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Privacy

DeckCrate is built to be a privacy-respecting file manager. It collects zero telemetry — not for analytics, not for crash reporting, not even for “technical reasons” like measuring which features get used. There is no tracking to turn off because there was never any to begin with.

The promise

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  • No analytics. DeckCrate never records what you do, which folders you open, or which features you use.
  • No crash or error reporting. Nothing is sent anywhere when something goes wrong. Diagnostics stay on your machine.
  • No phone-home. The app does not contact any DeckCrate server, because there isn’t one. It has no automatic update check that pings a remote service.
  • No account, no sign-in. There’s nothing to log into and no profile behind the app.
  • No ads, no third-party trackers, no unique device IDs.

There is no settings toggle for “share usage data” — the feature simply doesn’t exist.

Your data stays on your machine

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Everything DeckCrate remembers — your preferences, bookmarks, recent items, and open tabs — is stored as plain files in your operating system’s standard app-config directory. It never leaves your computer. You can read, back up, or delete those files yourself.

The only network activity is what you start

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DeckCrate makes network connections only when you explicitly ask it to, and only to destinations you choose:

  • Network shares you mount (for example an SMB server on your LAN) are handled by the operating system’s own mount tools, talking to the server you named — never to us.
  • Opening a file or link in another app hands off to that app; DeckCrate itself isn’t making the request.

Nothing in that list is telemetry — it’s you using your own files and your own servers.

Built on a telemetry-free stack

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The shipped application bundles no analytics or telemetry SDK of any kind. DeckCrate is written in Flutter/Dart, and every library it ships with does local work only — file listing and archiving, gamepad input, window management, terminal emulation, drag-and-drop, and internationalization. None of them report usage back to anyone.