Your notes stay on your computer

Peekin is a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that keeps sticky notes as tabs on the edge of your screen. It is made by Qubyte Labs (“we”). This policy explains what Peekin does with information. In short: nothing leaves your computer except a check for updates.

Nothing. Peekin has no account, sign-in or profile. It has no analytics, usage tracking, crash reporting, advertising or third-party SDKs. We never receive your notes, your settings or anything about you.

Your notes and settings are saved on your computer in Documents/Peekin (or in a PeekinData folder next to the app in portable mode). The last good copy is kept as notes.json.bak. Only you can read these files; we have no access to them.

Reminders, notifications, global shortcuts and the “notes for an app” feature all work on your computer. To show a note only while a certain app is in front, Peekin looks at the name of the app in front; that name is never stored beyond your own notes and never sent anywhere.

Shortly after it starts, and then once a day, Peekin checks whether a newer version exists. It downloads a small file (latest.json) from our public releases page on GitHub, and when you choose to install an update, it downloads the update from there too.

• No notes, settings or personal information are included in these requests.
• Like any website, GitHub receives your IP address and basic technical information (such as the app’s user agent) when the file is downloaded. GitHub handles that under the GitHub General Privacy Statement. We do not receive or keep it.
• Every update is signature-checked before it installs, and it installs only when you say so.

A copy installed from the Microsoft Store is updated by the Store instead: it makes no update check of its own, so it never goes online.

Peekin writes warnings and errors to peekin.log in the same folder as your notes, to help with troubleshooting. It never contains your notes, stays on your computer, and is only shared if you send it to us yourself.

This website has no cookies, analytics, advertising or sign-up forms. Two things happen when you visit it:

• It is hosted on Cloudflare, which receives your IP address and basic technical information to deliver the pages, under the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
• To show the current version and its download links, your browser asks GitHub for our latest public release. Downloads come from GitHub too.

We use your email address and what you send only to reply and to fix the problem you report. We don’t add you to any list or share it.

Uninstall Peekin, then delete the Documents/Peekin folder. That removes everything; nothing about you exists anywhere else.

Peekin collects no information from anyone, including children.

If this policy changes, the new version will appear on this page with a new date at the top.

Questions about privacy? Email hello@peekin.site.