What stays on your Mac and what uses the internet

Clipboard history, Secret Guard, the Tray, the converter and more run entirely on your Mac. The short list of NotchMind features that go online.

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Stays on your Mac

  • Clipboard history, clipboard actions and Secret Guard
  • The Tray, the Basket and quick actions
  • The file converter
  • Developer tools
  • Coding agents and AI usage, read from logs on your Mac
  • Calendar, Messages, Mail and Inbox ranking
  • Timers, reminders, the HUD, battery, Bluetooth and stats

There’s no account, and nothing you copy, drop, convert or type is uploaded.

Uses the internet

Feature What’s sent, and where
License activation and checks Your license and a device key, to the NotchMind server
Updates A check of the update feed on dl.notchmind.com
Lyrics The song’s title, artist, album and length, to LRCLIB and lyrics.ovh
Weather The city you typed, through the NotchMind server to WeatherAPI.com
Revenue and Traffic Requests with your read-only key, straight to Dodo Payments, Plausible or Umami
Smart Mode (off by default) Short, minimized text snippets for classification. See Smart Mode.

Actions you choose, such as Open Link or Search Address, open the site in your browser.

Where your data lives

In ~/Library/Application Support/NotchMind, your settings, and the macOS Keychain for your license and keys. Local data can include sensitive things you copied; it isn’t a password manager. To delete it, see uninstall NotchMind and remove its data.

The Privacy Policy has every detail.

Still stuck?

Email support@notchmind.com with your NotchMind build and macOS version, or see Support for what to include. All help articles