the radio table come from a copy of the public IEEE registry that ships inside the app — no lookup ever happens over the network.
The optional Openband Pro unlock is a one-time purchase processed entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details. Whether you have purchased is stored on your Mac and in your Apple account for Restore Purchases; Openband adds no purchase tracking of its own.
If Openband's privacy behavior ever changes, this page and the app's App Store privacy label will change with it, and the date above will be updated.
Questions about privacy: openband [at] zebel.ai