Last updated: 2 September 2026
DiskSenseAI is a macOS folder analyser published by TraLand.com.
This policy describes what the app does with your information. It is short because the app does very little: it reads a folder you choose, shows you what is in it, and keeps nothing beyond your Mac.
DiskSenseAI collects no data about you, and cannot send anything anywhere.
The app is not merely written without networking code. It ships without the network entitlement, so macOS App Sandbox blocks it from opening a network connection at all. There is no server to talk to, no account to create, and no analytics or crash reporting of any kind.
DiskSenseAI runs inside Apple’s App Sandbox with three capabilities, and no others:
| Capability | What it allows |
|---|---|
| App Sandbox | Confines the app to its own container |
| User-selected files, read only | Read a folder you explicitly choose |
| App-scope bookmarks | Remember a folder so it can appear under Recent Folders |
The app has no network access, no Full Disk Access, no camera, microphone, location, contacts or calendar access, and no ability to control other applications.
It can only read a folder you have selected yourself through the standard macOS open panel. It never requests broader access, and it cannot read anything outside the folders you have chosen.
The app holds read-only access to your files and has no delete function for them. It can show you a file in Finder; it cannot modify or remove one. The only thing it ever deletes is its own temporary scan database, described below, inside its own container.
When you scan a folder, DiskSenseAI reads file and directory metadata — names, sizes, creation and modification dates, and file types — and, for candidate duplicate files only, the file contents, in order to compute a checksum.
All of this happens on your Mac. None of it is transmitted, because the app has no means of transmitting it.
File contents are read but never stored. Duplicate detection streams a file through a SHA-256 checksum and keeps only the resulting hash for comparison. The contents themselves are never written anywhere.
Two things, both inside the app’s own sandbox container, and nothing else:
1. A temporary scan database. Stored in the container’s Caches directory. It holds the metadata described above for the folder you scanned, so the app can sort and page through results without holding everything in memory. It is excluded from backups, replaced when you start a new scan, and removed when its session ends. It is not a permanent record of your files.
2. Your recent folders. Stored in the container’s Application Support directory as a small file containing a display name, the date you last used it, and a macOS security-scoped bookmark — the token that lets the app reopen that folder with your permission. If a folder becomes unavailable — an external drive unplugged, a network volume disconnected — the entry is kept and marked unavailable rather than deleted, because such folders usually come back. You can remove any entry yourself at any time.
Both live under:
~/Library/Containers/com.traland.DiskSenseAI/Data/
Deleting the app removes them.
DiskSenseAI can produce a written summary of a scan using Apple’s on-device Foundation Models, available on Macs that support Apple Intelligence.
Your files are not sent anywhere for this, and cannot be. The model runs locally, provided by macOS, and the app has no network access regardless.
The model is also given far less than you might expect. Every number in the report — every size, count, date and percentage — is computed by the app itself. The model receives a small, bounded summary of those already-computed figures and chooses which pre-written sentences to use and in what order. It does not receive your file contents, and it cannot produce a figure, filename or date of its own; its output is checked against the app’s own facts before anything is shown to you.
The AI report is optional. The full analysis works without it, and if Apple Intelligence is unavailable the report is still complete.
As Apple requires, the app declares in its privacy manifest that it uses file-timestamp APIs, for two reasons: to read timestamps of files you granted access to through the open panel, and to display those timestamps to you.
The manifest declares no collected data types and no tracking, because there are none.
DiskSenseAI collects no data from anyone, including children. It is a utility with no accounts, no content sharing and no communication features.
If this policy changes, the date at the top will change with it. Because the app collects nothing, any future change would be a reduction in what it accesses, not an expansion — and an expansion would require a new app version, reviewed by Apple, with new entitlements you could inspect.
Questions about this policy: support@traland.com, or the contact form on this website.
You do not have to take our word for it. Every claim above is checkable on your own machine:
# List every entitlement the app actually ships with codesign -d --entitlements :- /Applications/DiskSenseAI.app # Read the privacy manifest plutil -p /Applications/DiskSenseAI.app/Contents/Resources/PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy
The absence of com.apple.security.network.client in that output is what makes the
“cannot send anything anywhere” claim structural rather than a promise.