What Hedroom never does

These are rules in the code, not marketing. Each one is checked by tests.

It never pretends

No memory-clearing buttons of any kind. Cached files are good for your Mac, and emptying them makes things slower.
No scare scans, alarm counters or unmeasured percentages. If there is nothing to fix, it says "All good."
Memory is judged by memory pressure and swap, never by "used RAM".

Anything signed by Apple, or living in system folders. Hedroom explains those processes. It never pauses or demotes them, and rules never touch them. The one exception is Apple apps you use yourself, like Xcode: you can relaunch or quit one with a click, after confirming.
The app you are using right now, apps on a call, apps playing audio or using the microphone or camera.
Backup apps while a backup is running.
Apps on your never-touch list. You decide that list.
Apps that aren't known to handle being paused, unless you pick them yourself. Hedroom can't reliably tell whether an app has unsaved work.

No silent quits. Quitting asks the app to quit, like pressing ⌘Q, then waits.
Force quit only after a second, explicit confirmation.
Rules ship off. Each one you turn on runs on its own, is reversible and gets a receipt.
Nothing happens on a display, a fan or a startup item until you press the button for it.

Hedroom never deletes your files without your explicit permission each time.
Cleanup moves files to the Trash. It does not remove them.
Removing them for good, by emptying what Hedroom moved, needs a separate confirmation every time. It covers only the items Hedroom moved.
Rules and other automatic actions can never delete files. A rule can only relaunch, quit, pause or demote an app, sleep browser tabs, or notify you.
Startup items are turned off, never deleted.

Paused apps resume when you switch to them, and automatically within 60 minutes at most.
Files go to the Trash, so you can put them back.
Turning a startup item off renames its file, and turning it on puts the name back.
A display change you did not confirm goes back after 15 seconds, and even a confirmed one lasts only until you log out.
Fans go back to automatic whenever Hedroom quits, crashes or stops answering. A raised GPU memory limit goes back too, to what it was before, unless you changed it yourself.
Fan control and the GPU limit are the only things that need the helper. It requires your approval in System Settings, and it takes no file paths and runs no programs.

Every action gets a receipt. If Hedroom can't measure an effect, the receipt says "No measurable effect."
If other apps changed too much at the same time, the receipt says that instead.

No process names, file paths or usage leave your Mac. Hedroom has no analytics or tracking.
The browser companion never sends tab titles or URLs. It makes no network requests at all, and the helper and the extension add no network calls to Hedroom.
No account. The only things that go online are the license check (license key and a random device ID), update checks, a weekly download of the signed process library (it sends nothing about you), and feedback you choose to send. The full list.

Hedroom has a budget: under 0.5% of one CPU core on average, and under 80 MB of memory. Settings shows what it actually uses.