Privacy Policy.

Last updated · October 21, 2026

Anti Color is an app for macOS, Windows and Android that desaturates color in apps you choose. This policy explains what data Anti Color uses, and what it does and does not do with it.

Everything below until Anti Color for Windows and Anti Color for Android is about Anti Color for Mac. Anti Color for Windows works the same way, with one difference: it activates a license key with our server. Anti Color for Android uses Android's accessibility service and sells through Google Play; its section explains what that involves.

The short version

On Mac, Anti Color does not collect, transmit, or store any of your personal data on any server. Everything Anti Color knows about you stays on your Mac. There is no analytics, no tracking, no telemetry, and no account.

What stays on your device

Anti Color stores a small set of preferences locally on your Mac using macOS's standard UserDefaults system. None of this leaves your device:

• Whether Anti Color is turned on
• Your drain mode (drain only listed apps, or drain everything except listed apps)
• The bundle identifiers of the apps you have added to your list (e.g. com.apple.Safari)
• The websites you have added to your list (e.g. youtube.com)
• Whether you have completed onboarding and seen the premium screen
• Your dock / menu bar visibility preference
• Whether Anti Color may have left the color filter on, so it can turn it off after an unexpected quit
• The date you installed Anti Color
• In the Mac App Store version only: when your free trial started, a counter of app launches, and whether you have been shown a review prompt — used only to decide locally when your trial ends and when to ask you for an App Store rating

You can erase all of this at any time by uninstalling Anti Color.

What Anti Color observes while running

To know when to apply or remove the color filter, Anti Color listens for macOS notifications about which app is currently in the foreground. This information is read only in memory, used to decide whether the current app should be drained, and is never written to disk or transmitted anywhere.

If you add websites to your list, Anti Color also checks the address of the page open in your web browser while a supported browser is in the foreground, so it can apply the filter to the sites you chose. macOS asks your permission once for each browser (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation), and you can withdraw it there at any time. Anti Color only compares the site's domain with your list. It doesn't read page content, other tabs, or your browsing history, and it never saves or sends the address. With no websites listed, Anti Color doesn't check addresses at all.

Anti Color is distributed through the Mac App Store and Setapp, and runs inside Apple's App Sandbox.

How Anti Color applies the filter

Anti Color does not modify other apps or capture their contents. To desaturate the screen, Anti Color triggers macOS's built-in Color Filters accessibility feature by running one of two Apple Shortcuts that you import during onboarding (“Drain Color Filters On” / “Drain Color Filters Off”). The actual color change is performed by macOS, not by Anti Color.

Anti Color runs these shortcuts in the background through Shortcuts Events, which macOS asks you to allow once (System Settings → Privacy & Security → Automation). Anti Color only asks Shortcuts Events for the names of your shortcuts, to check that its two are installed, and to run those two. It does not read, change, or run any other shortcut.

The Setapp version of Anti Color doesn't use Shortcuts. It turns Color Filters on and off directly, the same setting as System Settings → Accessibility → Display → Color Filters, and changes no other setting.

Purchases and payments

In the Mac App Store version, Anti Color Premium is available as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase, sold and processed entirely through Apple's App Store using StoreKit. Offer codes are redeemed through Apple too. Anti Color does not see, receive, or store your name, email, payment method, or App Store account details. Your purchase is verified on your Mac using Apple's signed transactions. Anti Color's free trial runs entirely on your Mac and needs no account.

Apple's handling of your purchase is governed by Apple's own privacy policy: apple.com/legal/privacy

If you use Anti Color through Setapp, there are no in-app purchases. Access comes from your Setapp membership: Setapp's framework, built into that version of Anti Color, talks to the Setapp app on your Mac to confirm your membership, show Anti Color's release notes, and report app usage to Setapp. This is governed by Setapp's privacy policy.

Anti Color for Windows

Anti Color for Windows keeps its settings on your PC: whether it's on, its mode, the apps you've added (as the location of each app's program file), whether you've finished onboarding, and where Anti Color shows itself (taskbar, tray, or both). None of this leaves your PC.

Like Anti Color for Mac, it watches which app is in front only in memory, to decide when to turn the color filter on or off, and never saves or sends it. It applies the filter type you chose in Windows' Color filters settings using Windows' built-in Magnification API; it doesn't modify other apps or capture their contents.

The one thing it sends is for your license. Anti Color for Windows contacts our license server when you activate it, about once every 30 days after that to check the license is still valid, and when you deactivate a PC. Each time it sends:

• Your license key (when activating)
• A scrambled (hashed) ID for your PC, made from Windows' machine ID, which can't be turned back into it
• Your PC's name, so you and we can tell your PCs apart
• The version of Anti Color

We store these with your license so a key works on up to three PCs and a refunded purchase stops working, and for nothing else. We don't sell or share them. They're kept for as long as your license exists; email us to have them deleted. Anti Color for Windows has no analytics, advertising, or tracking, and never sends anything about the apps you use or add.

The activation itself is kept on your PC, encrypted to your Windows account. Uninstalling Anti Color removes it and your settings.

Anti Color for Windows is installed and updated through the Microsoft Store, and our license server runs on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft's handling of your data is governed by the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

License keys come with The Anti Phone System, bought on antibrowser.app; what we keep about that purchase is described in its privacy policy.

Anti Color for Android

Anti Color for Android uses Android's accessibility service to know which app is in front, so it can turn Android's built-in color correction on or off at the right time. It only learns which app it is (its package name, such as com.instagram.android). It doesn't read what's on your screen or what you type. Which app is in front is only held in memory and is never saved or sent. Anti Color explains this and asks for your consent before it sends you to turn the service on, and you can turn it off at any time in Accessibility settings.

The color change itself is done by Android. Anti Color doesn't modify other apps or capture their contents. It checks some of your phone's accessibility settings to confirm it's set up, without changing them. To let you pick apps, it reads the list of apps on your phone; that list stays on your phone.

Anti Color keeps these settings on your phone and never sends them anywhere:

• Whether Anti Color is on, and its mode
• The apps you've added
• Your setup progress, including whether you've accepted the accessibility notice
• When your free trial started, and when to ask you for a review
• Your purchase status as last reported by Google Play, so Anti Color works when you're offline
• Whether Anti Color may have left color correction on, so it can turn it off after an unexpected stop

Android may include these settings in your phone's backup to your Google account. That backup is handled by Google, and we can't access it; you can turn backup off in Android's settings. Uninstalling Anti Color removes the settings from your phone.

Anti Color for Android has no server, no account, and no analytics, advertising, or tracking, and its own code never connects to the internet. Purchases use Google Play's billing library, which talks to Google Play on your phone; anything it sends Google is Google's own processing under the Google Privacy Policy, not data Anti Color collects.

The annual subscription, its free-trial offer, and lifetime access are sold and processed entirely by Google Play. Anti Color never sees your name, email, payment method, or Google account details: it only learns from Google Play, on your phone, whether you have access, and confirms new purchases with Google Play. Redeeming codes and managing or cancelling your subscription happen on Google Play. If you choose to leave a review from inside Anti Color, it goes to Google Play under your Google account; Anti Color doesn't see it. Google's handling of your data is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.

Children

Anti Color is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.

Links to other services

Anti Color for Mac links to Apple's standard terms of use, Apple's subscription management page, and this privacy policy; Anti Color for Windows links to this privacy policy; Anti Color for Android links to this privacy policy, the Google Play Terms of Service, and Google Play's pages for redeeming codes and managing your subscription. Following those links sends your request to the linked party (Apple, Google, or our website host), governed by their respective privacy policies. Each app's Contact Support option opens an email to us in your mail app.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at anticolor.app/privacy with a new “Last updated” date. Material changes will also be surfaced inside the app the next time you open it.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email: hello@anticolor.app