Privacy

Short version: your notes stay on your Mac. Sticky goes online only to check for a new version of itself.

Your notes

Sticky stores your notes in one file on your Mac, in the app's Application Support folder. There is no account, no sync between Macs, and no cloud.

What Sticky reads, and why

To put a note on the right window, Sticky uses the Accessibility permission of macOS. With it, Sticky reads the titles, documents, positions and sizes of your windows, so a note can follow its window and come back to it later.

To put a note on a web page, Sticky asks Safari or Google Chrome for the address of the page you look at. It asks only while that browser is in front, and it never opens a browser by itself. macOS asks you first. You can say no, and you can change your answer at any time in System Settings.

Sticky keeps a page address only when you stick a note on that page. Before it stores an address, it removes parts that look like secrets, such as tokens, session ids and email addresses. Addresses from private browser windows are treated the same way: they are not kept unless you put a note on the page.

Sticky never asks for Screen Recording or Input Monitoring. It does not look at your screen and does not record what you type in other apps.

All of this happens on your Mac. Sticky does not send any of it anywhere.

Updates

Once a day, Sticky checks sticky.beka.rocks for a new version, and downloads it when there is one. This check does not include information about your Mac or your notes. You can turn off automatic checks in Sticky's Settings.

Questions

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