Privacy policy

The app

Hyper Widgets, and Hyper Data, the helper that comes with it, read what your widgets show on your Mac: your calendars, reminders and photos (only after you allow them), what’s playing, your Mac’s processor, memory, storage, network and power, the batteries of nearby devices, your Focus, and whether the camera or microphone is in use. That stays on your Mac. The app has no account, no analytics, no telemetry and no tracking.

Some widgets show something from the internet. Hyper Data asks only for what a widget you’ve placed shows, and sends only what that request needs:

• Weather, from MET Norway (api.met.no): the latitude and longitude of the place you chose, or of your Mac if you let it use your location.
• Air quality, from Open-Meteo (air-quality-api.open-meteo.com): the same location.
• Currency rates, from Frankfurter (api.frankfurter.app): the currencies you picked.
• Stocks, delayed, from Yahoo Finance (query1.finance.yahoo.com): the symbols you follow.
• Crypto prices, from CoinGecko (api.coingecko.com); a wallet’s balance from Blockstream (blockstream.info) or a public Ethereum node, for the addresses you enter.
• News, from the feeds you choose (to begin with, Hacker News through hnrss.org and BBC News).
• The day’s reading: Wikipedia’s featured article (api.wikimedia.org) and Wikibooks (en.wikibooks.org).
• Music details, from MusicBrainz (musicbrainz.org): the artist and album of what’s playing.
• Book covers, from Open Library (covers.openlibrary.org): the book’s ISBN.
• The space station’s position, from CelesTrak (celestrak.org).
• GitHub, through your own GitHub command-line sign-in (gh), to GitHub.
• A few that need your own key or your own hardware: parcels (17TRACK), football fixtures (football-data.org) and Philips Hue lights (found through discovery.meethue.com, then your bridge on your own network).

Each request names the app in its user agent. These services have their own privacy policies. A widget you don’t place makes no request.

Nothing asks for a permission when the app opens. A widget that needs your calendars, reminders, photos, Focus, location, contacts or mail shows an “Allow” button, and macOS asks when you press it.

Your licence

Your licence is a file on your Mac, checked on your Mac. The app doesn’t send it anywhere. Hyper Island and Hyperlaunch read the same file, so your widgets unlock in them too. Buying opens our store page in your browser.

Buying

Paddle.com, our reseller and Merchant of Record, takes your payment and handles tax. Paddle collects your payment details under its own privacy policy; we never see your card.

From Paddle we receive your name, email, country and the details of your order. We keep them, with your licence, so that we can send your licence, send it again if you lose it, renew or refund it, and answer you. We keep them while your licence is in use and for as long as tax law requires, and we don’t sell or share them with anyone else.

This website

This website sets no cookies, keeps nothing in your browser’s storage and has no analytics. The widgets on it draw sample data and fetch nothing. It is served by Cloudflare, which processes technical data such as your IP address to deliver pages and protect the site, and may count visits without cookies.

“Get notified” opens an email to us in your own mail app. We use your address only to write to you when Hyper Widgets is out, and we delete it if you ask.

Your rights

Email hello@frustratedlabs.com to see, correct or delete what we hold about you. Deleting your record also ends our ability to resend or renew your licence.

Last updated 6 November 2026