Iconscape Privacy Policy

Effective November 13, 2026

Iconscape is a Mac app made by Ahdaf Zaman. It's built to work entirely on your Mac. There are no accounts, no analytics and no tracking.

What Iconscape reads on your Mac

To grow the landscape around your desktop icons, Iconscape asks Finder for:

• the positions of the icons on your desktop
• your desktop's icon size, label size and label position
• when Stacks are on, the kind of each grouped file (for example "Folder" or "PNG image"), to count how many stacks are showing

Iconscape never reads the names or contents of your files. This information stays on your Mac and is used only to draw the scene. macOS asks for your permission ("control Finder") before Iconscape can read any of it.

What Iconscape stores on your Mac

• Settings: your theme, lighting and other preferences, in the app's standard preferences file. If you use the Map theme, this includes the town you typed and its map coordinates.
• Lock-screen images: if you turn on Show on lock screen, snapshots of your scene are saved in ~/Library/Application Support/Iconscape/Wallpapers and set as your desktop wallpaper.
• Theme previews: small preview images, cached in ~/Library/Caches/Iconscape.
• Purchases: license keys you activate, stored in your Mac's Keychain.

Uninstalling Iconscape and deleting these folders removes everything it stored.

When Iconscape uses the internet

Iconscape goes online for only three things:

• License keys. When you activate one, Iconscape sends the key and an anonymous, random install label (not your Mac's name) to Lemon Squeezy's license service to confirm the purchase. About once a week, it sends just the saved key(s) to the same service to check they haven't been refunded or disabled.
• Updates. About once a day, Iconscape downloads a small update list from the Iconscape website (iconscape.app, hosted by GitHub Pages) to see whether a newer version exists. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address and the app's version to GitHub. Nothing about you or your Mac is sent. You can turn this off in Settings, and use Check for Updates… in the menu instead.
• Map theme town lookup. When you type a town in the Map theme's settings and press Show on Map, Iconscape sends just that name to Apple's location service (the one built into macOS) to find where it is. Apple's privacy policy covers that request. Iconscape never asks for your Mac's location, and the map itself is drawn from data bundled with the app, so showing it sends nothing.

Iconscape doesn't connect to the internet otherwise.

Payments

Purchases are processed by Lemon Squeezy, which acts as the merchant of record. They handle your payment details, email address and receipts under their own privacy policy. Iconscape and its developer never see your card details.

Children

Iconscape doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on the Iconscape website with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions? Email support@iconscape.app.