Privacy Policy

Last updated 25 September 2026 · Applies to ScreenNamer for macOS and screennamer.com

Who this is from

ScreenNamer is made by Turbo Sugar LLC. If anything here is unclear, write to daniel@turbosugar.com.

What ScreenNamer does not do

ScreenNamer runs in Apple's App Sandbox and requests no network entitlement of any kind. macOS refuses network connections from the app at the operating-system level. As a direct consequence:

• There is no analytics, telemetry, or usage tracking.
• There is no crash reporting.
• There are no accounts, logins, or profiles.
• There are no advertisements and no advertising identifiers.
• There are no third-party SDKs or services embedded in the app.
• Nothing about your screenshots, filenames, or usage is transmitted anywhere.

This is not a promise about our intentions. It is a property of how the app is built, and you can verify it: the app's entitlements are visible in the bundle, and macOS enforces them whether we like it or not.

What ScreenNamer stores on your Mac

Three things, all inside the app's own sandbox container on your machine:

• A reference to the folder you chose. When you pick your screenshot folder, macOS gives the app a security-scoped bookmark, a token that grants access to that one folder. The bookmark is saved so you don't have to choose again after restarting.
• Names you have saved. Up to 200 of the names you type, with when you last used one and how often, so the app can suggest them later. This is only ever populated by names you type and confirm. Nothing is recorded until you actually rename a screenshot.
• Your preferences. Whether suggestions are switched on, whether to rename only files macOS marked as screenshots, whether the rename panel stays open and where it appears, and whether you have completed the first-run walkthrough.

None of this is transmitted. None of it is shared. It sits in your user library like any other app's settings.

Separately, like most Mac apps, ScreenNamer writes short status messages to the macOS system log, such as when a screenshot is detected or why a file was skipped. They never contain filenames, and the folder path is marked private, so macOS hides it in any log shared from your Mac. The system log stays on your Mac and macOS clears old entries on its own.

Your screenshots

ScreenNamer reads image files in the folder you selected in order to do its job, and only in these ways:

• It reads a file's size, creation date and modification date to tell whether it is a new capture and whether it has finished writing.
• It checks whether macOS marked the file as a screenshot, which macOS does for every capture it saves. That is how it tells a capture apart from another image saved to the same folder.
• When something in the folder changes, it lists the files there and their creation dates, so it can catch a new screenshot even if macOS failed to announce it. This reads names and dates only; no file is opened, and the list is not kept.
• It generates a small preview to show you in the rename panel, which exists only in memory while the panel is open.
• It reads the image's pixel dimensions to display them.
• It renames the file, or moves it to the Trash if you press Escape.
• If you choose Save to Clipboard, it reads the full image and places it on the system clipboard, then moves the file to the Trash. The copy happens first: if it fails, the file is left where it is.

The clipboard is the one place a screenshot leaves ScreenNamer's control, and only when you ask for it. macOS makes the clipboard readable by every app you run, and if you have Handoff switched on, Universal Clipboard may carry it to your other Apple devices. That is the system clipboard working as designed rather than ScreenNamer sending anything anywhere, but it is worth knowing before you copy something sensitive.

The contents of your screenshots are never analysed, catalogued, uploaded, or retained. There is no OCR, no image recognition, and no AI. The app has no copy of your screenshots and no index of them.

Folder access

ScreenNamer can only see the folder you explicitly choose through the standard macOS open panel. It does not request full disk access, and it cannot read your Documents, your Photos, or anywhere else on your Mac. If you revoke access or move the folder, the app stops watching and asks you to choose again.

Copy Diagnostics

At the bottom of the Settings window there is a Copy Diagnostics button, for when ScreenNamer isn't working. Clicking it places a short text report on the clipboard: the app and macOS versions, the folder being watched (with your account name shortened to ~), whether that folder can be reached and how many items it holds, whether the app has seen recent activity there, and your settings. It contains no filenames and nothing from your screenshots.

The report goes nowhere unless you paste it somewhere yourself. ScreenNamer cannot send it. If you email it to us, we receive what you sent and use it only to help you.

Launch at login

If you turn on Launch at Login, ScreenNamer registers itself with macOS using Apple's standard mechanism. That registration lives with the operating system, not with us, and switching the setting off removes it.

Your choices

• Erase the saved names. Settings → History → Clear. This removes them immediately and permanently.
• Turn suggestions off. Settings → App → Suggest previous names. Nothing further is recorded.
• Revoke folder access. Choose a different folder, or quit the app.
• Remove everything. Deleting ScreenNamer removes the app; deleting its container in ~/Library/Containers/ removes every setting and saved name along with it. Screenshots you have already renamed are your files and are left alone.

Children

ScreenNamer is a general-purpose utility and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.

Legal bases and your rights

Regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA govern the collection and processing of personal data. ScreenNamer collects and processes none, and transmits none, so there is no data for us to disclose, correct, export, sell, or delete on request. Nothing is ever sold or shared. The only information we ever receive is what you choose to send us yourself, such as a support email, and we use it only to reply. Data held on your own Mac remains under your control at all times.

Changes to this policy

If ScreenNamer ever gains a feature that changes any of the above (a network connection of any sort, for instance), this page will be updated before that version ships, and the change will be described in the app's release notes rather than quietly amended here.

This website

screennamer.com uses a privacy-friendly analytics service to count visits and see which pages people read. It sets no cookies and collects nothing that identifies you. The app itself has no network access at all, as described above.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or concerns: daniel@turbosugar.com.