Legit.Show measured Chute's Security frame at 45/100. Security headers present: HSTS. Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.

How does Legit.Show measure Chute?

Legit.Show scores seven frames — Performance, Accessibility, Security, Privacy, Reliability, Standards and Discoverability — deterministically from the public surface (URL, HTTP headers, real Lighthouse), with no LLM in the scoring path. See legit.show/methodology.

Productivity

Chute

Last updated 2026-08-06 · benchmark measured 2026-09-26 — deterministic & reproducible

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

64/100

7/7 frames

Top 86% of 14,181 measured · #23 of 26 in file transfer service

Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.

Checked 2026-09-26 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Chute 64/100 on 2026-09-26, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/chute-fyi/2026-09-26

Is Chute production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Chute 64 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 Accessibility; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

Performance — 67/100
Accessibility — 92/100
Security — 45/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
Privacy — 0/100
How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
Reliability — 92/100
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 — 169 ms to first byte.
Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
0 of 0 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

Sources and updates

Description: Taken from chute.fyi's own website on 2026-08-06.
Operator: Greathouse Fall, as named in chute.fyi's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark: Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-26.

Put together from public information, without Chute's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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