Radiance for macOS

Privacy Policy

Last updated 14 September 2026

Radiance collects nothing. There is no networking code in the app — no analytics, no crash reporting, no accounts, no third-party SDKs. Nothing about you or your Mac is gathered, stored off your device, or transmitted anywhere, because the app contains nothing capable of sending it.

What the app can see, and what becomes of it

Your screen: Boost captures the display with ScreenCaptureKit and re-renders each frame through a brightness overlay, straight back to your display. A frame exists as a texture in memory for the length of one frame. None are written to disk, retained, or sent.
Whether a camera is in use: So the Ring Light can switch on by itself during a video call, Radiance reads a hardware property reporting whether any camera is currently running. It never opens a capture session and never receives a single video frame from your camera.
Your settings: Brightness, schedule and Ring Light preferences are stored locally in macOS UserDefaults, on your own Mac.

Protected content

When macOS marks what is on screen as protected — DRM video, for instance — Radiance suspends Boost by itself and the menu says why. Protected frames are never captured or re-rendered. An optional stricter setting also suspends Boost when a frame's protection status cannot be determined at all.

What Radiance never does

No network connection of any kind
No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or advertising
No account, sign-in, or identifier of any sort
No reading or writing of your files, photos, contacts or location
No microphone, and no audio recording
No sharing or selling of anything to anyone — there is nothing to share

The permission you are asked for

Boost needs Screen Recording, because Radiance has to see the screen it re-renders. macOS asks on first use, and you can withdraw it whenever you like in System Settings → Privacy & Security. Withdrawing it disables Boost and affects nothing else; the Ring Light does not use it.

Children

Radiance is a display utility, collects no data, and is not directed at children.

Changes to this policy

A revised policy would be posted here with a new date. As the app collects nothing, any change would be a clarification rather than a new use of your data.

Contact

Questions about this policy: info@mojavimedia.com