QuickMark is a Markdown editor and previewer for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It reads and writes Markdown files on your device and displays them in a window or Quick Look panel. We designed it to keep your work private.
What QuickMark does NOT do
- No advertising and no tracking. No ads, no advertising SDKs, no profile of you, nothing tracked across apps or websites. QuickMark does count which features get used, anonymously and with no third-party analytics service involved; the section below lists exactly what that covers.
- No selling or sharing your data. We don't sell, rent, or hand your information to data brokers.
- Your documents stay on your device by default. The contents of the Markdown files you open or edit are never uploaded or analysed, unless you choose to use the optional Publish to Web feature described below.
Anonymous usage statistics
To decide what to build next, QuickMark counts a short list of events: that a document rendered for the first time, which feature was used (export to PDF, publish, and so on), that the upgrade screen appeared and what was chosen there, and a rough band for how many documents have been opened (1, 2–5, 6–20, 21+). That is the whole list.
Never included: the contents of your documents, their titles, file names or paths, your IP address, your Apple ID, your email, or anything from a QuickMark account. Events carry no clock time, so the calendar day is the finest resolution that exists on our server.
Each installation makes a random identifier, so "40 people used export" can be told apart from "one person used it 40 times". It isn't derived from your hardware and is never joined to an account, a purchase, or a published page; deleting the app discards it. The data goes to our own server. No analytics company, ad network, or data broker receives it, and it is never used for advertising or profiling.
QuickMark works fully without an account. The only times any information leaves your device are the specific, limited cases below, and most of them only happen when you ask for them.
Your files stay on your device
QuickMark only opens the files you choose to open. Those files, and your edits, are kept on your device. We don't copy them to our servers, run them through any cloud service, or sync them ourselves. (You're free to keep your files in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or any folder you like; that's your setup, not something QuickMark does.) Publishing to the web is the one exception, and it only ever happens when you start it.
Crash and error reports
To find and fix bugs, QuickMark sends anonymous crash and error reports. They carry technical details only:
- What is sent: the technical details of the crash or error, the app version, your device model, the operating-system version, and a randomly generated identifier that is not tied to your Apple ID or any personal account.
- What is never sent: the contents of your documents, file names, file paths, your IP address, or any personal information.
- Why: only to diagnose and fix problems. This is never used for advertising, profiling, or tracking.
When you send feedback
If you contact us from inside the app, we receive the email address and the message you type, along with your app and operating-system version so we can help. The contents of your documents are never included. We use this only to reply to you and to improve QuickMark.
Publishing to the web (optional)
QuickMark includes an optional Publish to Web feature. Nothing is uploaded until you choose Publish on a specific document.
- What is sent and stored: when you publish a document, its
Markdown content and title are stored on our server so the document can be
served as a web page at a link such as
quickmarkmd.com/s/<id>. - Who can see it: anyone who has the link. Published pages are unlisted and kept out of search engines, but the link itself is public, so treat a published link as shareable.
- No account needed: publishing requires no sign-up. An identifier generated on your device lets you update or remove what you published.
- Updating and unpublishing: you can re-publish to update a page, or unpublish to remove it, after which the link no longer works.
- No visitor tracking: published pages carry no ads and no third-party analytics, and we don't track readers across sites.
- Your choice: documents you never publish stay entirely on your device.
Optional account
You can create an optional account (Sign in with Apple, or email and password) for one purpose only: to manage the pages you've published across your devices. It is never required to use QuickMark or to publish. If you sign up with email, we store that email address to identify your account; Sign in with Apple may choose not to share your email at all.
You can delete your account at any time from Settings › Account in the app. Deleting it permanently removes your account and email address from our server and takes down every page published with it, and their links stop working right away.
Keeping things safe
To protect optional accounts and the contact form from abuse (such as password guessing and spam), our server keeps a brief, short-lived record of requests: the type of request and whether it succeeded. Any email or IP address involved is converted into a scrambled form that can't be read back, so we don't keep the original. Passwords are never logged, and none of this is used for advertising or tracking.
Purchases
Any purchase you make is handled entirely by Apple's App Store. QuickMark never sees or stores your card or payment details.
What QuickMark can access
QuickMark runs in Apple's secure App Sandbox and asks for as little as possible: it can read and write only the files you explicitly open, and it uses a network connection only for the things described above: usage statistics, crash reports, feedback you send, the optional account, and Publish to Web.
Children
QuickMark is appropriate for all ages and does not knowingly target or collect data from children.
Changes to this policy
If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted at this URL with a new "Last updated" date.
Contact
Questions or concerns about privacy? Email support@quickmarkmd.com.
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