NotesBridge

Privacy Policy

Last updated 15 November 2026

Short version

Your notes stay on this Mac. NotesBridge reads them locally and only passes a note to an AI app when that app asks for it on your behalf. It goes online only to check your license and, if you allow it, for updates. We do not collect analytics, and we do not sell or share data.

What stays on your Mac

All files you open with NotesBridge, and all results it produces, are processed locally and never sent to us.

What leaves your Mac, and when

• License check. When you activate a license, and about once a week afterwards, NotesBridge sends your license key and your Mac's name to our payment provider, Lemon Squeezy, to confirm the license. No file contents are sent.
• Full Disk Access (read-only). macOS keeps the Notes database behind Full Disk Access. NotesBridge asks for it only to read that database, in read-only mode. It never writes to the database directly.
• Automation (only to create or append). New notes and appended text are added through the Notes app itself (macOS asks you to allow this the first time), so iCloud sync keeps working normally.
• Updates (only if you allow). NotesBridge asks before checking for updates automatically. An update check downloads a small file from https://tidyware.app/notesbridge and sends your app version and macOS version, as any web request does.
• AI assistants (only if you connect them). If you connect NotesBridge to an AI app such as Claude or ChatGPT, that AI app decides what it sends to its own servers under its own privacy policy. NotesBridge itself does not upload anything.
• Bug reports (only if you send one). Logs are stored locally in ~/Library/Logs. They are only sent if you choose to email them to us.

Purchases

Payments are handled by Lemon Squeezy (merchant of record). We receive your name, email and order details to provide licenses and support. See the Lemon Squeezy privacy policy.

Contact

support@tidyware.app — we answer privacy questions and delete purchase data on request, unless the law requires us to keep it.