Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 9, 2026
Voltti is an app for Mac and Windows that tracks how you spend your time on your own computer, automatically, in the background. This page explains exactly what that means for your data: what stays on your computer, what we send to our servers, and what we never touch.
What Voltti tracks on your computer
While Voltti is running, it records which app is in the foreground and its window title, and, for browsers, the address of the active tab. It uses that to measure how much time you spend in each app and on each website, and to decide on its own whether a website counts as work (social media and streaming, for example, don't). This activity data is stored in a local database on your computer and is never uploaded, except for the optional weekly report described below.
To show a website's icon next to its time, Voltti downloads that icon directly from the website itself, once, and keeps it on your computer. That site sees the request the same way it would if you visited it. We don't use a third-party icon service, so no list of the sites you visit reaches us or anyone else.
If you add a role in Settings, it stays on your computer and only appears on the Daily Report images you choose to download. A profile photo also appears on those images, and if you're on the leaderboard it's shared there too (see below).
What we collect if you create an account
Creating a Voltti account (by email and password, or by signing in with Google) sends the following to our backend, run on Supabase:
- Email address: used to identify your account and for transactional email (sign-in confirmation, receipts).
- Display name: whatever you set in Settings, shown only to you and, if you opt into the leaderboard, to other leaderboard participants.
- Subscription status: whether you're on Pro, which payment provider you subscribed through, and your renewal date, so the app knows which features to unlock.
If you sign in with Google, Google shares your email address and basic profile name with us to create the account. We never receive your Google password, and we don't request access to your Gmail, Drive, or any other Google data beyond identifying who you are.
The leaderboard and friends (fully optional)
The leaderboard is off by default. If you turn it on, our leaderboard server receives:
- Your total tracked time for the current day, week, month, and year, plus each day's total for the last 35 days (so a past day, like yesterday, can still be ranked)
- The display name from your Profile, and the email address of your Voltti account (used only to connect friend invites sent to that address to you; it's never shown to anyone)
- Your streak (how many days in a row you tracked 4 hours or more), shown next to your name unless you turn off "Show streak"
- Your 5 most used apps and the time on each, for today, this week, this month and this year. These power the per-app boards (who leads on Figma, for example) and, if you turn on "Top apps", the top apps your friends can see. Turn off both "Per-app boards" and "Top apps" in Settings and they're no longer sent, and the ones already sent are deleted.
- Your profile photo, as a small image (160 pixels), shown next to your name to other players
On voltti.app: this week's top 10 on the leaderboard appear on our homepage with their display name, profile photo and hours. Joining the leaderboard includes this; leave the leaderboard and you're removed from it.
The social features send what you create with them:
- Friends: who you add, accept, remove or block, and any email address you type to invite someone. We keep that email only to match it when that person signs up; we don't email them.
- Notes: the text of a note you post, shown next to your name for 24 hours.
- Nudges: who you nudged and when.
- Battles: who you challenge, the stakes you type, and your tracked time during each battle (or your time in one app, for an app battle).
The leaderboard never receives window titles, the websites you visited or the addresses of browser tabs. App names leave your computer only as part of the top-5 list above.
The weekly report (Pro, optional)
If you're on Pro, Voltti builds your weekly report PDF on your computer every Sunday morning and sends it to our server only so it can be emailed to you. The PDF contains your week's summary, including the names of the apps and websites you used and the time spent on each. It is passed straight to our email provider as an attachment and is not stored on our servers. You can turn it off any time in Settings.
AI standups (Pro, optional)
If you ask Voltti to write your standup, it shows you exactly what will be sent first: yesterday's app names with the time spent in each, your total and deep work time, your longest focus run and your role, if you set one. Window titles and website addresses are never sent. Our server passes these numbers to Anthropic's Claude model to write the update and sends the text back to you; neither the numbers nor the text are stored. We keep only a count of how many standups you made each day, to limit it to 10.
Deep work certificates (Pro, optional)
When you make a deep work certificate, Voltti sends that month's totals (tracked and deep work time, weekdays at 4 hours or more, your daily average, best day, longest focus run and your top four apps with their hours) to our server, which keeps a copy so anyone with the certificate's link or QR code can check it at voltti.app/v/ followed by its code.
App updates and downloads
On Mac, Voltti checks voltti.app for new versions a few times a day. Like any web request, this shows our server your IP address and the app's version. On Windows, if you installed Voltti from the Microsoft Store, the Store handles updates. When you download Voltti from our website, we count the download along with your country and which button you used. We don't store your IP address with it.
Visiting voltti.app
To see how people find the website, voltti.app uses Umami, a privacy-focused analytics tool we run ourselves. It counts page views, the site that referred you, and your browser, device type and country. It uses no cookies, doesn't track you across other websites, and doesn't store your IP address.
Payments
Voltti Pro subscriptions are processed by Paystack or Polar, depending on your region. Neither Voltti nor our servers ever see or store your card number, bank details, or other payment credentials, that information goes directly to whichever processor handles your checkout. We only receive a confirmation that a payment succeeded or failed, and use that to turn your Pro access on or off.
Who we share data with
| Service | What it's used for |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Account storage and authentication |
| Optional "Sign in with Google" | |
| Paystack / Polar | Subscription billing |
| Anthropic | Writes AI standups (Pro, only when you ask); nothing is stored |
| Resend | Transactional email (confirmations, receipts) and the Pro weekly report |
| Vercel | Hosts voltti.app, app updates, download counts and our email functions |
| Railway | Hosts the opt-in leaderboard's server |
| Umami (self-hosted) | Cookie-free visit counts for voltti.app |
We don't sell your data to anyone, and we don't use it for advertising.
Your choices
- Tracking works fully offline and never needs an account. Viewing your tracked time in the app requires signing in, and everything beyond that (leaderboard, weekly report, Pro subscription) is opt-in.
- You can leave the leaderboard at any time by toggling it off in Settings; your past leaderboard entries are removed.
- You can delete your account and its data by contacting us at the email below.
Children's privacy
Voltti isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from anyone under that age.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your data: support@voltti.app.