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Privacy.
Kloni is built on a simple principle: your thoughts are yours. Your maps stay where you keep them. There is no account to create, no Kloni server, and no tracking of any kind. This policy covers Kloni for Mac and Kloni for iPhone.
What Kloni collects
During ordinary use, Kloni collects nothing. Your mind maps, notes, tags, and attachments are stored in your library: on the Mac, the folder you choose; on the iPhone, your iCloud Drive or the phone itself. Kloni never sends this content to us, or to anyone else unless you share it yourself. If you keep that folder in a service that syncs it, such as iCloud Drive or Dropbox, that service’s own privacy terms apply.
The only situations in which Kloni itself sends anything over the network are described in the sections below.
Apple Intelligence
Kloni’s Apple Intelligence commands, such as Break into Subtasks, the Daily Brief or searching in plain language, use Apple’s on-device model. They run on your Mac or iPhone, and nothing they read is sent to us, to Apple or to anyone else. What they suggest waits for you to keep it or undo it, and one switch in Settings turns them all off.
Summarize Web Page is the one command that uses the network: it fetches the page from its own site, as importing a link does (see below), and then reads it on your device. Apple’s own Writing Tools, which work in Kloni’s notes on the Mac, are part of macOS and covered by Apple’s privacy policy.
Feedback submissions
Kloni for Mac includes an optional in-app feedback form (Kloni for
iPhone has none; use the support page instead). When you submit
feedback, the following information is sent to
Formspree (formspree.io), the
third-party service that delivers feedback messages to us:
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Your message | Yes | The text you type into the feedback form. |
| Category | Yes | The kind of feedback you pick: bug report, feature request, improvement or other. |
| Email address | No | Only if you choose to provide one, so we can follow up. |
| App version | No | Included unless you untick “Include system info,” which is on by default. |
| macOS (Darwin) version | No | Included unless you untick “Include system info,” which is on by default. |
| Electron version | No | Included unless you untick “Include system info,” which is on by default. |
| Platform & architecture | No | Included unless you untick “Include system info,” which is on by default. |
| Submission timestamp | No | Included unless you untick “Include system info,” which is on by default. |
Formspree processes this data on our behalf solely to deliver the
message. Their privacy policy is available at
formspree.io/privacy. We do not use this data for
any purpose other than responding to your feedback.
Fetching from a link you provide
When you paste a web address into a node, or capture one with Quick
Capture, Kloni fetches that page to read its title and short
description, which become the node's label and note. For a YouTube
link it asks YouTube for the video's title and thumbnail and reads the
video page for its chapters. Importing from a link works the same way,
except that Kloni reads the page's content in order to build the outline
you asked for. A Google Maps link is read from the address itself; only a
shortened maps.app.goo.gl link is followed over the network
to find where it points. On the iPhone, sharing a link to Kloni reads
the page’s title in the same way, and its Summarize with Apple
Intelligence switch fetches the page to summarize it on the phone. No identifying information is attached to these
requests beyond what a standard web request contains — the address
itself and a user-agent string that may name Kloni and its version.
All of this happens only when you paste, capture, share or import a link yourself; nothing is fetched in the background. Titles and notes are saved with your map, and Kloni retains no record of the request. A video's thumbnail, or a picture you add by web address, stays a link: Kloni loads it from its own server each time the map is shown. Note that the server at the address you provide will receive and may log these requests according to their own privacy practices.
Third parties
Kloni does not share data with any third party except as described in this policy. No analytics services, advertising networks, or crash-reporting tools are embedded in the app.
Your data and how to remove it
All mind maps, settings, and session state are stored on your device, and your maps also in your own iCloud Drive if you turn on Sync with iPhone. On the Mac, you can delete them at any time by removing the relevant folders:
~/Documents/KloniMaps
(or your chosen library folder)
~/Library/Application Support/kloni
Uninstalling Kloni does not automatically remove these folders. For a complete removal, delete them manually after uninstalling.
On the iPhone, deleting Kloni removes its settings and any maps kept on the phone itself. Maps in iCloud Drive stay there, shared with your Mac, until you delete them in Kloni.
Children's privacy
Kloni does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Because the app collects no personal data during ordinary use, it is suitable for all ages.
Changes to this policy
If we make material changes to this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of Kloni after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.