Hardwire

Privacy Policy

Effective October 24, 2026

The short version: Hardwire collects nothing. It has no account, no analytics, no ads and no network access. Everything it does happens on your Mac. If you connect an AI app, that app's own privacy policy covers what it does with your conversation.

What Hardwire reads, and why

Connected mice and keyboards (name, maker, connection type, and button or key presses) so it can show them and do what you set for each button or key. Presses are handled the moment they happen and are never recorded, logged or stored.
Paired Bluetooth devices (names and connection state), only if you allow Bluetooth, so it can list devices that are switched off and reconnect them when you ask.
Installed apps (their names in the Applications folders) only when you type "open …", to find the app you mean.

What Hardwire stores

Your settings: what each button and key should do, your key remaps, scrolling settings, and any 3D models made for your devices. They are saved in Hardwire's own container on your Mac and never leave it. Deleting Hardwire deletes them.

What Hardwire shares

Nothing. Hardwire does not send any data to the developer or anyone else, and contains no third-party SDKs, trackers or advertising. The only exception is one you set up yourself: an AI app you connect can ask Hardwire about your devices and settings, on your Mac (see below).

Emails you choose to send

Help › Suggest a 3D Improvement opens a new message in your own email app. It is filled in with what you typed, the Hardwire and macOS versions, the selected device's name, maker and USB IDs and, if you leave the box ticked, a picture of the 3D model. You can read and change all of it before sending, and nothing is sent unless you press Send. Emails you send are used only to answer you and improve Hardwire, and are deleted when they are no longer needed for that.

AI apps you connect

You can connect Hardwire to an AI app that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), using Settings › Connect AI. That AI app is a separate product, made by another company, that you choose and install yourself. It is never connected unless you set it up.

What passes between them: the AI app starts a copy of Hardwire on your Mac and talks to it directly, on your Mac. Hardwire tells it your connected mice and keyboards (names, makers, USB IDs, buttons and keys), your Hardwire settings, and pictures of 3D models. The AI app can change Hardwire's button, key, scrolling and 3D model settings and pause Hardwire. It cannot read what you type, see your screen or change left and right click.
Hardwire still sends nothing. The copy of Hardwire the AI app starts has no network access, like the app itself.
What the AI app does with it is up to that app. What Hardwire tells the AI app becomes part of your conversation, and many AI apps send conversations to their own servers. That is covered by the AI app's privacy policy, not this one. To stop it, remove Hardwire from the AI app's settings.

Permissions

macOS asks you before Hardwire can use Accessibility (to change what buttons do), Input Monitoring (to read extra mouse buttons and keys with actions) and Bluetooth (optional). You can turn any of them off at any time in System Settings › Privacy & Security.

Children

Hardwire collects no personal information from anyone, including children under 13.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hi@masonearl.com. Hardwire is made by Mason Earl, an independent developer.