Privacy

Updated 2 October 2026

The short version

Desktamer has no account. Your pets, habits, notes, stats and settings stay in a folder on your computer. It goes online only for the things below, and none of them carry your pets or what you do in the app.

What the app sends

Free week

Desktamer's free week starts the first time it opens, even offline. So that reinstalling it doesn't start another one, it asks api.desktamer.com, our own server, to remember the first time it sees this computer. All it sends is a code made from this computer's id for this alone, which can't be matched with anything else Desktamer sends; the server keeps that code and when it first saw it. Desktamer also notes the start outside its data folder: in your Keychain on a Mac, in the registry on Windows, or in ~/.local/state on Linux.

License

Desktamer checks your key with Lemon Squeezy, who sell Desktamer. Activating sends the key and this computer's name (such as "Sam's MacBook Air"), so each activation can be told apart. Then api.desktamer.com confirms the activation for this computer: it gets the key, the activation's id and the same code, asks Lemon Squeezy about the key, and keeps only which code each activation belongs to, never the key. After that, a daily check sends the key and the activation's id to Lemon Squeezy. Offline, a license keeps working.

Updates

Every few hours Desktamer asks updates.desktamer.com whether there's a new version. The request carries nothing about you or your pets. You can turn this off in Settings.

Gallery

Nothing goes online until you open the Gallery tab. Then it asks codex-pets.net for the listing, the pictures and the pets you get. Import from URL downloads only the address you paste.

Crash reports

If Desktamer crashes, it sends Sentry a report of where in its code that happened, with its version and your system's. Reports pass through our relay at crash.desktamer.com, which drops your IP address. Names in file paths, email addresses and ids are removed first. Nothing is sent unless it crashes, and you can turn this off in Settings.

Usage statistics

Once a day, Desktamer tells Jelto, our analytics service, that it's in use: its version, your system's name, version and processor type, and whether it's activated or in its free week. It also says when it moves to a new version, when a free week starts (or carries on after a reinstall), how activating a key went and how an update went, as short codes such as "offline". These are counted under a random id made on this computer, not your license key, name or email. You can turn this off in Settings, which deletes the id.

Our server at api.desktamer.com writes no logs. It uses your IP address only to limit how often one computer can ask, and doesn't store it.

This website

desktamer.com has no cookies. It counts visits with Jelto, without cookies or anything stored in your browser: each page view sends the page's address, the site that linked you here, your screen's width and browser language, and how far you scrolled and how long you stayed. Jelto counts visitors afresh each day rather than following you. The "Send pets home" switch is remembered in your browser's local storage, and never leaves it. A picture you drop on the page stays in your browser.

The free tools work the same way: the files you give them are read in your browser and never uploaded. Jelto hears only that a tool was used (that a pet was checked, say), never what was in it.

Buying

Lemon Squeezy handles payment as the merchant of record, under their privacy policy. We see what they share with sellers: your name, email address and country, and what you bought.

Who we are

Desktamer is made by Taha Bozdemir at Bold Biscuit. Questions go to hello@boldbiscuit.com.