Privacy
Your data
Stays on your Mac. Readdown reads your Markdown files in place. It never copies, syncs, or uploads them. Your recent documents, window positions, and preferences live in your Mac's local settings. There are no accounts.
What we collect, anonymously
- Update checks. Once a day, while Readdown is open, the app asks readdown.app whether a new version exists. The request includes the app version, your macOS version, Mac model, CPU type, RAM, and language. No identifier, no account. We use it to guide product decisions: which macOS versions and Macs to support, performance targets, language priorities, and where to focus future work.
- Site analytics. Page views on readdown.app go through Cloudflare. No cookies, no cross-site tracking. The download counter on the homepage reads the public GitHub release count.
What we never see
- The contents of any file you open.
- File names, paths, or which files you've opened.
- Account info. There are no accounts.
- Device identifiers, advertising IDs, or fingerprints.
- Crash reports. Crashes stay in macOS's local reporter.
Opting out
To stop sending update-check data: in Readdown, open Check for Updates… and uncheck Automatically check for updates. You'll also stop hearing about new versions. Grab them from readdown.app when you want.
Source code
Readdown is source-available on GitHub. Updates are handled by Sparkle, the standard open-source update framework for Mac apps.
Questions
Open an issue on GitHub or email hello@readdown.app.