Privacy: what Lirnyk sends, and when

Text goes only to the AI you choose. Nothing is stored by Lirnyk. Here is exactly what leaves your Mac, and when.

When you press a shortcut

Lirnyk sends two things: the text you selected, and the prompt of the profile you used. Nothing is sent at any other time. It does not read text you have not selected, and it keeps no history of your rewrites.

With your own key

The request goes straight from your Mac to the provider you picked: OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini. There is no Lirnyk server in between. That provider’s privacy policy covers what it does with the text.

Your API keys are stored in the macOS Keychain and are sent only to their own provider.

Requests to OpenRouter include the header HTTP-Referer: https://lirnyk.app, so OpenRouter can list Lirnyk as the app that made them. It contains no information about you.

With Ollama

The request goes to the Ollama server address in Settings, which is your own Mac by default. Your text does not leave the computer. If you point Lirnyk at Ollama on another machine, the text goes to that machine and nowhere else.

Your clipboard

To read the selection and paste the rewrite, Lirnyk uses the clipboard. It saves what was on the clipboard first and puts it back afterwards. The clipboard contents are not sent anywhere.

Update check

Lirnyk checks for a newer version shortly after launch and then once a day. You can turn this off in Settings → About.

The automatic check asks lirnyk.app and sends only the Lirnyk version and the macOS major version, for example “0.3.0” and “15”. We count these checks per day to know roughly how many copies are in use. We count these checks, nothing else: no user ID, no cookies, and IP addresses are not stored. Turning off the update check also stops the counting. If lirnyk.app does not answer, Lirnyk asks GitHub directly.

Check for Updates in Settings asks GitHub directly and is not counted. GitHub sees that request the way it sees any web visit. Versions before 0.3.0 ask GitHub only.

This website

This site counts page views, downloads and copies of the Homebrew command with Umami, running on our own server. It records the page, the site that linked to it, and your browser, operating system, device type and country. It sets no cookies, stores no IP addresses and does not follow you across sites.

Questions

The full source is on GitHub, so you can check all of this yourself. Questions go to metaruntech@gmail.com.

Last updated October 28, 2026.