How TackNote handles your information — the honest, plain-English version.
TackNote is operated by Buy It Now LLC, doing business as TackNote ("we," "us," or "our"). It's private by design: your notes, checklists, and voice memos live on your Mac, encrypted — there's no account, no analytics, no ads, and no tracking. We genuinely can't see what you write. The only time anything leaves your Mac is when you choose it: validating a license, or turning on iCloud sync (which runs through your own iCloud, not our servers).
Your notes, checklists, voice memos, transcripts, and their metadata are stored locally on your Mac and encrypted at rest using AES-GCM, with the key held securely in the macOS Keychain. They are never sent to us.
When you record a voice memo, transcription is done with on-device speech recognition (Apple). The audio never leaves your Mac.
When you activate a license, your license key and a device name (your Mac's name, used as the activation "instance") are sent to our payments and licensing provider, Lemon Squeezy, to verify the license. That's the extent of it.
We never receive your payment card details. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record and handles payment.
If you turn on syncing web-page notes across your Macs, those notes sync through your own iCloud account (Apple), end-to-end encrypted. We operate no servers for this and never see the contents — it's governed by Apple's iCloud privacy terms.
Notes pinned to a specific app window or file stay on the Mac they belong to.
TackNote periodically checks tacknote.app for a newer version. This is an ordinary web request — like any web server, it may log the app version and IP address in standard server logs. There are no personal identifiers and no tracking.
TackNote asks for a few macOS permissions, each tied to a specific feature:
These power the stated features only. Nothing is transmitted to us.
tacknote.app is hosted on Cloudflare. If you join an email list, we use your address only to email you about TackNote, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
The site may use privacy-respecting, cookieless analytics — no cross-site tracking.
We rely on a small number of trusted services:
We don't sell your data. Ever.
TackNote is not directed at children under 13.
If we change how any of this works, we'll update this page and the "last updated" date at the top.
Questions about privacy? We'd love to hear from you at support@tacknote.app.
This page is provided for transparency and is not legal advice.