Productivity

Chute

Last updated 2026-08-06 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible

Chute is a macOS menu-bar app for sending files, links, and text to your iPhone via AirDrop.

Is Chute production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Chute 67 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Chute (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 77/100
• Accessibility — 92/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 0/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 60/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 186 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 1 of 1 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Jackson Greathouse Fall (@jacksonfall)

Who it's for

Mac users · iPhone users · macOS power users · productivity enthusiasts

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