Support & privacy

Support

For questions, bug reports or feature requests, open an issue on GitHub or email alex@writea.com.

Privacy policy

MScopes collects nothing and sends nothing. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting to us, no account, and no network connection made by the app on its own behalf. Nothing it renders or plays is transmitted anywhere.

System audio

MScopes reads the audio your Mac is already playing through a CoreAudio process tap, so it can react to it. macOS asks for this permission once, on first launch. The audio is analyzed in memory to drive the visuals and is never recorded, saved or sent anywhere.

Preset libraries

Pointing MScopes at a folder of .avs presets grants it read access to that folder only, so it can list and play what's inside. It never looks outside the folder you chose, and it never uploads anything it finds there.

What is written, and where

The app writes a few preference and settings files under your own user profile and reads them back on launch: window layout, the last preset library folder you chose, picture and macro settings. They never leave your machine. A diagnostic log at ~/Library/Logs/MScopes/engine.log records audio and rendering health, also only on your Mac.

Apple Music plugin

Installing the visualizer plugin from the app copies it into ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins/, where Music loads it like any other visualizer. It runs inside Music's own visualizer sandbox and follows the same policy: nothing it renders is recorded, saved or sent anywhere.

This website

mscopes.com uses no cookies, analytics or trackers. The demo beat is synthesized in your browser and the live visuals run there too; nothing is sent back.

Distribution

MScopes is a free direct download, a Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized disk image, not a Mac App Store app, and open source on GitHub (BSD 3-Clause). There is no purchase, license check or account of any kind.

Children

MScopes is a music visualizer. It is not directed at children, and it collects nothing from anyone.

Contact

Questions about this policy: open an issue on GitHub or email alex@writea.com.