We don’t collect anything.
Incise is a native macOS text editor that runs entirely on your Mac. It does not collect, transmit, store, or sell any personal data. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no telemetry, and no advertising or tracking of any kind.
Your files stay yours. The documents and folders you open or edit are read from and written to your own disk. Their contents are never sent to us or to any third party.
The details
No data collection
Incise gathers no personal information, usage data, diagnostics, or identifiers. It never transmits your data off your Mac.
Local file access only
The app accesses only the files and folders you explicitly open, and only to display and edit them on your device. That access is never used to transmit your content.
Optional agent integration
If you connect an AI agent, Incise talks to it over a local connection on your Mac only. Incise sends your code to no one, not to Anthropic and not to us. See agents and MCP below.
No third parties
Incise includes no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking SDKs. There are no external services receiving your information.
Agents and MCP
Incise can act as an MCP server so an AI agent you already run (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Zed, and others) can see what you have open instead of you pasting it. That is the one feature where anything leaves the editor at all, so here is exactly what it does. Full details.
- Off until you turn it on. No port is opened, and no agent can reach the editor, until you enable the integration yourself.
- Local only. The listener binds to
127.0.0.1, the loopback interface. Nothing on your network, your Wi-Fi, or the internet can connect to it. - Authenticated. Every request must carry a token unique to your Mac, generated on your Mac and stored there. You can regenerate it at any time in Settings, which immediately invalidates the old one. Web pages are blocked outright: requests carrying a browser
Originare rejected. - What a connected agent can read: the text you have selected and the path of that file, the list of open tabs, and the workspace folder you opened. It can ask Incise to open a file or , which you accept or reject. It cannot read files you have not opened, and it cannot write to disk behind a rejected diff.
- Incise still sends nothing anywhere. It answers the agent running on your Mac; it makes no network requests of its own. What that agent then does with what it read, including sending it to its own provider, is governed by that agent and its own privacy policy, not by Incise. Choosing which agent to connect is choosing whose terms apply.
Nothing here is logged, retained, or relayed by us. Incise keeps no record of what an agent asked for, and there is no server of ours involved at any point.
Questions about privacy? Email incise@incise.dev. If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted on this page.