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Earlyn

Nothing leaves your Mac.

Earlyn keeps everything it records on your Mac: the database is encrypted with SQLCipher, screen pictures are sealed with AES-GCM, the keys stay in your keychain, and the app makes no network request unless you start one.

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Encrypted at rest

WhatWhereProtection
Text of every moment, transcripts, summariesearlyn.sqliteSQLCipher with a random 256-bit key
Screen picturessegments/AES-GCM per five-minute file
Meeting audio (only if you keep it)meetings/AES-GCM
The keysYour Mac's keychainNever written anywhere else
Everything lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Earlyn. Backups are one file encrypted with a passphrase you choose.

Never captured

  • Apps you exclude, removed at the source.
  • Private and incognito browser windows.
  • Password fields, including masked web inputs.
  • Moments that contain secrets such as API keys, tokens, private keys or card numbers.
  • Window titles and websites you list.

What can leave, and only when you ask

RequestWhenWhat is sent
Model downloadYou press DownloadA plain request for the file; nothing about you
Cloud modelYou chose Claude or OpenAI and saved your keyYour question and the memories retrieved for it
Connected appAn agent's destination, or you press SendThat agent's output or that answer
Apple's translation filesYou press Download for a pairmacOS fetches the language files
There are no analytics, no crash reporters and no update checks in the app.

You stay in control

  • Recording is off until you turn it on, and pauses from the menu bar at any time.
  • Delete the last hour, a single memory or everything; deleted means removed from disk.
  • Export everything as plain files whenever you like.

The legal version is the privacy policy.

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