Your information
A private place to think.
Locky is a Mac app that reads what you give it about your project and picks the one thing worth doing next. This page says what it keeps, where it keeps it, and who helps run it.
What stays on your Mac
The originals of everything you give Locky stay on your Mac: screenshots, voice notes, images, documents, and the copies of files you drag in, which Locky keeps in its own folder in your Mac's Application Support folder. If you link a project folder, Locky only reads it and never writes to it. Previews and thumbnails are made on your Mac.
What Locky keeps on its servers
To understand your project, Locky sends an item to an AI model to read, then keeps what it learned instead of the item: the text in it, a transcript of a voice note, a short description and a summary. An original is uploaded only while a model reads it, and Locky does not keep it.
Locky also keeps your account, your project's name, what it understands about your project and what you confirmed, your answers to its questions, and each A+ and wrap with its time by app.
When you give Locky a link, it may read that page and related public pages to learn about your project. It only looks into what you give it, and never searches for your name on its own.
What Locky reads on your Mac
Locky asks for each permission the first time it needs one, and Settings, Privacy shows the state of app time, screenshots and the microphone.
- App time (Accessibility), at your first lock in. While you are locked in, Locky notes which app is in front for the time by app in your wrap, and with app time on, also its window title, the file open in it and the page's address.
- Notifications, on Locky's own card at your first timed break, for today's A+ in the morning and the end of a break.
- Screen Recording, at your first screenshot. Locky uses it only for the screenshots you take with it.
- Microphone, at your first voice note. Locky listens only while you record.
Outside a lock in, Locky only checks whether another app is using the microphone or a camera, or is full screen, so it stays out of the way. It doesn't hear, see or keep any of it.
Locky reads. It never clicks or types for you, and never records your keystrokes.
Others locking in
While you are locked in, Locky shows how many people are locking in right now. The count is anonymous. It carries no names and nothing about what anyone is working on.
Who helps run Locky
- Convex stores your account and project data and runs Locky's server code.
- Vercel AI Gateway passes items to the AI models that read them, with zero data retention turned on.
- Google runs Sign in with Google.
- Apple runs Sign in with Apple.
- Resend sends the sign-in codes you ask for by email.
- Cloudflare serves the app download and update checks.
- Vercel hosts this website.
Locky shows no ads and does not sell your data.
Updates
Locky checks releases.locky.so for new versions. The check sends the app's version and nothing about you or your project.
Deleting your data
Settings, Account deletes your account and everything Locky keeps about your project on its servers. Locky's folder on your Mac is yours to keep or delete.
Questions
Locky is made by Forma Limited. Write to phil@forma.city with any question about your data.
Updated 6 November 2026.