Privacy

Ghostties is a terminal app that runs on your Mac. It does not send your data anywhere.

What we collect

Nothing. No telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports.

What's stored locally on your Mac

~/.config/ghostty/ — your terminal config
~/Library/Application Support/com.seansmithdesign.ghostties/ — workspaces and preferences
.ghostties/tasks/*.md (per-project) — your task notes, in plain Markdown

None of this leaves your machine.

Network calls

Ghostties checks for updates by fetching appcast-beta.xml or appcast-stable.xml from ghostties.org. That's the only network call Ghostties itself makes — no system info, no unique identifier, just an HTTP GET for the file.

You can turn updates off entirely with auto-update = off in your config.

The ghostties.org server (Vercel) may log standard HTTP request metadata per Vercel's privacy policy.

The embedded browser

Ghostties includes a Chromium-based browser panel. It only loads URLs you type into it — no home page, no background fetches, and tabs default to about:blank. Once you navigate somewhere, that's ordinary web browsing: Chromium is making requests to that site, the same as any browser would, subject to that site's own privacy policy and tracking — not ours.

macOS permissions

When Ghostties asks for Accessibility, Screen Recording, or other permissions, those grants stay on your machine. Nothing is transmitted.

Open source

All code is at github.com/SeanSmithWorks/ghostties. Built on upstream Ghostty (MIT-licensed).

Last updated April 26, 2026