Wifilicious Privacy Policy

Effective date: 07 / 05 / 2026

Summary

Wifilicious reads information about the Wi‑Fi network your Mac is currently connected to, and displays it. Nothing about that data leaves the Mac. There is no account to create, and no analytics to opt out of. The only outbound traffic the app originates is the speed test.

What the app reads

To display your connection, Wifilicious reads data that macOS exposes about the active Wi‑Fi interface:

• Network identifiers: SSID, BSSID, channel, band, Wi‑Fi standard, security type
• Link quality: signal strength (RSSI), noise floor, SNR, link rate, TX power
• Addressing: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses assigned to your Mac, gateway, DNS, MAC address, interface name, country code
• Live throughput: bytes sent and received on the interface

Nothing is read about other devices on your network, other networks, browsing activity, or any content passing over the connection.

Where this data lives

All readings stay on your Mac, inside the app’s sandboxed container. Trend history (signal, noise, link rate, throughput, channel, connection events) is written to a local database so the Trends tab can show patterns over time. This database is deleted when you uninstall the app.

Wifilicious has no servers of its own. Nothing is synced, backed up, or transmitted to the developer or any third party.

Speed tests

The Speed tab uses Cloudflare’s public speed‑test endpoints (speed.cloudflare.com) to download roughly 9 MB and upload roughly 5 MB per test. This is the only outbound traffic the app originates. No personal data is included in the request — just the bytes needed to measure bandwidth and latency. Cloudflare’s privacy policy governs that traffic on their end; see cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Apple Intelligence

The Ask and Insights features use Apple Intelligence to turn your live Wi‑Fi data into plain‑English answers. These require macOS 26 and an Apple‑Intelligence‑capable Mac. Processing happens entirely on‑device through Apple’s Foundation Models framework. Conversations, prompts, and responses do not leave your Mac, are not sent to the developer, and are not sent to any third‑party AI service.

Notifications

If you grant notification permission, Wifilicious can alert you to connection changes — going online, going offline, connecting to a different network, or signal dropping below a threshold. Notifications are generated and delivered locally by macOS. They contain only the details shown on screen, and are not sent anywhere else.

Location access

macOS requires Location Services permission before any app can read Wi‑Fi identifiers like SSID or BSSID. Wifilicious requests this permission for exactly that reason. Your location itself is not read, recorded, or displayed by the app.

Your controls

• Revoke Location or Notification permissions at any time in System Settings
• Quit the app at any time; all background activity stops
• Uninstall the app to remove its local database and all stored readings

Changes to this policy

Material changes will be reflected here with an updated effective date. Because this policy describes how the app behaves on your own Mac, any change in behavior ships with a new version of the app and is described in this document.

Contact

Questions or concerns: [email protected].