What Vernacular reads, and what it never does

• The programs in your Applications folders: the first few kilobytes of each program file, which say what processors it’s made for. Nothing inside your documents, and nothing an app has saved.
• What each app declares about itself: its name, version and the parts it carries, and its code signature, which says where it came from and when it was built.
• Add-ons outside the apps: printer and scanner drivers, audio plug-ins, helpers and background services in your Mac’s Library folders, read the same way.
• Which apps are open through Rosetta right now, from macOS, so it can say “Open right now through Rosetta.”
• Folders you add, only if you add them, kept as a read-only bookmark. Add a folder or disk

What it sends

Nothing. Vernacular has no network code: it never connects to the internet, and nothing it reads leaves your Mac. No account, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting service and no server of ours. Nothing comes to us. Links to a developer’s or maker’s site open in your browser. Buying and restoring the unlock go through Apple’s App Store.

What it changes

Nothing, unless you ask. The only change it can make is to move an app you choose to the Trash, after you confirm, one at a time, and Put Back works. Move an app to the Trash

Stored on your Mac

Your settings, the last read (so it can say what changed) and how you settled each item in the checklist stay in Vernacular’s own storage on your Mac. A report is saved only where you choose, as a PDF, or copied when you press Copy as Text.

The full privacy policy is on Vernacular’s site.