AltTab — https://github.com/lokeshgovindu/AltTab
AltTab is a desktop utility that runs entirely on your own computer. It contains no analytics, no telemetry and no crash reporting, and it sends no usage data anywhere. There is no account, no login and no server operated by this project.
This policy describes the one network request AltTab makes, what it stores on your machine, and how to stop both.
None. The author of AltTab operates no server, receives no data from the application, and has no way to identify you or count installations beyond the download statistics that GitHub and SourceForge publish for any public file.
To tell you when a newer version exists, AltTab downloads a small text file containing the latest version number:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alttab/files/version.txt/download
That request is an ordinary HTTP download. AltTab transmits no information of its own with it — no machine or user identifier, no installed version, no list of your windows or running applications, no configuration, no usage statistics.
As with visiting any website, the server hosting the file necessarily observes the connection: your IP address, the approximate time, and standard HTTP request metadata. That data is handled by SourceForge, not by this project, under SourceForge’s privacy statement.
The check is enabled by default and runs once when AltTab starts. You can change or disable it at any time under Settings → General → Check for updates:
| Setting | Behaviour |
|---|---|
Startup |
Check once each time AltTab starts (default) |
Daily |
Check at most once per day |
Weekly |
Check at most once per week |
Never |
No network requests at all |
Choosing Never stops all network activity. AltTab is fully functional with updates disabled; nothing is withheld or degraded.
The same setting can be written directly in AltTabSettings.ini:
[General]
CheckForUpdates=Never
Everything AltTab writes stays on your machine. Nothing below is transmitted.
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Settings | AltTabSettings.ini, beside AltTab.exe |
Your preferences |
| Last update-check time | Same settings file | To honour the Daily/Weekly interval |
| Log files | Beside AltTab.exe, only in the ReleaseLogger build |
Local troubleshooting |
Log files are produced only by the optional logging build, are written locally, and are never uploaded. The default download has logging compiled out entirely.
AltTab embeds no advertising, no tracking libraries and no third-party analytics SDKs. Its sole third-party dependency is log4cpp (LGPL), a local logging library that performs no network activity.
Released binaries are signed through SignPath.io as part of the build; that process involves the project’s binaries, not any user data. See SIGNING.md.
AltTab is a general-purpose desktop utility. It collects no personal data from anyone, including children.
AltTab is distributed as an archive and installs nothing system-wide. It creates no services, no scheduled tasks and no registry-based system configuration changes.
AltTabSettings.ini in that folder to remove your settings.Nothing is left behind elsewhere on the system.
Changes are made in this file and are therefore recorded in the repository’s public git history.
Questions or concerns: open an issue at https://github.com/lokeshgovindu/AltTab/issues.