Nothing leaves your folder.
Parker is a text editor for a folder of plain files. It has no account, no server of its own and no telemetry — so there is very little to say here, and all of it is below.
What Parker stores
Your notes, as .md and .txt files in a folder you choose. On the Mac that is ~/Documents/Parker by default; on the iPhone it is a folder in iCloud Drive, or one you pick in the Files app. Parker reads and writes those files and nothing else of yours.
Alongside them, Parker keeps its own settings and session (which notes are open, the theme, the text width) in the app's support folder on the Mac and in the app's sandbox on the iPhone. These stay on the device.
What Parker sends
Nothing, to us. Parker has no server. It does not report crashes or usage, and does not embed any analytics or advertising SDK.
The Mac app makes two kinds of request, and you can turn off both. It checks GitHub for a newer version of Parker a few seconds after it opens and once a day — nothing is downloaded until you choose to update; turn it off in Settings › Updates. And the preview loads no images until you choose to in Settings › Privacy & Security: images stored next to your notes, which never leave your Mac, or also images a note links to on the web. The iPhone app makes no network requests of its own.
Two things can move your notes between devices, and both are yours, not ours:
- A sync service you use. If your notes folder lives in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox or a similar service, that service syncs the files under its own terms. Parker only reads and writes the folder. On the iPhone, "Start fresh" creates the folder in your own iCloud Drive; the data is in your Apple account, not in ours.
- Git, if you turn it on. Parker for Mac can commit your notes to a git repository and push to a remote you configured (GitHub, for example). It runs the
giton your machine with your credentials. Parker never sees or stores those credentials, and nothing is pushed unless you set a remote and enable sync.
What Apple collects
If you install Parker for iPhone through TestFlight or the App Store, Apple may collect crash reports and, on TestFlight, the feedback and screenshots you choose to send. That data goes to Apple and is shared with us in App Store Connect under Apple's privacy policy. We use it to fix bugs. The Mac app is distributed as a direct download and has no such channel.
This website
getparker.dev is a static site hosted on Vercel, which keeps ordinary server logs (IP address, user agent, pages requested) for operating the service. The pages load the Geist typeface from Google Fonts, so your browser also requests those files from Google. The site uses Google Analytics to count visits: which pages are read, where visitors come from, and roughly which country — it never sees your notes, and the Parker apps contain no analytics at all. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies to tell returning visitors apart; in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland it runs without cookies by default and sends only anonymous pings. Advertising features are off, and the data is not used for ads. The site also uses Vercel Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies: it identifies a visit by a hash of the request that is discarded within a day, and stores no IP addresses. Your theme choice is kept in your browser's local storage and never sent anywhere.
Children
Parker collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If any of this changes — for instance, if a future version checks for updates — this page will say so first, with the date of the change. The page is versioned with the rest of Parker on GitHub.
Terms
This page is part of Parker's terms of use, which also say what Parker does not promise: it is free software provided as is, and your backups are yours.
Contact
Questions about privacy: manoel.lemos@mac.com.
Last updated October 24, 2026: this website now also uses Vercel Web Analytics.