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BarBeatCue, BarBeatCue Satellite and BarBeatCue Display · last updated 13 October 2026

BarBeatCue (the Mac app), BarBeatCue Satellite (the iPad and iPhone app) and BarBeatCue Display (the Apple TV app) are made by Ron Klein. The practices below are the same for all three apps. They are tools for a band on stage. They do not have accounts, they do not show ads, and they do not track you.

What the apps collect

Nothing. None of the apps collects personal data, usage statistics or analytics, and none contains any third-party analytics or advertising code. Your setlists, songs, audio, scores and annotations stay in the files on your own Mac (and the copies your own iPads and iPhones keep).

What leaves your device, and only when

The apps connect to the internet only for these, each of which you start or can switch off:

• Update checks (Mac). Once a day, and when you choose Check for Updates…, BarBeatCue asks updates.barbeatcue.live whether a newer version exists. The request carries the app's name and version (in the standard web "User-Agent" line) and nothing else — no identifier of you or your Mac. Switch the daily check off in Settings › General. The server is hosted by Cloudflare, whose standard logs record the IP address of each request for a limited time.
• Lyrics search (Mac). Song ▸ Lanes ▸ Find Lyrics Online… sends the song title and artist you typed to LRCLIB (lrclib.net), a free lyrics database, and nothing else.
• License and trial (Mac). The trial and a license activation send our licensing provider, Moonbase (moonbase.sh), the Mac's name, an identifier made from its hardware (a one-way hash: the hardware id itself never leaves the Mac), the app's version and "Mac" — to count the Macs a license is used on. About once a day, when the Mac is online and the music is not playing, the app asks Moonbase whether the license still counts. A purchase is handled by Moonbase as the merchant; we receive your name and email address from it to deliver and support the license.
• Send Feedback (Mac). Help ▸ Send Feedback… opens a new email in your mail app, with your app version, macOS version, Mac model, audio device, the plug-ins of the open song and the app's diagnostics log (and the latest crash report, if there is one) attached. Nothing is sent until you press Send — you can read and edit everything first. We use what you send only to answer you and to fix the problem.

On your local network

The Mac app and the iPad, iPhone and Apple TV apps talk to each other over your local Wi-Fi (Bonjour and OSC) to show the song's position, charts and scores on the screens (the Apple TV fetches no score). This traffic stays on your local network. A remote-control passphrase, if you set one, never travels in clear.

Permissions the apps ask for

• Documents folder (Mac): to open and save your shows.
• Microphone (Mac): only to read incoming timecode (LTC) from an input of your audio interface when you switch on Sync In ▸ LTC. Nothing is recorded or sent.
• Local network (Mac, iPad, iPhone and Apple TV): to find and talk to each other.

This website

barbeatcue.live is served by Cloudflare, whose standard logs record the IP address of each request for a limited time. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics. Its three typefaces (Newsreader, Source Sans 3 and IBM Plex Mono) are files on the site itself, so no page asks anyone else for a font, a script or a picture. The contact form sends what you type to support@barbeatcue.live and nowhere else, and uses Cloudflare Turnstile to keep bots out.

Children

The apps are not directed at children and collect no data from anyone.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date. Questions: support@barbeatcue.live.