Last updated October 6, 2026.
ALT is built to stay out of your work. This is everything the app and this site collect, and why.
ALT watches the keyboard so it can answer shortcuts, and acts only while Excel is in front. It never records or saves what you type.
It reads the names of Excel’s menus and buttons, so it can show letters on them and run the right command. It checks one Excel setting, whether Excel’s KeyTips are on, to guide setup. It never reads your cells or your files.
Your settings and any shortcuts you change stay on your Mac. Your license is kept in your Mac’s Keychain.
ALT goes online for three things, all to altkeys.app:
Your free trial. An ID for your Mac, so each Mac gets one trial.
Your license. Your license key and the same Mac ID, when you activate or deactivate it, and about once a week to check that it’s still valid.
Updates. Once a day, a check for a new version of ALT.
The Mac ID is a one-way scramble of your Mac’s hardware ID. It can’t be turned back into the original, and it doesn’t say who you are.
Payment is handled by Stripe, which acts as the seller of record and collects your payment details. We never see your card. We receive your email address and the purchase ID, so we can make your license key, email it to you and handle refunds. That email is sent through Resend.
License records (your key, email, purchase ID, the Mac it’s active on, and dates) and trial records (the Mac ID and when the trial started) are stored with Cloudflare, which hosts this site and the license service. We keep license records for as long as the license exists, and trial records so a Mac can’t restart its trial. We only email you about your purchase, and we never sell or share your data.
No ads, no cookies and no tracking. We count how many times ALT is downloaded each day, as a plain number, and keep nothing about who downloaded it. The site remembers a few choices in your browser, such as whether sound is on and which shortcuts you’ve found. They never leave your browser.
Pages load a font from Google Fonts, so Google receives your IP address. Cloudflare, our host, handles basic request details like IP addresses to deliver and protect the site.
If you write to [email protected], we keep the conversation so we can help you.
Email [email protected] to see or delete your data. Deleting a license record turns that license off, so we’ll check with you first.
ALT isn’t meant for children under 13.
When this policy changes, the date at the top changes too.