Terms

The licence

Chute — the macOS app, the Finder extension and the chute command-line tool — is released under the MIT licence. You may use it, copy it, modify it, and distribute it, commercially or otherwise, provided the copyright notice travels with it. The full text is in LICENSE in the repository, and it is the authoritative version. Nothing on this page overrides it.

Price

There is none. No purchase, no subscription, no licence key, no account, and no trial that ends. Chute was sold for eleven days in 2026; that product was withdrawn and the licensing machinery deleted rather than switched off.

Warranty

There is none of that either, and the MIT licence says so in capital letters: the software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind. Chute previews destructive actions before it takes them, moves files to the Trash rather than deleting them, and never touches your git worktree, index or HEAD — but it runs on your machine, against your files, and you are the one who decides to run it.

What Chute does with your data

Nothing leaves your machine. There is no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting and no network code at all, with one exception you invoke deliberately: chute gist uploads the files you name, using your own GitHub credentials, after redacting keys. The privacy page goes through it properly.

Support

Best effort, by one person, at [email protected] or in GitHub issues. Free software carries no support obligation, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest part. See Support for what to expect in practice.

Contributions

Pull requests are welcome and are accepted under the same MIT licence. There is no contributor licence agreement to sign.