Glea

Privacy

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Last updated October 4, 2026

This page covers the Glea app for macOS, the Glea Clipper browser extensions for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, and this website. Glea is made by Mathieu Jouhet (CSS labs).

The Glea app

What stays on your Mac

Your journal, notes and captured images are plain files in ~/Documents/Glea, or the folder you pick. Your browsing history, open tabs, reading time for the daily summary (kept 30 days), settings and the browser profile (cookies, site data, extensions) are stored in your user Library. None of it is sent to us, and we have no copy. Incognito windows keep nothing once they close.

What reaches the network

Glea is a web browser: pages you visit, and the services they use, receive what any browser sends them. Beyond that, Glea makes only these requests:

• Searches and suggestions. Searches, and what you type in the omnibox for suggestions, go only to the search engine you chose: Google, DuckDuckGo, Kagi or Bing. Incognito windows get no suggestions, so nothing is sent from them as you type.
• Embeds and media in notes. A YouTube video, a post or a remote image in a note is loaded from the service that hosts it, as it would be on a web page. Collected images are downloaded once into your notes folder.
• Site icons, fetched from the sites themselves.
• Updates. Every few hours Glea checks glea.app/appcast.xml for a new version, and downloads it from GitHub when there is one. The request carries Glea’s version number and nothing about you; no system profile is sent.

What we don’t do

There are no analytics, crash reporters, telemetry or advertising identifiers in Glea, and no account to sign in to.

Glea Clipper (browser extensions)

Glea Clipper brings Glea’s point and shoot, and collecting selections, articles, images and links, to other browsers.

• It reads a page only when you collect from it: holding Option and clicking or dragging, or using its button, menu or shortcut. Its point-and-shoot script is present in pages so that it is ready when you hold Option, but it reads and sends nothing until you capture something.
• What you collect goes only to the Glea app on your Mac, through a glea:// link that your browser hands to Glea. Very long captures pass through your clipboard instead. A dragged area is captured as a screenshot of the visible page, at that moment only.
• It sends nothing to any server, ours or anyone else’s, and contains no analytics.
• It stores only your preferences (where captures go, and whether to open Glea) in your browser’s extension storage.

Its permissions are for these things only: access to pages, so point and shoot can work in them; reading a page’s selection or main text when you collect it; the context menu; storage for your preferences; and the clipboard for long captures. Glea Clipper’s use of data complies with the Chrome Web Store User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements: data is used only to provide the capture feature, never sold, never used for advertising, and never transferred to third parties.

This website

• Analytics. glea.app uses Simple Analytics, which records page views and a few events (such as a download button clicked, or the demo on the page tried) without cookies, without storing IP addresses, and without identifying or following you.
• Email sign-up. If you leave your address to hear about new betas, it is stored in a Google Form. We use it only to write about Glea, and will delete it whenever you ask.
• Hosting and downloads. The site is hosted by Netlify, and downloads are served by GitHub. Both keep the usual server logs, such as IP addresses, under their own policies. Fonts are served by Google Fonts.

Your choices

Everything Glea keeps is in folders on your Mac that you can read, move or delete. Removing Glea Clipper from your browser removes its preferences. To have your email address deleted, or for any question about this policy, open an issue on GitHub.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published here, with its date above.