Your Mac, your data

Prism is a launcher, so it sees a lot: your apps, your files, what you copy and type. It keeps all of that on your Mac. There is no Prism account, and Prism collects no analytics or usage data.

What stays on your Mac

• Search history and rankings. What you open, so the results you use most rise to the top.
• Clipboard history, snippets, quicklinks, and calculator history.Stored in Prism's own folder in your Library. You can pause, clear, or turn off clipboard history at any time.
• Ask Prism conversations. Kept locally so you can pick them up again, and removed with Clear All AI History.
• Credentials. Sign-ins and API keys for AI providers are stored in your macOS Keychain.

File search uses Spotlight's index; Prism builds no index of its own.

When Prism goes online

• Updates. Prism checksdownload.prismformac.com for new versions, unless you turn automatic checks off. The check sends no personal information.
• AI. When you use Ask Prism, AI Commands, or Translate, the text you send goes directly to the provider you connected (OpenAI, xAI, OpenCode, or DeepSeek) under that provider's own privacy policy. Prism sends only what you submit; it never captures your screen, files, or clipboard for AI on its own.
• Currency rates. The calculator fetches exchange rates from backend.raycast.com when you convert currencies. It downloads the whole rate table; nothing from your calculation is sent.
• Dictation. Dictation uses macOS speech recognition unless you add a Doubao API key; then your voice streams to openspeech.bytedance.com for transcription.
• Quicklink icons. For each quicklink, Prism fetches the site's icon from that site and caches it.
• Extension Gallery. Browsing the Gallery downloads its signed index of extensions fromnatsustan.github.io, and installing one downloads its package from the address that index lists. Extensions you install run under your control and may have network access of their own.

Permissions

Prism asks for a permission such as Accessibility or Calendar only when you first use the feature that needs it. Declining one turns off that feature alone.

Removing your data

Uninstalling an extension removes its data. To remove everything, quit Prism and delete ~/Library/Application Support/Prismalong with the app, or runbrew uninstall --zap --cask prism-app.