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Last updated 13 October 2026

Privacy policy

RTIN is built so that what it learns about you never leaves your computer. Here is exactly what it touches, and why.

  • What RTIN learns stays on your computer. Your routine, the apps you use and the text you ask about are never uploaded.
  • No ads, no tracking, no selling. The RTIN app has no analytics or crash reporting. This website counts visits anonymously, without cookies.
  • You are in control. Pause learning, block apps, or erase everything from the menu bar at any time.

Who we are

RTIN is a desktop assistant for macOS and Windows. This policy covers the RTIN app and this website. Questions go to privacy@rtinn.online.

Your account

If you choose Continue with Google, Google tells RTIN your name, email address and profile picture. That is all RTIN asks for: the sign-in requests only the openid, email and profile scopes. RTIN does not ask for offline access and keeps no Google access or refresh tokens.

Your profile is stored on your computer, encrypted with your system keychain. Signing out deletes it. You can also use RTIN without an account.

So your plan follows you, RTIN’s server checks your Google sign-in once and then keeps: your email address, your plan, and for each computer you sign in on, a random device ID, whether it is a Mac or a PC, and when it was last used. Your computer gets an RTIN sign-in token, kept encrypted in your keychain; the server stores only a scrambled (hashed) copy of it. Sessions end when you sign out, or after 180 days without use. Nothing about what RTIN learns is ever sent with it.

RTIN’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

What RTIN learns, and where it stays

To suggest your next step, RTIN notes which app is in front and when, for example “Figma, weekday mornings”. It keeps this history in a file on your computer and lets old activity fade after about two weeks. It is never sent to us or anyone else.

  • Turn learning off from the menu bar, or in setup.
  • Block an app with “Don’t learn from …”. Password managers are never learned from or read.
  • Erase everything with “Forget everything”, which deletes the history on the spot.

Help with code and messages

When you press Tab twice, RTIN can read the text you have selected, or the text field you are typing in, so it can explain code, polish a message, translate, answer a question you selected, or explain a term. On a Mac this uses the accessibility permission, which you grant and can revoke at any time; on Windows, RTIN copies your selection and puts your clipboard back straight away.

  • It reads only when you ask, and only the selected text or the focused field.
  • It never reads password fields, and never reads password managers.
  • On a Mac with Apple Intelligence, the text is processed by the AI model built into your Mac and is not sent over the internet.
  • On Windows and Macs without on-device AI, it only works if you agree to cloud help when RTIN first asks (10 a day on RTIN Free, unlimited on Pro and Max), and you need to be signed in, so the daily allowance can be counted against your account. Then the selected text or draft, the app’s name and your language are sent to RTIN’s server and from there to an AI provider that does not use it for training (Groq or Cerebras), only to produce the answer. Neither RTIN’s server nor RTIN keeps the text or the answer, and they are never logged.
  • RTIN changes your text only after you press Replace, and you can undo it.
  • If the last line of the field is an instruction to RTIN (for example “rtin make it formal”), RTIN follows it and removes that line from the field. It reads the field only when you press Tab twice, never while you type.

Circling something on screen (the lasso)

When you press Tab twice with nothing selected, or in an app RTIN can’t read, RTIN takes one picture of the screen you are on and lets you circle what you want explained. On a Mac this needs the Screen Recording permission, which you grant and can revoke at any time.

  • The picture is taken only when you ask, is kept in memory only while you circle, and is never saved to disk or sent anywhere. Only the area you circle is used.
  • On a Mac, the text in the circled area is read on your Mac (Apple’s Vision framework) and explained as described above.
  • Pictures, charts and photos (or anything on Windows) are sent to RTIN’s server only after you agree when RTIN first asks: the circled area as an image, the app’s name and any instruction you typed go to an AI provider that does not use it for training (Groq), only to produce the answer. Neither RTIN’s server nor RTIN keeps the image or the answer, and they are never logged. It needs an account and counts toward the same daily allowance (10 a day on RTIN Free).
  • RTIN may highlight the spot in the circled area that its answer is about. That marker disappears when you close the answer.

Cloud AI (Pro and Max, off by default)

If you have RTIN Pro or Max, your computer has no on-device AI (Windows PCs, Intel Macs, and Macs before macOS 26) and you turn on Cloud AI, RTIN asks RTIN’s server to check and word a suggestion, and the server asks Google’s Gemini API, or when Gemini is unavailable, a backup provider: xAI (Grok), Groq, Cerebras or OpenRouter. That request contains only the suggested action, app names, times and how often you accepted or dismissed suggestions, never the contents of your screen, files or messages. It also carries your RTIN sign-in token, so the server can check your plan. Our server doesn’t store these requests; it keeps your IP address in memory for a few minutes only to limit abuse. Suggestion checks never include screen text; help with code and messages uses the cloud only as described above, when you turn on cloud help. These providers process the requests under their own terms, and free tiers may use them to improve their models.

Permissions RTIN asks for

  • Input Monitoring (macOS): to notice when you press Tab. RTIN listens only for the Tab key and does not record what you type.
  • Accessibility (macOS): to read selected text when you ask, and to type the result back when you press Replace.
  • Screen Recording (macOS): to take the one picture you circle in when you ask. RTIN never records your screen.

This website

This site uses no cookies and no advertising or tracking scripts, and its fonts are served from this site.

To see how many people visit, we use Vercel Web Analytics. It records the page you viewed, the site that sent you, your country, and your browser, operating system and device type. It sets no cookies and does not follow you across other websites; visitors are told apart only by a hash that resets every day. We see totals, not individuals.

Our hosting provider, Vercel, may also keep standard server logs (such as IP address and time of request) for security.

Payments

RTIN Pro and Max are sold through Dodo Payments, which acts as the merchant of record: it takes your payment, handles tax and sends your receipts, under its own privacy policy. It collects your name, email, billing address and payment details. We never see your card number. Dodo tells us your email, which plan you bought, your subscription’s status and renewal date, and its customer and subscription IDs, so RTIN can turn your plan on. We keep these while you are a customer and as long as the law requires for our records afterwards.

Children

RTIN is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Your choices and rights

Because your activity history stays on your device, you can view and delete it yourself. Cancel or update a subscription from Manage subscription in RTIN’s menu. To ask about any other information we hold about you, or to have it deleted, email privacy@rtinn.online. You can remove RTIN’s access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top and, for significant changes, tell you in the app.