Privacy Policy

Notebook has no server, no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. The app collects nothing about you, and neither does this website.

Last updated 16 October 2026

Who is responsible

He develops the app and runs this website, and is the controller under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

What the app stores, and where

• Your notes are the Markdown files in your own folders. Notebook reads and writes them in place. Pictures and files you add to a note go into a hidden .assets folder next to it.
• The folders you add as locations are remembered on your device, with the permission to open them again. On iPhone and iPad, notes you keep on the device are in Notebook's own folder, which the Files app shows under On My iPhone › Notebook.
• Favourites, recently opened files, the folders open in the sidebar and your settings (typeface, text size, what the sidebar shows, the notebook on the app icon) stay in the app's preferences on your device.
• The search index of file names, note text and PDF text is kept in memory only and built again at every launch.

Deleting the app removes everything it stored. Your notes are your files and stay where they are, except notes kept on an iPhone or iPad in Notebook's own folder, which the system deletes with the app.

Camera and photos on iPhone and iPad

• The camera is used only when you take a photo or scan a document into a note, and only after you have allowed it. The picture is saved next to the note, like any other.
• Photos are chosen in the system's photo picker. Notebook receives only the pictures you pick and has no access to the rest of your library.

What the app sends, and to whom

• Nothing. Notebook contains no code that connects to the internet. Pictures in notes that point to a web address are not downloaded; Notebook shows the address instead.
• When you click or tap a web link in a note, your browser opens it.
• If your notes are in iCloud Drive, Apple syncs them as it syncs every other file there. Notebook asks the system to download notes that aren't on your device yet, so it can show and search them. What Apple does with iCloud Drive is described in Apple's privacy policy.

This website

This website is hosted by GitHub Pages, a service of GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. To deliver a page, GitHub receives your IP address and the usual details of the request (which page, when, which browser). GitHub logs visitors' IP addresses for security purposes. This is based on the legitimate interest in providing the website reliably and securely (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). GitHub has certified that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework; see GitHub's privacy statement.

The website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking. Its pictures and styles come with the page; nothing is loaded from other servers. Links to GitHub lead to GitHub, where its own privacy policy applies.

When you write

If you send an email, your address and message are used only to answer you (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR) and are deleted when the conversation is over, unless the law requires keeping them longer. Issues you open on GitHub are public there, under GitHub's own terms.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask what data about you is processed, have it corrected or deleted, restrict its processing, receive it in a portable format, and object to processing based on legitimate interest. Write to the address above. You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Changes

When the app or this website changes how it handles data, this page changes with it. The date at the top says when it last did.