Privacy

minNotes runs entirely on your machine.

• No accounts, no telemetry, no analytics. The app never phones home about you or your files.
• Your files are plain files. A file is a standard SQLite database on your disk or share; its media sits in an ordinary folder beside it. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
• Network access is limited to things you can see: on macOS, the update check (Sparkle fetching the appcast from minnotes.app); downloading an image when you paste a remote image URL; and — when you drop or type a link on the canvas — one request to that page for its title and icon. Nothing is fetched again until you ask for a refresh.
• On Windows, the Microsoft Store installs and updates minNotes; the app itself makes no update requests there. The Store’s own handling is covered by Microsoft’s privacy statement.
• Spelling and grammar checking run fully on your machine. The dictionary and the rule set ship inside the app; no text ever leaves it.
• What stays on your machine: your preferences, a custom dictionary of words you added, and temporary working copies of the files you have open, kept in the app’s own data folder. A Windows Store install keeps it in the app’s private storage, which uninstalling removes; a folder left by the old Windows installer stays until you delete it (%APPDATA%\minNotes).
• Exports are yours. HTML, Markdown, Word, PDF, canvas and package exports are written to the location you choose and shared only by you. A browser viewing an HTML export remembers its own view settings (readable width, checked tasks) in that browser alone.

minNotes is free software — the complete source is at github.com/cbkow/minNotes under GPL-3.0-or-later, so all of the above is verifiable. Questions: open an issue.