What Kip collects
Nothing. Kip has no telemetry and no usage statistics. Your bookmarks, notes, searches and settings stay on your Mac and on the Karakeep server you connect to.
What stays on your Mac
- Your API key is kept in the macOS Keychain. It never appears in files, logs or crash reports, and it's sent only to your server.
- A copy of your library, articles and pictures is kept in Kip's own sandboxed folder, within the limits you set. Signing out can remove it.
- News, when you turn it on: sources, stories and a bounded cache of pictures and site icons.
Who Kip talks to
- Your Karakeep server, to sync, search and save. Plain HTTP is allowed only for local addresses, after you confirm it.
- Websites, only if you allow it: pictures that Karakeep didn't keep, and in News the feeds you follow, their pictures and site icons, and full articles when you ask for them.
- Google News, only if you follow it in News, to read its feeds and find the original article behind a story.
- GitHub, when you browse the suggested feeds, to read the latest catalog. Kip falls back to the copy it ships with.
- getkip.one, once a day if you allow it, to see whether a newer version of Kip exists. Only Kip’s version is sent; the update itself is downloaded from GitHub.
- Sentry, only if you turn on crash reports. A report holds the stack trace, the macOS version, the Mac model and Kip's version; addresses, names, links, paths and keys are removed before it leaves your Mac.
The website
getkip.one sets no cookies, runs no analytics and loads nothing from other sites: even its fonts are served from getkip.one. It's hosted by Cloudflare, which keeps standard request logs. Your language choice is kept in your browser only.
Open source
Kip is open source under the MIT license, so every statement here can be checked in the code.
Last updated November 10, 2026.