The app goes online for three things

git itself: fetching, pushing and cloning run your own git against your own remotes. GeeTree is not in between.
The update check: at launch, at most once a day, to api.geetree.app. The request carries the version and the platform (for example GeeTree/0.2.1 (macos; aarch64)) and nothing else; the server counts by day, version, platform and country, keeps no identifier and sets no cookie. Preferences → Update turns it off.
Hosting accounts: the APIs of GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps, only after you have signed in yourself and only while you use those features.

What stays on your machine

Settings are written to settings.toml in the configuration directory; account tokens are kept in the system keychain, never in that file.
Each repository's index and cache live in the data directory, logs in the system log directory, and crash reports in the data directory's crashes folder.
None of it is sent anywhere on its own.

Preferences → Feedback opens a prefilled GitHub issue in your browser, which you read and submit yourself. The app uploads nothing by itself.

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Last updated: 2026-10-26