Last updated: 24 September 2026
Turfs is a desktop organizer for macOS. It groups your files into resizable, customizable containers on your desktop, backed by folders, Finder tags, or hand-picked collections. Your privacy is fundamental to how it works.
All turf configuration — positions, sizes, colors, names, and which files belong to which turf — is stored locally on your Mac. References to files are paths only; Turfs does not copy file contents into its own storage. Your files stay where you put them, owned and controlled by you.
Turfs does not currently sync between devices. Your configuration lives on the Mac it was created on.
Turfs makes four kinds of outbound network requests, all limited and purposeful:
1. Update checks. Turfs periodically checks for new versions by requesting an update feed file from GitHub. The request includes your app version, macOS version, and system architecture, so Turfs can determine which update applies to your Mac. No identifying information is sent.
2. A first-run count, once. The first time a copy of Turfs is opened, it fetches a small file from GitHub so we can count how many people try the app. Nothing about you or your Mac is sent; GitHub simply counts the fetch. Turfs tells you this on the first page of its welcome tour before it happens.
3. License validation. When you activate or use a paid license, Turfs contacts the Bloo Software fulfillment endpoint to verify the license. This request sends your license key and a hashed device identifier so the same key cannot be reused indefinitely across unrelated machines. No file data, file names, or usage information is transmitted.
4. Crash reports, only if you choose. If Turfs quits unexpectedly, the next time you open it, it asks whether to send the crash report macOS saved. Nothing is sent unless you click Send Report. The report describes what Turfs was doing when it quit, your Mac's model and macOS version, and an anonymous identifier macOS gives to crash reports from your Mac. It does not include your files. It goes to the Bloo Software fulfillment endpoint, which emails it to us through Resend, along with any note you add. A short record of each report (Turfs and macOS versions, the type of error, and your note) is kept so the same report isn't handled twice.
That is the complete list of outbound connections Turfs initiates.
Turfs is sold directly by Bloo Software. Payments are processed by Stripe; Bloo Software never sees or stores your card details. After purchase, your license key is delivered to your email via Resend, our transactional email provider. Stripe and Resend each have their own privacy policies governing how they handle payment and email data:
Turfs includes a 10-day free trial. Trial state is stored locally on your Mac. No personal data is transmitted during the trial period.
If a future version of Turfs begins to collect any data — for example, anonymised usage statistics — this policy will be updated and the change will be clearly communicated in the app before any data is collected.
Questions? hey@bloosoftware.com
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