Skyline
At a glance
Skyline shows how your own computer is doing. It has no account, no analytics, no ads and no server, and it makes no network connections unless you turn on Weather.
1What Skyline reads, on your computer only
To draw the bar and its panels, Skyline asks the operating system for:
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| CPU, memory and battery levels | ON DEVICE The numbers on the bar and in the panels. |
| Network adapters’ byte counters | ON DEVICE Download and upload speed. Traffic itself is never inspected. |
| Drive size, free space and read/write counters | ON DEVICE The storage item and panel. Your files are never read, listed or scanned. |
| Running processes (name, CPU and memory) | ON DEVICE The top-five list, only while a panel is open. |
| The foreground app’s name | ON DEVICE Shown on the docked bar. Window titles and contents are never read. |
| Light/dark mode, accent color, animation setting | ON DEVICE So the bar matches your system. |
2What leaves your computer
Nothing, unless you turn on Weather, which is off by default. Skyline has no update checks, no crash reports and no usage statistics. If you install it from the Microsoft Store, the Store handles downloads and updates under Microsoft’s own privacy policy.
3Weather (opt-in)
If you turn on Weather and pick cities in Settings, Skyline asks Open-Meteo for their forecast and air quality:
| Data | Where it goes |
|---|---|
| Each picked city’s coordinates, rounded to 2 decimals (about 1 km), and °C or °F | OPEN-METEO About every 30 minutes, only while your screen is unlocked. |
| What you type in the city search | OPEN-METEO Only while you search in Settings. |
| Your device’s location | NEVER Skyline doesn’t use location services; you pick cities by name. |
| Any identifier, account or usage data | NEVER |
Open-Meteo’s own privacy policy applies to the requests it receives (like any web service, it may log IP addresses). Forecasts stay in memory; turning Weather off stops every request.
4What is stored on your computer
One small settings file with your preferences: which items show, thresholds, clock format, layout, position and, with Weather on, the cities you picked. The last 60 seconds of readings live in memory and are gone when Skyline quits.
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\Skyline\config.toml - Linux:
~/.config/Skyline/config.toml
Uninstalling Skyline (or deleting that file) removes it.
5Permissions
On Windows, Skyline runs as a full-trust desktop app. It needs that to reserve screen space for the bar, follow the foreground app, and run the power menu (lock, sleep, restart, shut down, sign out), which it does only when you pick one of those actions.
Start with Windows and Start at login stay off until you turn them on.
6What Skyline never does
- No tracking, telemetry or crash-reporting services.
- No advertising identifiers and no ads.
- No account, and no selling or sharing of data. Skyline collects no personal data from anyone, including children.
7This website
This site is static. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses. The site uses no cookies or analytics and stores nothing in your browser.
8Contact
We may update this policy; the date at the top shows the latest version.