Privacy

Local-first

Novelist is a desktop application. Your documents live on your disk. Novelist does not upload, sync, or mirror your documents unless you explicitly place them in a sync folder, export them to another service, or configure a third-party plugin that does so.

This website (novelist.dev)

The site is purely static:

• no analytics, no tracking scripts;
• no cookies;
• no visitor data is collected.

The GitHub star count you see on the landing page is fetched from GitHub's public API at build time — it is public data and has nothing to do with you.

Plugins

Plugin metadata comes from the Novelist-marketplace repository — plain text, publicly browsable. When you click "Install in Novelist":

1. your browser hands the request to the app via the novelist://install-plugin/<id> deep link;
2. the app downloads the plugin ZIP directly from the plugin author's GitHub Releases;
3. none of this touches a Novelist server, because we don't run one.

Updates and telemetry

Novelist ships with no telemetry and no crash reporter. Version checks (if you opt in) only query GitHub's public Releases API.

Contributions

Issues, pull requests, and discussions happen on GitHub and are governed by GitHub's own privacy policy.

Contact

For privacy questions, please open an issue in the Novelist repo.