Privacy Policy

Ghostless is a Mac app for writing screenplays, with an optional writing coach that reads your scenes and points things out. It never writes any of your script. Ghostless is made by Can Yıldız. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.

The short version

Your scripts stay on your Mac. If you turn on the writing coach, the text of the scenes it reads is sent to be read and is not kept by Ghostless. There are no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking.

Your scripts

Ghostless opens and saves the files you choose. It keeps a few things in its own folder on your Mac (~/Library/Containers/com.insanialabs.ghostless), and none of them leave your Mac:

• Snapshots you save, and the copy it keeps of a script before your first change each day (the last 14 for each script).
• Mood board pictures you add to a script's board, and the board's layout.
• Notes you dismiss and notes you've already seen, kept only as scrambled fingerprints (hashes), not as text from your script.
• The coach's readings of your scenes, as numbers only, so it doesn't read an unchanged scene twice.
• Your answers about the coach's questions (useful or not useful), which only change the order questions appear in.
• Your settings.

The Mac also keeps its usual version history of your files (File ▸ Revert To ▸ Browse All Versions).

The checks for format, spelling and names run on your Mac and send nothing anywhere.

When you drag a picture onto a mood board from a web page, Ghostless downloads it from the address it came from, as your browser would; that website sees the request. Pictures from your Mac are copied, not uploaded anywhere.

The writing coach (only if you turn it on)

The coach is off until you turn it on, in the welcome screen or in Settings ▸ Writing Coach. With it on:

• What is sent: the text of each scene it reads, including dialogue and the names of the characters in it, and for some checks single sentences or lines from the scene. By default this happens only when you ask (Coach ▸ Read the Script Now). If you choose “As I write”, changed scenes are sent after you pause typing.
• Where it goes: over an encrypted connection to Ghostless's server (hosted by Fly.io in the United States), which passes it on to TypeSafe's Jev, an AI service that reads the scene and answers Ghostless's questions about it. Jev's answers are numbers and choices; nothing it returns is written into your script.
• What Ghostless keeps: nothing. Ghostless's server does not store or log the text it passes on. Fly.io, which hosts the server, handles the network traffic and may keep ordinary connection records such as IP addresses and times.
• What TypeSafe keeps: TypeSafe's privacy policy says it will not train or fine-tune any AI or machine-learning models on what it is sent, and will not pass it to anyone other than its own service providers. TypeSafe does not publish a fixed deletion time: it keeps data for as long as is reasonably necessary to provide the service. That is their policy as of September 19, 2026; the current one is at typesafe.ai/legal/privacy-policy.

Some explanations (“Why?”, “Why this line?”, “Show me where”) come from Apple Intelligence's on-device model when your Mac has it. They are made on your Mac and nothing is sent for them.

Turning the coach off stops everything above at once.

Checking your purchase

The coach runs on a paid service, so Ghostless's server checks that each copy was bought before it reads anything:

• From the Mac App Store: the app sends the server Apple's signed record of your purchase (an “app transaction”, which holds a purchase identifier and date, but not your name or Apple Account). The server checks Apple's signature and does not store it.
• From our website (Polar): you enter the licence key from your receipt. When you activate it, the app tells Polar the key and your Mac's name, so you can see and free your activations. The server checks the key with Polar each time it starts a session and does not store it. The key itself is kept in your Mac's keychain.

To keep one purchase from using more than its share, the server counts reads per purchase for up to a day, in memory only.

Purchases themselves are handled by Apple or by Polar (as merchant of record), under their own privacy policies. Ghostless never sees your payment details.

No accounts, analytics or tracking

Ghostless has no accounts or sign-in. It contains no analytics, advertising or tracking code, and it doesn't sell or share information with anyone. The Help menu's links open this website in your browser.

Deleting your data

Delete snapshots in File ▸ Snapshots…. Forget your answers about questions in Settings ▸ Writing Coach. To remove everything Ghostless keeps, quit it, delete the app, and delete its folder at ~/Library/Containers/com.insanialabs.ghostless. Nothing to delete is kept by Ghostless anywhere else.

Children

Ghostless is not directed at children and doesn't knowingly collect information from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about privacy in Ghostless: cnyldz@gmail.com