Privacy
Your data stays on your Mac.
Local-only storage
Your name, work profile, body profile, quiet hours, streak history, and per-tip stats all live in a SQLite database on your Mac. Nothing is transmitted without your explicit opt-in.
No account, no cloud sync
There are no accounts, no email collection, and no sign-up flow. You download Pebl and it works. There is no cloud sync, no backend, and no remote database.
One automatic network call
The only thing Pebl automatically fetches from the internet is its own next version — a check against GitHub every 4 hours. No user data is included in that request. Before installing any update, Pebl asks your permission. All fonts are bundled locally inside the app — no CDN requests, no third-party font services, no IP leakage to font providers.
Optional analytics (off by default)
Pebl includes an opt-in analytics integration (PostHog) that is disabled by default. If you choose to enable it in Settings, anonymous usage events are transmitted — no identity, no location, no screen content, no contacts. While the app is open, a “heartbeat” event fires every 30 minutes so we can measure daily-active usage; that event contains only an anonymous device ID and an uptime number, no user data. You can disable analytics at any time, and Pebl will stop transmitting immediately.
How “Why now?” detects Zoom, Teams, and Meet
To stay silent during calls, Pebl asks macOS every few seconds which application is frontmost and whether its window title contains “Zoom”, “Teams”, “Meet”, “Slack”, “Discord”, or a handful of other meeting apps. This uses the macOS Automation / AppleScript permission that the app requests on first launch. Pebl never reads the contents of any window, and it never records or transmits any window titles — the check runs on your Mac and the result is a single yes/no that controls whether to interrupt you.
Body profile stays on your Mac
If you tell Pebl about a pregnancy, a disc, a stiff neck, vertigo, or high blood pressure during onboarding, that information is stored locally and used only to filter the tip library. It is never transmitted, never backed up to a server, and is deleted when you uninstall.
Export and delete your data
All your data can be exported or deleted at any time from Settings inside the app. Uninstalling Pebl removes everything.
What we never collect
Pebl never collects your identity, location, contacts, audio, screen content, browsing history, clipboard, or files. This applies regardless of whether analytics are enabled.
Website analytics
This website (peblapp.com) uses basic, privacy-respecting analytics to understand page visits. No personal data is collected.
Last updated: April 2026