Privacy
OnCue collects nothing, sends nothing, and has no way to. This page says that in the detail a privacy policy is supposed to, and says how to check it rather than take my word for it.
What OnCue collects
Nothing. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics, no crash reporting and no usage data. OnCue doesn't know how many people use it, what they point it at, or whether it's running. I find out about bugs when someone tells me.
What it can reach
Your camera, your microphone, and the folder your recordings go to. That's the whole list, and macOS enforces it: OnCue runs in the App Sandbox with exactly those permissions and no network permission. It cannot open a connection to anything, so there is no server for a recording to reach and no place for a report to go. The front page shows the command that prints those permissions from the copy on your Mac.
The camera and microphone are used only while OnCue is watching: armed, or while the popover or preview window is open. The rest of the time they're off, and the camera light says so.
Your recordings
Recordings are ordinary video files in a folder on your Mac, your Movies folder unless you choose another. They're yours in every sense: OnCue doesn't copy them, upload them, index them or look at what's in them. The only time it deletes one is if you've set a size limit in Settings, and then it deletes only its own oldest recordings, never anything else in the folder, and says so.
If you point OnCue at a folder that syncs, iCloud Drive or Dropbox or similar, those services will copy your recordings the way they copy anything else in that folder. That's between you and them. OnCue neither knows nor cares which folder it was given.
Before version 4.0
Versions of OnCue before 4.0, which is what the Mac App Store carried for several years as 3.0.3, included an analytics library that reported basic usage to a third party. It's gone. 4.0 removed it along with the network permission that let it work, which is why the permission check above is worth running: it shows the current version can't do what the old one did.
This website
Everything above is about the app. This website is different: since 25 September 2026 it counts page views and downloads of the zip, so I can see whether anyone reads the help and how many people take each version. Each count keeps the page or version, the time, the country, which site sent you here if one did, and whether the download came through Homebrew. It keeps no IP address, sets no cookie, runs no tracking script, and stores nothing that ties one visit to another. Counts are deleted after a year.