Skerry has no servers, no accounts, and no analytics. It does not collect, receive, store, or transmit your notes, your encryption key, or any personal information. It could not, even if we wanted it to.
The short version. Everything Skerry touches stays on your device. Nothing is sent to us, because there is no us to send it to: no backend, no cloud account, no tracking of any kind.
What stays on your device
Your notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you choose. Your encryption passphrase lives in the device Keychain, guarded by Face ID or your passcode, and never leaves it. Search runs on device. None of this is ever uploaded.
Backups go to storage you control
If you set up a backup, it goes to a destination you choose, such as iCloud Drive, a NAS, or an S3 bucket like iDrive e2. Skerry seals the backup with your key on your device first, so the destination only ever holds ciphertext. We are not part of that transfer and never see the data or the key.
Photo to note
Turning a photo into a note uses on-device text recognition. The image is read locally and is never uploaded. Camera and photo access are used only for that feature, only when you start it.
No tracking
- No accounts and no sign-in.
- No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting, or advertising.
- No third-party SDKs that collect data.
- No cookies and no device fingerprinting.
Children
Skerry is safe for anyone to use because it collects nothing. It is not directed at children, and it gathers no personal information from users of any age.
Changes
If Skerry ever adds an optional hosted service, this policy will be updated to describe exactly what it does before that service ships, and any such service will be end-to-end encrypted so that we still cannot read your notes.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@skerrynotes.com.