Privacy
Your data stays on your Mac.
Pebl is built so almost nothing about you ever has to leave your laptop. Two opt-in switches send a narrow, named slice. That is the whole story. Below is the long form.
What pebl stores on your Mac
Pebl keeps everything in a local SQLite file at ~/Library/Application Support/pebl/pebl.db. None of it leaves your device.
What lives in that file: wellness session events (start time, duration, type, accept or dismiss), preferences (mobility profile, opt-out clusters, schedule, quiet hours, work profile, language), and aggregate stats for the dashboard (daily counts, streaks, weekly totals).
What pebl never collects
Pebl does not read, store, or transmit any of the following. Not in any opt-in path, not in any future setting, not ever:
Screen contents. Keystrokes. App contents. Document contents. Audio. Video. Location. Contacts. Calendar events. Files. Browsing history. Clipboard. Mouse coordinates beyond a yes or no idle signal.
What pebl sends to us, only with explicit opt-in
Two switches in Settings, both off by default. Flip either one and Pebl sends only what is described here. Flip them off and transmission stops the same second.
Crash reports. If something crashes, Pebl sends a stack trace. No PII. No app data. No tip content. Just the trace and the app version. We use these to fix bugs.
Product analytics. If you turn this on, Pebl sends event counts. Counts only. Never values. We see how many breaks were taken, never which ones. We see how often a setting changed, never to what. The event payload is bounded to a fixed schema with no free-text fields.
Third parties
PostHog handles product analytics if you opt in. It receives the event counts described above. Their privacy policy lives at https://posthog.com/privacy.
Our crash reporter pipes stack traces if you opt in. The pipeline is currently being finalized. The active provider will be named here, with a link to their privacy policy, before the crash opt-in toggle is turned on for any user.
If we ever add a third recipient, we will update this page and tell you in the app before the change takes effect.
Auto-updates and your IP address
Pebl uses electron-updater to check for new versions. The check is a basic HTTPS request to our public release manifest on GitHub. That request reveals your IP address and a user agent string (Electron version, OS) to GitHub, which is how the internet works. We do not log it. We do not receive it. GitHub's handling of update traffic is governed by their privacy statement at https://docs.github.com/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-privacy-statement.
Before installing any update, Pebl asks you. There is no silent install.
How Pebl knows you are on a call
To stay quiet during meetings, Pebl asks macOS which app is frontmost and whether the window title contains a meeting app name like Zoom, Teams, Meet, Slack, or Discord. The check uses the macOS Automation permission you grant on first launch. The result is a single yes or no that runs entirely on your Mac. Pebl never reads window contents and never transmits window titles.
Mobility profile and opt-out clusters
If you tell Pebl about pregnancy, a disc condition, hypertension, vertigo, or any other body signal during onboarding, it is stored locally and used only to filter the tip library. It never leaves your device. Clearing it in Settings removes it from the database.
Children
Pebl is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Your rights, exercised in one click
Export your data: Settings then Export. The app writes a JSON file you keep.
Delete all your data: Settings then Delete all data. The app wipes the local database.
Both are one click. No email, no form, no waiting. Uninstalling Pebl removes everything that's left.
Website analytics
This website (peblapp.com) uses basic, privacy-respecting analytics to count page visits. No personal data is collected.
Changes
If any of the above changes, this page is updated and the effective date below moves. For material changes, like adding a new third party or a new collection category, we tell you inside the app before the change takes effect.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or want to exercise a right? Email legal@peblapp.com.
Effective date: May 7, 2026.