Last updated: 17 September 2026
The short version
Just-Notes does not collect anything about you. You can use it without an account, and there is no advertising and no tracking. Your notes are stored on your own device. If you switch on sync, they are also kept in your own Google Drive, where nobody but you can read them — including us.
This website counts visits. The counter is our own, it sets no cookies, it cannot tell who you are, and the numbers reach nobody outside Treeberg GmbH. The section "This website" says exactly what is counted.
Who is responsible
Treeberg GmbH, Hüsemanns Esch 4, 48531 Nordhorn, Germany. Contact: hello@just-notes.app.
What we collect
From the app: nothing.
There is no sign-up, no login and no profile. Nothing the app sends is tied to you, and we could not identify you from it if we wanted to. Sync, if you switch it on, sends your notes to your own Google Drive and not to us; it is described below.
There are two places on this website where you can hand us something, and you have to type it in yourself at both: the form that asks for your email address so we can tell you when a version for your device is ready, and the form for reporting a problem, which the app's Settings can open for you. Both are described below. If you never use either, we hold nothing that could identify you — only the anonymous count of visits described next.
This website
The pages you are reading count visits, and the counter is our own: Umami, an open-source tool running on Treeberg GmbH's own server at stats.treeberg.de. Nothing about your visit goes to Google, to an advertising network, or to anybody else at all. This is the same reason the fonts on this page are served from here rather than from Google: a visitor's address is not ours to hand out.
No cookies, and nothing stored on your device. That is not a setting we chose — the tracker has none in it. There is therefore no consent banner on this site, because there is nothing placed on your device to consent to.
What is counted, and this is the whole list: which page was opened, which site you arrived from, your browser, your operating system, the type of device, and the country. An IP address is not one of the things kept; it is used to work out the country and goes no further.
What cannot be done with it: identifying you, recognising you when you come back, or following you onto any other website. The tool is built so that none of those are possible, and we have added nothing to it.
We read these numbers to see which pages people open and whether anybody is finding the site at all. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing that (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). If you would rather not be counted, any content blocker stops it, and the site works exactly as before.
Where your notes live
On your device, in the application's own private storage — and, if you switch on sync, also in your own Google Drive, as described under Sync below:
- Windows —
%APPDATA%\app.just-notes\ - macOS —
~/Library/Application Support/app.just-notes/ - iOS / Android — the app's private container, which other apps cannot read
On macOS and iPhone there is a second place, and naming one without the other would make this list wrong: the app's shared group container, which holds a copy of your notes for the home-screen and Notification Centre widgets to read. A widget is a separate program and may not open the database, so what it shows has to be put somewhere it can reach. That container belongs to this app, no other app can read it, and it never leaves the device.
Notes, attachments and settings are kept in a local database. What happens when you delete the app depends on the platform, and the honest answer differs: on iPhone and Android it goes with the app, because the system removes the whole private container. On Windows and macOS it stays on your disk — the Windows uninstaller asks first and keeps it unless you say otherwise, and on macOS moving the app to the Trash does not touch it.
On Android the app opts out of the system's automatic backup, so your notes are never copied to Google Drive by the operating system. They are still carried across if you move to a new phone using Android's device-to-device transfer, which goes from one phone to the other and not through anybody's server. You can export everything to plain, readable files at any time, without an account and without a network connection.
When the app uses the network
On Windows, once: to check for updates. The Windows app asks https://updates.just-notes.app/latest.json whether a newer version exists. That request contains no information about you and nothing about your notes. Like any request to any web server, the server sees the IP address it came from and the time it arrived; that is a property of how the internet works, not something we record about you or link to anything. On every other platform the store that installed the app updates it.
On iPhone and Mac, for sync and for the App Store. When you open Sync in Settings, the app asks Apple's App Store for the price of the subscription, and it checks with the App Store on your device whether you have one. If you switch sync on, it signs in on Google's own page and then exchanges your notes with Google Drive (accounts.google.com, oauth2.googleapis.com, www.googleapis.com), over encrypted connections. Nothing else: without sync the notes never leave the device.
On Android, not at all. The Android app makes no network requests.
Everywhere, when you tap a link in a note, the app hands it to your browser and stops there — what happens next is between you and that website.
Permissions, and why each one exists
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Notifications | To show a reminder you set on a note |
| Exact alarms (Android) / Alarms (iOS) | So a reminder fires at the minute you asked, rather than whenever the system finds convenient |
| Run after restart (Android) | So reminders you set before a reboot still arrive |
| Internet (Android) | Declared by the framework the app is built on. The Android app makes no network requests |
| Full-screen notifications (Android) | So a reminder can show itself on a locked screen instead of waiting until you unlock. Android lists it under special app access, where you can take it back |
| Photos | Only when you choose a picture to put in a note. The app is handed that one file; it never gains access to your library |
Sync, if you switch it on
Sync keeps your notes the same on your iPhone and your Mac. It is off until you switch it on, it is a paid subscription, and the app works fully without it.
Where your notes go. Into your own Google Drive, in the private application folder (appDataFolder) that only Just-Notes can see and that does not appear among your files. What goes there: your notes, the pictures and files in them, how they are arranged — sections, order, archive, icons — and the settings you share between devices. Each device also stores a random identifier there, so your devices can tell their changes apart. Nothing else.
What Just-Notes can reach in your Google account. One hidden folder, and the address of the account itself. The app asks for a single permission, drive.appdata, which reaches that folder and no other file in your Drive; the address comes from the same permission, because Google will tell an app which account signed in to it. It cannot see your other files, your name or your contacts.
What we do with that address. We keep it, so that we can write to you about Just-Notes: a new version, or something that matters. That is the only reason, and the screen you sign in on says so above the button. Nothing else about you is sent with it - not your name, not your notes, not anything you do in the app. Every email we send has an unsubscribe link, and you can ask us to delete the address at any time at hello@just-notes.app. It goes to the same list as an address typed on our website; the section "The email list" below describes both in full.
Who can read them. You, through your Google account. We operate no server for sync and hold no copy, so we cannot read your notes. Just-Notes adds no encryption of its own: what protects your notes there is your Google account, as it protects the rest of your Drive, and they travel over encrypted connections (HTTPS).
Signing in. You sign in on Google's own page — on iPhone in the system's sign-in sheet, on Mac in your browser. The permission Google gives the app is kept in the system Keychain on that device and nowhere else.
Google's rules. Just-Notes' use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
The subscription. Apple takes the payment through the App Store, and Apple's privacy policy covers it. We do not receive your name, your email address or your payment details. The app asks the App Store on your device whether your subscription is active; the sales reports Apple gives us do not identify you.
Stopping. Cancel the subscription in your Apple account's subscriptions; sync stops when it ends, and the app keeps working, offline, with everything you wrote. To delete what sync put in your Google Drive: in Google Drive, open Settings, then Manage apps; at Just-Notes, open Options and choose Delete hidden app data. To take back the app's access to your Google account: Google Account, Security, connections to third-party apps and services, Just-Notes, remove access.
The email list
If you ask us to tell you when something is ready, we store your email address and nothing else beside it — no name, no company, no device, no tracking pixel in the mail we send.
How it works. On the website you type your address and press the button, under a line that says what we will send. In the app you sign in with Google, and the screen says the same thing above the button, before you press it. Either way, that is your consent, and nothing is sent to you before it.
The address from the app. If you turn sync on, you sign in with Google, and Google tells the app the address of the account you chose. That address goes to the same list. Nothing else about you goes with it - not your name, not your notes, not anything you do in the app.
Why there is no confirmation mail. From the app the address comes out of a Google sign-in, so Google has already checked that it belongs to the person using it; a message asking them to confirm what Google just confirmed adds nothing. From the website we take the address as it is typed. In both cases every message we send carries an unsubscribe link, and one click removes the address for good.
What we keep. The address, the date you gave it, and where it came from - the form on the website, or a sign-in in the app. The last two are what let us show that you agreed, which the law requires. Beside them is one working value: a one-way fingerprint of the secret in your unsubscribe link, which is how that link is checked without our storing the link itself. It says nothing about you, and it goes when the address does.
How long. Until you unsubscribe, until you ask us to delete it, or until the list has done what it exists for and is closed. Unsubscribing deletes it at once. The record that you agreed is kept for as long as the address is, and goes with it.
What we send. Word that a version for a platform is ready, and occasionally something new worth knowing about. Not more than that.
Leaving. Every message carries an unsubscribe link, and one click is enough. You do not have to give a reason and you do not have to write to us. When you leave, the address is deleted.
The legal part. The basis is your consent, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR together with § 7 UWG. You may withdraw it at any time, and withdrawing it does not affect anything that was lawful before. The list is stored on Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt, Germany, under a data processing agreement. We do not sell it, rent it, or give it to anyone else.
Reporting a problem
If something in Just-Notes does not work, you can tell us at just-notes.app/report/. The "Report a problem" row in the app's Settings opens that page in your browser.
What we receive. The words you type, and your email address if you give it because you would like an answer. Opened from the app, the page also sends which version of the app you have and on which system. The app puts these in the page's address after a #, which a browser does not send when it opens a page, so they reach us only inside a report you choose to send. The app itself sends nothing.
Where it goes. Each report arrives as one email in our mailbox, hello@just-notes.app, which Google Workspace hosts for us. On the way it passes through Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt, Germany, and is not kept there. To stop the form being abused, the service counts how many reports arrive from one connection in an hour; that count is kept for two hours under a one-way fingerprint of your IP address, never the address itself.
How long. We delete the email when the problem is dealt with, and no later than twelve months after it arrived.
The legal part. The basis is our legitimate interest in finding and fixing what goes wrong and in answering you, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Children
Just-Notes is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, including children.
Your rights
European law gives you the right to access, correct, export and erase the personal data a company holds about you. If you never used the email form or reported a problem, we hold none, so there is nothing for us to send or delete. If you did, write to hello@just-notes.app and we will send you what we have, correct it, or delete it.
Your notes are a separate matter and a simpler one: they are yours, on your device and, if you use sync, in your own Google Drive. Export them whenever you like, delete them whenever you like, and neither action needs our permission or our knowledge.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority. The one responsible for us is the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen, Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hannover, Germany. You may complain there whether or not you have spoken to us first.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change that affects what leaves your device will be announced in the app, not only here.
Contact
hello@just-notes.app