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Privacy, plainly.
Gloom connects your Mac directly to your GitLab server.
Effective November 13, 2026. Gloom is developed and published by Jesse Estevez. This notice covers the Gloom app and getgloom.dev.
The short version
Gloom has no developer-operated backend, advertising, tracking, or third-party analytics SDKs. The Mac App Store app stores your GitLab token in macOS Keychain. Your settings and cached pipeline snapshot stay on your Mac.
What Gloom reads
Gloom sends your personal access token to the HTTPS GitLab server you configure to authenticate read-only requests. It reads account access, project names, pipeline and branch details, stage and job information, statuses, timestamps, and links so it can display your pipelines. Your GitLab provider or administrator handles those requests under its own policies. Network providers can observe connection metadata.
When available, Gloom also reads the token’s permission details so it can explain when the token has more access than it needs.
Job logs and information you share
Gloom retrieves job logs when you use a log action. Logs may contain confidential build information. Copying logs puts them on the macOS clipboard, where other apps and system clipboard features may access them. Terminal output may be retained by your terminal, shell, or a tool you send it to.
Gloom does not automatically send your token, logs, or pipeline snapshots to its developer. If you choose to send a support report, the information you include reaches the support recipient. Remove credentials and private project information first. Support messages are received by Jesse Estevez and used to respond to your request and investigate reported problems. Messages and attachments may remain in the support mailbox and its backups. Contact support to request access, correction, or deletion of information you have sent.
Storage on your Mac
Gloom associates the Keychain token with your chosen GitLab server. Settings and cached pipeline data persist between launches. The snapshot can include project, branch, stage and job names, identifiers, statuses, timestamps, and links.
The app shares the snapshot and server setting with its widgets and bundled command-line tool through a local App Group. The bundled command-line tool can read the shared Keychain credential when you request authenticated logs.
Keychain items and some local app data may remain after uninstalling Gloom. Backups can retain local data under your Mac’s backup settings.
Your controls
Pause monitoring or quit Gloom to stop automatic pipeline refreshes. A connection test or a command-line log request you initiate may still contact GitLab. Revoke the token in GitLab to stop future authenticated access; replacing it in Gloom does not revoke the old token. After revoking it, you can remove Gloom’s credential through macOS Keychain management. There is currently no one-click erase-all-data control in Gloom.
Widget Private display hides identifying text and disables pipeline links. It does not delete the shared snapshot. Remove a widget to stop it displaying data. macOS manages local-network permission and launch-at-login approval; launch at login is optional.
This website
This site contains no analytics scripts, third-party fonts, advertising, or signup form. Its interactive examples use fictional projects and do not contact GitLab, read your pipelines, or save your choices in cookies or browser storage.
The public site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes normal web request information, including IP addresses and browser metadata, to deliver and protect the site. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for its handling of that information. Gloom does not add visitor analytics to this site.
Apple and GitLab
Apple handles App Store distribution, purchases, and any diagnostics you choose to share with Apple. Apple may make permitted diagnostics available to the developer. GitLab and your administrator control server-side retention. Gloom cannot erase GitLab records, clipboard history held by another service, Terminal output, or backups.
Questions and updates
This notice will be updated when Gloom’s data practices change. The public policy and App Store privacy disclosures must describe the released app and website.