Privacy policy

Last updated November 9, 2026.

Honeycomb is a Mac email app for Gmail. It is a personal project by Kevin Minnick and is not offered to the public.

What Honeycomb accesses

When you sign in with Google, Honeycomb asks for permission to read, label, archive and send your Gmail. It uses that access only to show and manage your own mail in the app.

Where your data stays

Mail is stored on your Mac. Sign-in tokens are stored in the macOS Keychain. Honeycomb has no server of its own and does not collect, sell or share your data.

AI features

AI features are optional. If you turn one on, the parts of a message it needs are sent to the AI provider you choose, using your own API key, only to sort or summarize your mail. Honeycomb works with AI turned off.

Google user data

Honeycomb's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Honeycomb does not use Google user data for advertising or to train AI models.

Removing access

You can remove Honeycomb's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions. Signing out in the app deletes its tokens from the Keychain.

Contact

Email support@honeycombmail.app with questions.