Privacy

Last updated 3 November 2026.

Who we are

NotchSprout is made by Pakkawork, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. This notice covers the Mac app and the Windows app and explains what they do with your data. Questions, requests and complaints go to admin@pakkawork.com, or call or message +91 90592 56132 (also on WhatsApp).

What stays on your computer

On a Mac, your tasks, plans, notes, focus history, Shield lists, settings and clipboard history are stored on your Mac only. NotchSprout has no server that receives them (the website analytics described below are separate). We do not sell data and we do not show ads. The clipboard history is kept in memory and is never written to disk; items that password managers mark as secret are skipped.

This website and analytics

This website uses Google Analytics to count visits and downloads: which pages are read, roughly which country and device visitors come from, how they found the site, and which download buttons are pressed. It does not ask for your name or email, and advertising features and ad personalisation are switched off. In the EU, the UK and Switzerland, analytics cookies are not used and no visit is counted unless you allow it. The Mac and Windows apps themselves do not contain Google Analytics and send no usage data to us. You can block analytics with your browser settings or a content blocker and the site works the same. Google processes this data under its own terms at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

NotchSprout for Windows

The Windows app has no account and no server. Your tasks, notes, focus history and settings are stored in one file on your PC (in your AppData folder, NotchSprout). Clipboard history is off until you turn it on. For the weather chip it asks ipapi.co once a day for your approximate location (rounded to about 11 km) and then asks the Open-Meteo weather service for the forecast at those rounded coordinates. It has no Gmail or Google sign-in and no AI helper. Uninstalling it and deleting that folder removes everything.

Sign in with Google (Mac)

You sign in with your Google account. NotchSprout asks Google only for your name, email address and profile picture. The sign-in is kept encrypted on your Mac and is never sent to us.

Google apps (read only)

You can connect Gmail and Google Calendar (other Google apps are listed as coming soon and ask for nothing until they are added). Every connection is read only: NotchSprout can look but never send, change or delete anything. What it reads is used on your Mac, for example to show a banner when new mail arrives or to show your next meeting. It stores only what it needs to avoid showing the same banner twice. You can disconnect any app at any time in Account, which also ends the permission at Google. You can also remove access in your Google Account settings.

Google API limited use

NotchSprout's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Information from Google is not used for advertising, is not sold, is not used to train AI models, and is not read by people at Pakkawork.

AI helper

When you use Plan with AI, Break down, Brain dump, Ask, Evening note, the focus coach, planning by voice or the clipboard actions, NotchSprout sends the text needed for that one answer (task titles, due times, meeting titles, what you said, or the text you choose) to a language model on Amazon Web Services (Bedrock). It is not used to train models and NotchSprout does not keep it. You can switch the AI helper off in Settings and nothing is sent.

Voice

When you choose Talk to AI, the microphone is used only while the island shows that it is listening, and your words are turned into text by Apple speech recognition (on your Mac when it can). The recording is not saved.

Weather and location

For today's weather NotchSprout uses your approximate location, rounded to about 11 km, and sends only those rounded coordinates to the Open-Meteo weather service. You can decline location and the rest of the app keeps working.

Permissions

NotchSprout asks macOS for Calendar, Reminders, Location, Bluetooth, Microphone, Speech Recognition and Automation only when you press the button for the feature that needs them. Each one can be changed in System Settings.

Your rights

You can export your data, correct it and delete it. In the app, Account, Delete all my data signs you out, ends every Google permission and erases everything NotchSprout stored on your Mac. These rights follow the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (India) and, where it applies, the GDPR. To ask anything else or to raise a grievance, write to the founder, Karthik Idikuda, at admin@pakkawork.com; we answer within 30 days.

Children

NotchSprout is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this notice changes in a way that matters, the app will tell you and this page will show the new date.