Security

What leaves your Mac, and what never does

PixoNotes has no account, no telemetry and no server of ours. Here is exactly what that means.

The whole list

Where your data goes

Your notes are files on your Mac. The app makes two kinds of connection, and neither carries a note.

What	Where	What is sent
Your notes and files	Your Mac	Nothing. With sync on, they also go to the folder you chose.
Update check	cdn.pixonotes.com	Nothing. The app reads one small file to see if a new version exists.
Pro licence	Polar, our payment provider	The licence key and a label for the Mac. Never on the free plan.
Apple Intelligence	Your Mac	Nothing leaves. macOS runs Apple's models on the Mac.

Sync

One small file per note, in iCloud Drive or any folder you pick. We never see it. The newest edit wins, and deletions travel as records.

Your Mac

Notes as plain text

A folder you own

iCloud Drive by default, or any folder

Your other Mac

Notes as plain text

The rules

Notes are plain text on disk. Marks stay visible, so nothing is locked in.

A file that cannot be read is set aside, and never treated as deleted.

Kept for two weeks, and you can back up or restore at any time.

A deleted note waits 30 days before it goes.

Your Pro key is kept in the Mac's Keychain.

No password of ours exists, so none can leak.

Updates

Every update is signed with our release key, and one changed byte is refused.

The app must be signed by us, for this app, and be the promised version.

It installs itself, then a card says to restart PixoNotes to use it.

Found a security problem? Write to [email protected]

Stickies on your desktop, a board for your projects, and a scratchpad good enough to leave your code editor closed.