Privacy Policy

Privacy is a core feature, not a footnote

MinkNote was built from the ground up around three pillars: native macOS quality, local-first file ownership, and privacy by design. These are not marketing positions — they are architectural decisions baked into every part of the app.

Most note-taking apps are built around a server that stores your content. MinkNote is not. There is no MinkNote server that holds your notes. There never has been, and building one is not on the roadmap.

We never see your content

Your notes are plain Markdown files that live in a folder you choose on your own Mac. MinkNote reads and writes those files directly — it does not upload them, index them remotely, or transmit them anywhere. The content of your notes is completely invisible to us. We have no servers that receive it, no pipelines that process it, and no way to access it even if we wanted to.

This is not a privacy policy promise that could be quietly changed in a future update. It is a technical fact. The app has no networking code that touches your note content.

Your note content stays under your control

All of your notes remain on your Mac and within your own iCloud account if you choose to use iCloud Drive as your notes folder. iCloud sync is handled entirely by Apple using their own end-to-end encryption — MinkNote plays no part in that process and receives no copy of your data.

MinkNote does not require an internet connection to function. It works fully offline because it is a local app working with local files. If you choose to enable optional analytics, that does not change where your notes are stored.

No account, no identity

MinkNote requires no account, no email address, and no sign-in of any kind. There is no user profile, no user ID, and no way for us to associate the app with a specific person. As far as MinkNote is concerned, you are anonymous by default.

Analytics and telemetry

MinkNote can optionally share anonymous usage analytics with the developer to help improve the app. Analytics are optional and can be turned on or off later in Settings.

No note content, file names, search text, or personal content of any nature are ever collected. Only anonymous button clicks, UI navigation, and app UI usage patterns are tracked to help the developer understand which parts of MinkNote are most useful and where the app should improve next.

Analytics are completely anonymous, never used to inspect your notes, and never used to identify you as a person. They exist only to help make MinkNote better.

Third-party services

The MinkNote website (not the app) loads fonts from Google Fonts. This is a standard web practice and involves your browser making a request to Google's font CDN. No note content is involved. If you prefer to avoid this, you can use a browser extension that blocks third-party font requests.

If you choose to enable analytics in the app, only anonymous usage information is shared. No note content, file names, search text, or personal documents are sent.

Changes to this policy

If material changes are ever made to this policy — particularly around analytics — the date at the top of this page will be updated and, where appropriate, users will be notified within the app. Data collection will never be introduced without updating this document first.