Privacy Policy
Last updated 25 July 2026
WhatTime is a menubar timezone converter that runs entirely on your Mac. It has no account, no server, and no analytics. This page sets out what that means in detail, including the two things that involve Apple rather than us.
The short version: we collect nothing. WhatTime does not ask you to sign in, does not make network requests, and has no analytics or crash reporting in it. Your pinned zones and settings stay on your Mac. Apple handles the purchase and gives us anonymous sales and usage reports we cannot tie to you.
Who we are
WhatTime is published by Jerome Coloma (sole trader). Questions about privacy go to whattimeapp@tallbottech.com.au.
What we collect
Nothing. There is no account to create, no email address to give us, and no server for the app to talk to. We do not receive your queries, your pinned zones, your settings, or any record that you opened the app.
What stays on your Mac
WhatTime saves the things it needs to remember between launches in the standard macOS preferences store for the app, inside your user account:
- The zones you have pinned and the order you put them in.
- Your display preferences, such as 12 or 24 hour time.
These never leave the machine. If you have iCloud backup enabled for your Mac, they are included in that backup the same way every other app's preferences are, under Apple's terms rather than ours. Removing the app removes them.
The queries you type or dictate are not saved as history. They exist for as long as the popover is open and are gone when it closes.
No network
WhatTime makes no network requests at all. It does not check for updates, fetch time, load remote content, or report anything. Timezone rules, including daylight saving transitions and their historical and future dates, ship inside the app and are updated when you update the app through the App Store. That is why it works on a plane.
You do not have to take our word for it. Cut the machine off the network and WhatTime behaves identically, or point a network monitor such as Little Snitch at it and watch nothing happen.
No tracking
- No analytics or usage measurement of any kind.
- No crash or diagnostic reporting service.
- No advertising, no advertising identifier, no third-party SDKs.
- No device identifiers, no location, no contacts, no calendar.
- No AI or language model. Queries are read by fixed rules running on your Mac and are not sent anywhere for interpretation.
There is no switched-off telemetry slot waiting to be turned on later. If any of this ever changes, this page will be updated before the change ships, and the App Store listing's privacy details will change with it.
Dictation
If you use the microphone to speak a query, WhatTime asks macOS for microphone and speech-recognition permission and then uses the speech recognition built into macOS to turn what you said into text. WhatTime never records, stores, or transmits audio, and it never receives the audio itself, only the text macOS returns.
Whether that recognition happens entirely on your Mac or is sent to Apple depends on your macOS version, your language, and your settings under System Settings. On a modern Mac with a downloaded language, it is on-device. Either way that step belongs to Apple and is covered by Apple's privacy policy, not ours. You can check and change it in System Settings, and you can decline microphone access entirely: typing does exactly the same thing.
Apple and the App Store
WhatTime is sold only through the Mac App Store. Apple handles the purchase, the payment, and the download. We never see your name, your email address, or your payment details; Apple's handling of them is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Apple gives developers aggregate reports about their apps: units sold, proceeds, territories, device and macOS breakdowns, and, for customers who have opted in to share analytics with developers, anonymous usage and crash statistics. This is Apple's reporting about the listing, not something WhatTime sends. It is aggregated, it is anonymous, and we cannot connect any of it to a person. You can turn the analytics sharing part off in System Settings under Privacy and Security, Analytics and Improvements.
If you write an App Store review, that review is public and carries whatever name Apple shows against it. That is Apple's system, and we have no control over it.
Children
WhatTime is a general-purpose utility. It is not directed at children, and since it collects no information at all, it collects none from them either.
Your rights
Rights of access, correction, and erasure apply to personal information a company holds. We hold none, so there is nothing to give you, correct, or delete. You are welcome to write to whattimeapp@tallbottech.com.au and ask us to confirm that, and we will respond within 30 days. Anything Apple holds about your purchase is requested from Apple. If you are unhappy with how we handle a request, you can raise it with the privacy regulator in your country.
Changes to this policy
If WhatTime changes in a way that affects this page, the page is updated and the date at the top is revised. Material changes are published here before they take effect.