Legal · Effective September 20, 2026
Terms of Service
BetterC0de is a free desktop app in beta. These terms are short on purpose. The most important part is what we collect, which is almost nothing.
The short version
- · Everything runs on your machine. There is no account.
- · Your code, prompts and API keys never touch our servers.
- · The app sends an anonymous heartbeat so we can count active users.
- · Crash reports are only sent when the app crashes, and are stored privately.
- · Beta software, provided as-is. Open source at the end of September.
1. Using BetterC0de
BetterC0de is a desktop workspace that runs coding agents you already have installed — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor Agent, Grok and others — through their own command-line tools. Those tools, and any subscriptions or API keys they need, are yours and governed by their providers' terms. BetterC0de does not provide, resell or proxy access to any AI model.
You may use the app for any lawful purpose. Please don't try to break the reporting endpoints, spam them, or use them to store anything other than genuine diagnostics.
2. What we collect
We collect the minimum needed to know whether the beta works and how many people use it. There are no accounts, no cookies in the app and no third-party trackers.
- Anonymous install ID
- A random identifier generated on your machine the first time the app starts. It is not linked to your name, email or device serial — it just lets us count the same install once.
- Heartbeat
- While the app is open it pings our server roughly every 25 seconds with the install ID, app version and operating system. We use this to count active users and show a usage chart. Nothing about what you are doing is included.
- Approximate location
- Our hosting provider (Vercel) derives country, region and city from the connection when a ping arrives. We store those three values. We do not store your IP address.
- Crash reports
- Only when the app hits an error: the error message, a stack trace, the app's own recent log lines and the metadata above. Reports can contain local file paths. They are written to private storage that only the maintainer can read and are never published.
- Website analytics
- This website uses Vercel Analytics: aggregate, cookieless page-view counts. It cannot identify you.
- Your code
- Never sent. Files, diffs, terminal output — all stay local.
- Prompts & conversations
- Never sent to us. They go directly from your machine to the agent CLI you chose.
- API keys & credentials
- Never read, stored or transmitted by BetterC0de. Each CLI manages its own auth.
3. Where it lives and for how long
Telemetry is stored in the EU (Frankfurt) on Vercel infrastructure — a Postgres database for pings and a private object store for crash reports. We keep it only as long as it is useful for the beta and may delete it at any time. If you want your install's data removed, send the install ID from the app's settings to us on Discord and we'll delete it.
You can also stop all telemetry by blocking betterc0de.com in your firewall — the app keeps working without it.
4. Beta, warranty and liability
BetterC0de is pre-release software provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. Agents can and do make mistakes — review changes before you ship them, keep backups, and use version control. To the extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any loss or damage arising from use of the app, including anything an agent does to your files.
5. Open source
The source code will be published at the end of September 2026. From that point the code is governed by its open-source license, and these terms continue to cover the hosted telemetry endpoints and this website.
6. Changes & contact
If these terms change in a way that matters, the date at the top moves and we say so on Discord. Questions go to the BetterC0de Discord or to kerim0x1.