Privacy
The short version: your writing lives on your Mac and we never see it. We run no analytics, set no cookies, and sell no data — on this website or in the app. The app makes exactly two kinds of network call, and both are listed below.
Your scripts
Slate saves your work to a folder you choose on your own Mac, as plain files you can open in any editor. Nothing you write is uploaded to us — we have no server that could hold it. If you point Slate at a cloud folder (Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive) for a backup copy or for co-writing, that's your account with that provider, under their privacy policy, and entirely under your control.
Everything the app sends over the network
Slate makes exactly two kinds of network call. This is the whole list:
- License activation and renewal, to
slatescript.app— when you activate, the app sends the purchase email you typed (or the license from your activation email) and gets back a signed license token. After that it checks in at most once a day to confirm the subscription is still active. Nothing about your writing goes with it. - Update checks, to
github.com— the app downloads the list of Slate releases to see whether a newer version exists, and downloads the update from there. The request carries nothing about you or your writing.
That's the complete list. There is no telemetry, no usage tracking, no crash reporting, no "anonymous analytics," and no third-party code that phones home. When you write at 2 a.m., nobody knows but you.
Co-writing and Obsidian notes aren't network features at all: they're folders on your Mac. If you keep that folder in Dropbox or iCloud Drive, syncing it is your cloud provider's job, not Slate's.
If something goes wrong, Help → Report a Problem opens an email to us with the app version, your macOS version and Slate's latest crash log. You see all of it, and can edit it, before you send. Nothing is sent on its own.
Slate 2 also loaded its screenplay font from Google Fonts when it started. Slate 3 carries the font inside the app.
This website
- We use no analytics and no advertising trackers, and we set no cookies.
- The site is hosted on Netlify, which keeps standard server logs (IP address, pages requested) to run the service.
- The site loads its fonts from Google Fonts.
- If you buy Slate, checkout happens on Stripe. Your card number goes to Stripe, never to us — we receive only your email address and subscription status, which is what activates the app and lets us help you at support. Stripe also emails your receipt.
If you write to support@slatescript.app, we use your message and address to reply, and for nothing else. No lists, no marketing follow-ups.
What we'd hand over if you asked
Everything we have about you is: your purchase email and Stripe subscription status. Want it corrected or deleted (along with cancelling), or just want to know what's there? Email support and a human will handle it.
Changes
If this policy ever changes in a way that matters, the date above changes with it, and the plain-English promise stays.