Music Bar is a small Mac menu bar app. It runs entirely on your Mac, talks directly to Apple's servers using your Apple Music credentials, and sends nothing back to us. There is no “us” on the other end: no backend, no analytics, no accounts. This page explains in more detail.
When you authorize Music Bar with Apple Music, access is granted through Apple's MusicKit framework. MusicKit handles the credential on the system side, so Music Bar never sees, stores, or manages a raw user token. Requests to api.music.apple.com go directly from your Mac, brokered by MusicKit.
What Music Bar itself writes to disk lives inside the app's sandboxed Application Support directory and is removed when you delete the app:
UserDefaults.Music Bar makes HTTPS requests to one place: api.music.apple.com. MusicKit attaches the necessary tokens automatically. No developer key is embedded in the app, and none of your credentials pass through any server we run. What Apple does with that traffic is governed by Apple's privacy policy.
There is no Music Bar server. No API, no logging endpoint, no crash reporter. The app doesn't phone home to check for updates either.
This website is static HTML. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads no third-party scripts other than one Google Fonts request for the Instrument Serif typeface.
Music Bar is a Mac app for an Apple Music subscriber. It collects no data and is not directed at children. Apple Music itself has its own policies about who may sign up.
If anything material changes (say, a future version adds optional crash reporting), we'll update this page, tick over the revision number at the top. There is no mailing list to spam, because there is no mailing list.
Email support@xemc.dev. The GitHub repo also accepts issues, which is often faster.