Afinar
Your machine, your files
Afinar has no account, collects nothing about you, and keeps everything you make as ordinary files on your own disk. Most of what follows is just describing that honestly.
There is no account.
You don’t sign up, and there’s nothing to sign in to. Buying Afinar gives you a licence file, not a profile. We don’t have a database with your name in it because there’s nowhere to put one.
Nothing is uploaded, ever.
Your scores, your recordings, your tones and your settings are files in a folder you can open from Settings. Nothing syncs, nothing backs up to us, and no recording you make ever leaves your Mac unless you export it and send it somewhere yourself.
No telemetry.
Afinar doesn’t report what you play, how often you open it, which features you use, or that you opened it at all. There’s no analytics library in the app.
When something goes wrong and you use Help → Send Feedback, it prepares a message with your app version, your macOS version and a log if one exists. You can see all of it and remove any of it, and nothing sends until you press Send.
Everything that touches the network
Short list, and none of it is required to play or record.
| Browsing | Tab sites, lesson platforms and YouTube are ordinary web browsing, and those sites see you the way they would in Safari. Your logins stay in Afinar and aren’t shared with us. |
| Updates | Afinar checks whether a newer version exists and downloads it if so. Updates are cryptographically signed, and an update that fails verification is refused rather than installed. |
| Ask | The chat on this website. Questions go to Anthropic’s API to be answered. They aren’t stored by us and aren’t linked to you. This is the website, not the app. |
| Tone3000 | With Pro, when you browse captures. That’s you talking to their service. |
| A one-time download | The first time you separate a track into stems, with Pro. After that it’s on your disk and works offline. |
What an outage can take from you
Almost nothing, and that’s by design rather than by luck.
If this website is down, the app you already have is unaffected. If the update service is down, Afinar keeps working and finds the update next time. If the chat is down, the help articles are still here and [email protected] is read by a person. If the stems download is down, songs you’ve already separated are on your disk and everything else works.
Opening a score, playing a backing you own, recording, listening back, trimming and exporting all work with the network unplugged. They always have.
The app itself
Afinar is notarized by Apple and distributed directly by us. Updates are signed with a key that exists in one place, and the app verifies that signature before installing anything.
Found something?
[email protected]. If you’ve found something that puts people’s machines or files at risk, please tell us before telling anyone else, and we’ll work with you on it.