Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 7, 2026

Wisp is built to respect your privacy by design. This page describes what data Wisp does and does not handle — written in plain language because that's what you'd want.

The short version

Wisp does not collect, transmit, or process any personal data. There are no accounts, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting, no "anonymized usage statistics," and no third-party SDKs of any kind. Your scratchpad never leaves your Mac unless you choose to put it inside a sync folder (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc.), in which case the sync is handled by that service — not by Wisp.

What stays on your device

• Your scratchpad text, stored at ~/Library/Application Support/Wisp/scratchpad.md by default — or wherever you've chosen via Storage Location.
• Your preferences (theme, font, keyboard shortcut, custom storage path) in macOS UserDefaults, under the bundle identifier com.sulemaanhamza.wisp.
• The "Launch at Login" registration state, managed by macOS via SMAppService — surfaced to you under System Settings → General → Login Items.

The only network requests Wisp makes

Wisp checks for updates by making HTTPS requests to GitHub's public Releases API:

• GET https://api.github.com/repos/sulemaanhamza/wisp/releases/latest — to find out the latest published version. The request body is empty; no Wisp-specific identifiers are sent.
• When you click Update & Restart, Wisp downloads the release zip from github.com.

That's it. GitHub's own privacy practices apply to those requests, and they will see your IP address and the User-Agent your operating system sends — the same as any normal web request. Wisp does not add headers, cookies, account identifiers, or tracking parameters.

If you enable sync

Wisp lets you choose any folder on disk as the location for scratchpad.md. If you point it at a folder inside iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Syncthing, or any other sync service, your text will be synced by that service to wherever you've configured it. Wisp itself does not participate in the sync — it just reads and writes a file.

The sync service's privacy policy governs how your text is transmitted and stored. Wisp recommends iCloud Drive for most users because it's already on every Mac.

What we will never do

• Add an account system or sign-in.
• Send your text, your preferences, or any identifier off your Mac.
• Add a paid tier or upsell that changes this policy.
• Sell, share, or transfer any data — because there is none to share.
• Add advertising or sponsored content.

Source code

Wisp is open source under the MIT license. You can read every line at github.com/sulemaanhamza/wisp to verify these claims yourself, or grep for any network call.

Changes to this policy

If this policy ever changes meaningfully, the updated version will live here with a new "Last updated" date. The intent is for it to keep saying roughly the same thing it does today: Wisp does not collect data.

Questions

Open an issue at github.com/sulemaanhamza/wisp/issues.