About:

Clay House makes software, records and games. Everything it puts out is made in house — which is where the name comes from.

Three kinds of work and the same hands on all of them. A game, a record and a piece of software look like different trades, and they are not: each one is a thing you make, finish, and put out under your own name.

Software

Apps and useful things. Tools that do one job properly and run on the machine in front of you rather than somebody else’s. Dubplate Studio is the current one — it reads years of scattered projects and bounces, pairs each to the session that made it, and plays an album end to end, and nothing about you ever leaves your computer: its one connection is a check for a new version.

Records

A label. Garden Atlas is the first artist on it. The work is getting a record made properly and then keeping it — artwork, a release that is planned rather than posted, a page that still exists in five years. Nothing is taken down because it did not perform.

Games

Mobile games to Steam games. Cut-It-Close is the first one out: an object drops in, you swipe a freehand line to slice it, and you are scored on how close the split came to an exact fraction. Real polygon area, so a pixel of slip costs you.

Who

All built in house.

Clay House makes software, records and games, and every part of them is made in house: the code, the music, the art. That’s where the name comes from.

It was started by Carter Young, a musician and developer based in Los Angeles, California.

carteryoung.vercel.app

Few things, made with care, and never abandoned.

Buy me a coffee

Clay House is one person: the apps, the records and the games. They're free, with no ads and nothing about you for sale. If something here saved you time or made your day, a coffee keeps it going.

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Privacy Policy

Updated 24 October 2026

The short version. GetItDone keeps everything on your Mac. There's no account, no cloud, no analytics and no ads, and nothing is sold or shared. We, Clay House Software, never see anything you put in it.

What GetItDone keeps, on your Mac

Your routines, tasks, tools and spaces, and the strip as you've set it up
The links and apps your tasks open, and their logos
Your history: what you've done and how long it took
Your settings, and where the strip sits on your screen

None of it leaves your Mac. There's no server to send it to, so there's nothing for us to read, back up or recover. Export, in Settings, saves a copy as a file wherever you choose.

The two times it goes online by itself

When you give a task or a quick button a website, GetItDone asks that website for its logo, once, so the button can show it. The request goes only to the site you typed. No cookies go with it, and nothing about you or your routines. As with any visit, the site sees your internet address. The logo is kept with the button and isn't asked for again.

About once a day, GetItDone asks the Clay House website (clayhousehq.com), where it's made available, for one small file that says what the newest version is. Nothing about you goes with it: no account, no identifier, no cookies, not even which version you have. When there's a newer one, it asks you: Update or Not right now. Nothing is downloaded until you press Update. Then the new version comes from that website, and before it's put in place GetItDone checks that it really is from its maker; anything else is refused. A copy of your routines, tasks and spaces is kept on your Mac first. You can turn the check off in Settings, and then GetItDone makes no connection for it at all.

Opening a link you've set is your browser opening it, under your browser's and that site's own privacy policies.

GetItDone's own screens can't load anything from the internet: no fonts, scripts or trackers. All of it is inside the app.

What it uses on your Mac, and why

Each of these is used only when you use the task or tool that needs it, and macOS asks you first wherever it needs permission.

Accessibility: to put windows side by side for a task, lock the screen, hold the keyboard while you clean it (keys are blocked, never read or recorded), and keep the strip's buttons answering the pointer, and see from the menu bar (and Control Center's setting for showing its Focus item there) whether a Focus like Do Not Disturb is on, for its tool
Automation: to play and pause what a task opened in your browser, Spotify or Music, to open a task's links in the right browser window, and to switch your Mac between light and dark
Bluetooth: to show whether it's on, and turn it on or off. It never looks for or connects to devices.
Wi-Fi: to show whether it's on, how strong the signal is, and whether it's a phone's hotspot. It doesn't read the network's name or where you are.
Sound: the Volume and Mic tools set your speaker volume and mute your microphone, and the Mic tool shows when an app is using it. GetItDone never listens to or records anything.
Battery: the Battery tool shows how much is left, on your Mac or, if you set it to, on your connected AirPods and other Bluetooth devices that report it, like a keyboard or mouse (from macOS's own Bluetooth report, the one System Information shows)
Screen time: the Screen time tool counts the minutes you've been at your Mac today: whether the screen is on and unlocked, and how long since you last used the keyboard or pointer. It never sees what you typed, clicked or opened. It keeps one number for today, on your Mac.
Finder: the Desktop icons tool hides or shows what's on your desktop with Finder's own setting, and restarts Finder to take it up. Your files aren't touched.
Shortcuts: the Do Not Disturb tool can run a shortcut you pick from your Shortcuts app
Media keys: the strip's play, pause and skip work on whatever played last, like the keys on your keyboard
What's playing: to show what's playing and play or pause it, GetItDone looks at the addresses of your browser's tabs, and asks only a tab on a video or music site (like YouTube, Netflix or Spotify) for its title. It never reads any other page, so not your mail, documents or anything else. For a player app, like VLC, QuickTime or Spotify, it reads the window's title, and for no other app. Nothing it sees is kept.
Files: only the apps you choose for a task to open, and a file you import

What it doesn't do

No account, sign-in or email address
No analytics, tracking or crash reports
No ads
Nothing sold or shared, with anyone
No location, contacts, camera or photos, and no recording of any kind

Deleting it

Deleting the app leaves your routines on your Mac, so a reinstall picks up where you left off. To erase them too, quit GetItDone and delete the folders named com.carteryoung.getitdone in your Library's WebKit and Caches folders, and the file of the same name in Library/Preferences.

Children

GetItDone doesn't collect personal information from anyone, of any age, because it doesn't collect personal information at all.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the update that brings it says so.

GetItDone is made by Clay House Software · Questions: support@clayhousehq.com

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