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Last updated 24 September 2026

NotchBuddy is made by Approtic Solution Private Limited (Hyderabad, Telangana, India). This page covers the NotchBuddy Mac app and this website.

The app

Notes, reminders, links, scratchpad text, clipboard history and your shelf are stored only on your Mac, in ~/Library/Application Support/NotchBuddy. We never receive them.
Clipboard history skips anything a password manager marks as secret or temporary.
Calendar events are read on your Mac, only while the Calendar tool is open, and are never stored or sent anywhere.
Now Playing talks to Music or Spotify on your Mac to show the current track.
Revenue is off until you connect a payment platform. The read-only key you paste is stored in your Mac's Keychain and sent only to that platform's own API (for example api.stripe.com) to fetch your recent payments and totals. Those payments are kept on your Mac for 31 days, with customer emails shortened (like jo•••@gmail.com). We never receive your keys or your sales.
The app has no account, no ads and no analytics.
To check your licence, the app sends your licence key, a one-way code made from your Mac's hardware ID (the ID itself never leaves your Mac), your Mac's name and the app version to notchbuddy.app, which checks them with our payment partner. This happens when you activate and every few days after. To check for updates, it downloads a small update feed from our server, which sees your IP address and app version like any web request.

On the Mac App Store, NotchBuddy is listed under the seller name DIGITALSTALK PRIVATE LIMITED. This policy covers that edition too.
If you bought NotchBuddy on the Mac App Store, Apple handles the purchase and updates. That edition has no licence key and never contacts notchbuddy.app: there is no licence check and no update feed.
It runs in Apple's app sandbox, so your notes, reminders and other data live in ~/Library/Containers/com.digitalstalk.notchbuddy on your Mac. We never receive them.
Now Playing reads the track notices that Music and Spotify post on your Mac. It asks Music or Spotify directly only when you open the Music tool or press play, pause or skip.
Everything else above applies to both editions.

This website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or advertising trackers. Our host keeps standard server logs (such as IP address and pages requested) for security.
If you sign up to be notified at launch, we keep your email only to send that one message, then delete it.
Payments are handled by our payment partner, which acts as the merchant of record. It receives your payment details and billing address; we receive your email, country and order details to deliver your licence and support you.

You can ask us what we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing support@notchbuddy.app. We reply within 30 days.