Privacy

Urth doesn’t collect any data. There are no accounts, no analytics, no tracking and no ads.

Your notes

Your notes are plain text files stored on your devices and in your own iCloud Drive, in Urth’s folder (or a folder you choose). They’re never sent to us; we have no servers that store anything.

Sharing a note

Share Urth Link turns a note into a link. The whole note is inside the link itself, after the “#”, so it isn’t stored anywhere: not by us, not on a server. Whoever you send it to can read it, and so can anyone they pass it on to. A link can’t be taken back, so don’t share anything private.

Opening the link shows the note on urth.app. That page is unpacked by the reader’s own browser; browsers never send the part after the “#” to a website, so the note never reaches urth.app. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which, like any web host, sees that someone visited (their IP address and browser), but not the note. There are no analytics or cookies. Theme links work the same way.

Editing a shared note on the page and sending it back makes another link of the same kind, in the reader’s browser; again nothing is sent to us. If you pick a theme on the page, that choice is kept in your own browser only. The bookmarklet runs in your browser and hands a page to the Urth app on your Mac; it talks to nothing else.

Weather

If you turn on weather in daily notes, Urth sends your location (or the city you choose) to Apple Weather to get the forecast. Apple handles it under its own privacy policy. Urth keeps only the resulting sentence in your note.

Calendar

If you turn on events in daily notes, Urth reads today’s events on your device to list them in the note. They go nowhere else.

Backups

On a Mac, optional backups are copies of your notes saved to a folder you choose.

Questions

Get in touch through the contact form.