HugoKit

Privacy

What HugoKit sends over the network, what hugokit.com measures and how to change analytics consent.

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  • No account
  • No analytics in the app
  • Website analytics require consent

This page lists the network requests made by HugoKit and the analytics data recorded by hugokit.com.

The app

There is no account, no sign-in and no HugoKit server. The app has no analytics and no crash reporting: nothing about how you use it is collected, and nothing is sent to me.

It does talk to the network, but only for these things:

Checking for updates The app asks hugokit.com/appcast.xml whether a newer version exists. It sends no system profile with that request – Sparkle’s system profiling is switched off.
Installing Hugo If you don’t have Hugo, the app asks GitHub for the latest Hugo release and downloads it from there.
Publishing your site Over SFTP that means your own host, and nothing else. Over GitHub Pages it means GitHub: you sign in with GitHub’s own device flow, and the app pushes with Git.

Your files stay where they are. Nothing is converted, copied into an app format, or uploaded anywhere you did not point the app at yourself.

Deploy credentials go into the macOS Keychain, never into a config file in your repository.

This website

The site uses Google Analytics 4 to count visits and downloads. It is off until you accept it: analytics storage is denied by default, and no analytics cookies are set unless you press Accept in the banner.

If you accept, page views are recorded along with a small set of events: the download button being clicked, the download actually starting, the download section coming into view, an FAQ item being opened, the light/dark toggle being used, a step in the loop panel being changed, the GitHub and feedback links being clicked, and pages that were not found.

Your choice is stored in your browser under the key hk-consent. It is not a cookie and it is not sent anywhere. Choosing Decline clears any analytics cookies that were already set.

You can change your mind at any time: the Cookies link in the footer reopens the banner.

The site has no advertising or tracking pixels. Analytics data is sent only to Google Analytics.

Questions

Write to hello@hugokit.com.

Latest release · 9 August 2026

HugoKit 0.4.0

Adds search, find and replace, an outline, backlinks and page resources to the editor, and shows what a publish will change before it happens.

  • 01 Find and replaceSearch the Content list, then find and replace inside the open Raw document.
  • 02 Page resourcesThe files in a page's bundle, with Quick Look and insert-a-reference.
  • 03 Review ChangesSee what publishing would add, change and delete on each target.
View full changelog