There is no network code in the app — no analytics, no crash reporting, no account, no telemetry of any kind. Everything below exists to explain that in detail, not to soften it.
None. Data Inspector Pro has never requested a network entitlement, so it has no way to send anything anywhere even if it wanted to. There is no server, no analytics SDK, and no crash reporter bundled with the app.
The subscription is bought through the App Store. Apple takes the payment and tells the app one thing: whether a subscription is active on this Apple Account. The app never sees your name, your Apple Account or your payment details, and neither does the developer.
You choose every file yourself — through the open panel, a drag onto the window, or Finder's "Open With." The app reads that file to display its schema and rows and, if you unlock it, to write your edits back. That file never leaves your Mac, and nothing about its contents is reported anywhere.
The first time you unlock a file for editing, Data Inspector Pro copies
it into the app's own sandboxed container so File ▸ Revert to
Safety Copy can restore the original exactly. A copy is also taken
before a change that cannot be undone, such as dropping a table. These
automatic copies stay on your Mac, are never transmitted, and are deleted
after two weeks.
Snapshots you take yourself, from File ▸ Snapshots, are kept
until you delete them — deleting something you deliberately named and chose
to keep would not be housekeeping. They live in the same container and are
equally never transmitted. Everything the app has copied, automatic or not,
is listed with its size in Settings ▸ Behaviour and can be
removed there at any time with Delete All.
Encrypted Realm and SQLCipher files are decrypted in memory so their
contents can be shown. The key or passphrase you type is held in memory for
as long as the file is open and is never written to disk, never stored in
the keychain, and never sent anywhere. No decrypted copy of the file is
written either — unless you ask for one with File ▸ Save Decrypted
Copy, which writes a plain, unencrypted database to the location you
choose and tells you that is what it is.
The app runs inside Apple's App Sandbox. It can read or write only the files and folders you explicitly grant through the system's open panel. Those grants are stored on your Mac as security-scoped bookmarks so you aren't asked again on relaunch — Apple's mechanism, not ours, and not something we can see.
None are involved. No advertising SDKs, no analytics vendors, no
embedded frameworks that call home. The only third-party code in the app
is Realm's own library, used solely to read and write .realm
files you open.
Data Inspector Pro is a developer tool, not directed at children, and collects no personal information from anyone who uses it.
If this policy ever changes, the date above will change with it. Given what the app does, the substance is unlikely to.
Questions about this policy, or anything else about the app: