No bundling.
No upsell nags.
No telemetry.
Not “we respect your privacy”. Three specific things TuneBit does not do, written plainly so you can hold us to them — and, under each one, how to check it yourself rather than believe us.
No bundling
The installer installs TuneBit. That is the whole of it. There is no browser toolbar, no antivirus trial, no registry cleaner from a company you have never heard of, and no “recommended software” screen with a pre-ticked box you were meant to skim past. We are not paid by anyone to put anything on your computer, which is the arrangement that creates bundled software in the first place.
TuneBit does not change your browser, your homepage or your search engine, and it does not add itself to your startup programs. The only scheduled task it can create is the maintenance schedule, and only if you set one up yourself.
The one exception, stated up front: the installer may offer to fetch the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime from Microsoft. That is not a partner deal — it is the runtime TuneBit is written against, and the app cannot start without it. If you would rather nothing at all was added to the machine, use the portable build: one file, its own copy of the runtime inside it, nothing installed and nothing left behind.
If TuneBit arrived already on your PC
We sell volume and OEM licensing, so this does happen: a PC builder, a refurbisher or the shop that repaired your machine can license TuneBit and hand the computer over with it already installed, sometimes carrying their name rather than ours. It would be a strange page that led with the word bundling and left that out.
The promise above is about direction. It is that nothing rides inside TuneBit's installer that you did not come for, and that we are not paid to carry anybody else's software onto your computer. Whether the PC you bought arrived with TuneBit on it is a decision the vendor made about the product they sold you — there is nothing we could leave out of an installer that would change it.
What does not change is everything else on this page. An OEM build is the same program: no third-party software inside it, no toolbar, no trial of anything, and every tool unlocked. It also uninstalls like anything else and leaves nothing behind. That last part is the test we would want applied to us: software you can remove in a minute is a preference, and software that fights you on the way out is the thing this page exists to object to.
No upsell nags
All 34 tools work on every plan. There is no Pro tier holding back the one thing you actually needed, no counter telling you that 47 problems were found but only 3 can be fixed for free, and no banner across the app selling you something else. Licensed, TuneBit never interrupts you to sell you anything — there is nothing left to sell you.
What does appear, so you are not surprised by it: while you are on the free trial, TuneBit shows one message box as it starts, telling you how many days are left. It is a single OK button and it is gone. That notice stops the moment you enter a license code. If the trial runs out, the activation window appears rather than the app — that is the point at which the software stops, not a nag placed in front of a working program.
The same applies to your money. Nothing auto-renews, we keep no card on file, and when your year ends nothing is charged and there is nothing to remember to cancel. See pricing for what a year costs.
No telemetry
The desktop app sends us no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reports, no usage statistics and no inventory of your machine. Everything it finds out about your PC — your hardware, your event logs, your registry, your crash dumps, your product keys, the contents of your drives, the results of every scan — is displayed to you and stays on the device. There is no account to sign into inside the app and no profile of you on our side to attach any of it to.
TuneBit is not silent on the network, though, and pretending otherwise would be the sort of claim this page exists to avoid. Here is every connection it makes, in full:
| Connection | When | What leaves your PC | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| License check | Every three days, once | Your signed license code — a hardware fingerprint and an expiry date, both of which TuneBit already holds on your PC. | To find out whether the license was revoked or refunded. |
| Trial issuance | First launch of a new install, if you have no license | The hardware fingerprint, nothing else. | To issue the trial license that unlocks the app for you. |
| Update check | Once a day at most, on launch | Nothing at all — not your version, not your license, not your computer ID. It asks what the newest release is and compares it here. | To tell you a newer release exists. The download only happens if you say yes. |
| VirusTotal lookup | Only when you use the VirusTotal tool | The hash of the one file you picked, to VirusTotal — a third party with its own privacy policy. | To show you what dozens of security vendors say about that file. |
Four connections, none of them describing what you did with the software. The license check is the only routine one, and it carries a hardware fingerprint and an expiry date that TuneBit already had on your PC before it dialled out. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
This website is a separate thing, and it does count visits
The promise above is about the software. This site runs analytics — Matomo, self-hosted by us, no Google, no advertising network, no third-party tag. It anonymizes your IP address before storing anything and it honours your browser’s Do Not Track setting, in which case it records nothing about your visit at all. We would rather tell you that here than let you find it in the page source and wonder what else we left out.
And if we ever break one of these
Tell us, publicly or privately, and we will either fix it in the next build or take the claim off this page. A promise you cannot check is marketing; the point of the three above is that you can. The other half of trusting a repair tool is being able to undo what it did — that story is written out in full on how to undo anything TuneBit does.