What stays on your Mac
- Journal entries, titles, tags, and attached photos
- Memories, reflections, and local AI context
- Location metadata saved with entries
- Downloaded local AI packages and app data
Privacy
A journal built to keep your life yours.
Harbour is designed around a simple idea: your journal should belong to you. That means local storage by default, optional features that stay optional, and plain-language boundaries around what the app does and does not send outside your Mac.
What can involve outside services
- Apple MapKit for optional maps and place search
- A one-time model download if you choose to install local AI packages; the download does not send your journal or personal information outside the app
- Anonymous beta usage reporting during the beta program
- Website analytics and ad measurement for page visits, campaign attribution, and beta application conversion events
- Email or support flows when you choose to contact us
Clear boundaries, in plain language.
If you are deciding whether Harbour is trustworthy enough for your private writing, these are the boundaries that matter most.
Your journal content is not used to train AI models
Harbour does not send your journal content, chat history, or reflections away to train outside AI models. That material is also not used to train the local model on your Mac.
Maps and location features are optional
If you use map view or manually search for a place, Harbour uses Apple MapKit in the same general way other Mac apps use Apple’s map services. If you attach a photo with location metadata, Harbour can offer that photo location as an optional suggestion for the entry. Those requests go through Apple MapKit, not to Foss Creative.
Anonymized beta reporting is limited
The beta can collect anonymized product usage data such as app version, macOS version, chip family, RAM bucket, feature usage counts, and thumbs up or thumbs down feedback on AI replies. Usage data never includes journal entries, chat history, reflections, names, locations, or photo contents.
Website analytics are for campaign measurement
The Harbour website may use analytics and ad measurement tools to understand which pages are visited, which campaigns brought people to the site, and whether visitors continue to the beta application. This website measurement does not include journal content because journal content is not entered on the website.
Backups and exports stay in your control
If you back up your Mac with Time Machine or another full-drive backup tool, Harbour is backed up with it. You can also export your journal into a folder and keep that export anywhere you want as an additional backup.
Read the beta expectations
See what early testers should expect, including rough edges, telemetry, and response flow.
Visit supportFind contact details, import and backup help, and what to include in beta feedback.
Apply to join the betaIf the privacy approach fits what you want, you can apply directly from the beta page.