Shelf

What Shelf Does

Shelf is a macOS menu-bar utility that holds files, images, and text you're moving between places — a temporary staging area that clears itself. Fourteener Labs, LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) does not operate a server for Shelf, does not receive anything you place on the shelf, and cannot see your shelf's contents.

Information Stored on Your Mac

When you add something to the shelf — by dragging it onto the menu-bar icon, pressing the shelf hotkey, or having a screenshot captured automatically — Shelf copies that item into a folder on your Mac at ~/Library/Application Support/Shelf/. It keeps one real file per item plus a small manifest.json that records each item's name, type, and the time it was added. Your settings (retention length and the auto-shelf toggle) are stored in standard macOS preferences. All of this stays on your Mac.

The Clipboard and Screenshots

To do its job, Shelf reads two local sources on your Mac. When you use the shelf hotkey, it reads the current clipboard so it can copy that item onto the shelf. When automatic capture is enabled, Shelf watches your clipboard for new images and watches your configured screenshot folder for new screenshot files, and copies or moves those onto the shelf. These reads happen entirely on your Mac. Shelf does not upload, transmit, or share the clipboard, screenshots, or any shelved item. You can also name apps to ignore: while one of them is frontmost, Shelf makes no automatic capture at all.

Automatic Deletion

Unless you pin an item, Shelf deletes it from your Mac after your chosen retention window (3 or 7 days). Deletion happens locally and removes the item's file and its manifest entry. Because Shelf is a temporary staging area, do not rely on it for long-term storage; keep anything you want to retain elsewhere or pin it.

Information We Do Not Collect

Shelf contains no Fourteener Labs analytics, advertising, crash-reporting, or tracking SDK, and makes no network requests. We do not receive or sell your:

• files, images, text, screenshots, or anything else you place on the shelf;
• clipboard contents or screenshot folder;
• device identifiers, location, contacts, or browsing activity; or
• name, email address, or any account information — Shelf has no account.

No Network Use

Shelf does not connect to the internet. It has no sign-in, no cloud sync, and no backend service. Everything it does happens locally on your Mac.

Purchases

Shelf offers a one-time unlock as an in-app purchase processed by Apple. Apple provides Shelf only the StoreKit transaction and entitlement information needed to unlock the app; we do not receive your payment-card information. The free-trial timer is stored locally on your Mac and is not sent to Fourteener Labs. Apple's handling of purchase data is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy.

Security

Shelf's items are ordinary files stored in your user Library folder, protected by your macOS user account. No method of local storage is completely secure, and anyone with access to your unlocked Mac can open those files. Keep your Mac secure, and remove sensitive items from the shelf when you're done with them.

Children's Privacy

Shelf is not directed to children under 13, and Fourteener Labs does not knowingly collect personal information from children through the app.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as Shelf changes. The current version will remain posted here with its effective date.

Contact

Questions about Shelf or this policy can be sent to support@fourteenerlabs.com.