Notch does not collect anything you put in your planner. There is no Notch account, no ads, and no tracking across apps or websites. Your planner is stored on your device. Purchase reporting and the optional services described below make network requests. They do not give the developer access to your planner.
You can optionally connect a Google account so Notch can show your inbox and mirror your Google Calendar. This is what happens, completely and exactly:
What Notch accesses. With your permission, Notch requests read-only access to Gmail (gmail.readonly) and read-only access to Google Calendar (calendar.readonly). Notch reads recent inbox message headers and snippets, the full text of a message only when you open it, and your calendar events. Read-only means Notch can never send, edit, delete, or move anything in your Google account.
How it is used. Google data is used for exactly one thing: showing it to you inside the app — your mail brief, your inbox, and your calendar events. If your iPhone supports Apple Intelligence, Notch may rank messages using Apple's on-device model; that processing happens entirely on your phone. Google data is never used for advertising, never sold, never shared with anyone, never transferred to any third party, and never used to train AI models.
Where it is stored. A small cache of recent messages and events is stored in files on your device, readable only by the app and excluded from device backups. Sign-in tokens are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device. Notch has no servers: your Google data travels directly between your phone and Google, and nowhere else.
Who can see it. No one. The developer has no access to your Google data, and no human ever reads it.
Disconnecting. Settings → Email → Disconnect removes the account, its tokens, and every cached message and event from your device immediately. You can also revoke Notch's access at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
Limited Use. Notch's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Tasks, habits, finances, classes, reminders, notes, photos, workouts, trips and everything else you add are stored in files on your device, readable only by the app. We (the developer) have no access to them, ever.
If dashboard weather is on, Notch sends rounded coordinates to Open-Meteo to fetch local conditions. The service also receives normal network request information, including your IP address. You can turn weather off in Settings.
Place search in Travel uses Apple Maps. Changing currency fetches an exchange rate. If you turn on iPhone Calendar sharing, the items you choose are sent to the Calendar app and may sync with its accounts. These services receive the information needed for the feature you choose; none receives your whole planner.
Notch Pro is bought and managed through Apple. RevenueCat receives purchase history for app functionality and sales analytics, including the plan, dates and status. Its SDK connects when Notch opens, even before a purchase, using a random app user id and technical request metadata such as app and system versions, locale, storefront and an Apple vendor device identifier. Notch does not send it your name, email, advertising identifier, or any planner content, and does not connect its random id to a Notch account or identity. Purchase history is not used for tracking across apps or websites.
The optional app lock uses Apple's on-device Face ID / passcode verification. Notch never sees or stores biometric data — Apple's system only tells the app "unlocked" or "not."
The travel city search uses Apple's MapKit service to look up places. Your search terms are handled by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.
Reminders are scheduled locally on your device. Nothing about them leaves your phone.
Notch keeps automatic daily backups on your device, and export creates a file you control. Where you save or send it is up to you.
Settings → Erase all data clears the live planner and local note photos. Automatic backup files are retained so you can recover your planner; delete them separately in More → Data. Backups contain planner records but do not embed note photos. Exported files, system backups, purchases and copies shared to other services are not deleted by this action.
Questions? Email notchsupport@gmail.com.