Privacy

Sunrise is built for solo professionals who care about their data. Here is exactly what happens on your machine, and what doesn't.

Sunrise works without seeing your screen

Screen awareness is an optional power-up, never a requirement. The full product, check-ins, voice, goals, streaks, and recaps, works with zero permissions granted.

Nothing sensitive lives on your device

Sunrise’s voice and reasoning are included in your subscription and run on our secure infrastructure. There is nothing to set up and nothing sensitive stored on your machine, so there is nothing to leak.

App-usage tracking stays local

If you turn on app-usage context, the breakdown of where your time went is computed and stored entirely on your Mac. It is never uploaded.

Screenshots are opt-in, used once, never stored

Screen awareness is off by default. If you turn it on, a screenshot is captured locally, sent once to inform that single check-in, and never written to disk or kept by us. You can turn it off in one click, anytime.

What leaves your device

Everything optional is off until you turn it on. When something is sent, it is sent for a single check-in and is not used to train models.

Your goals and check-in replies

Sent to the model (via our secure proxy) to generate that turn. Not used to train models.

Goals, history & settings (if signed in)

Encrypted sync blob stored on Cloudflare KV so your data follows you across Macs. Opt-in: only happens when you sign in with Google. Sign out to remove it.

A screenshot (only if you enable it)

Sent once for a single check-in, then discarded. Never stored.

Calendar events (only if you connect it)

Read locally; event titles/times are included as context for a check-in.

GitHub activity (only if you connect it)

Commit counts and repo names are read to ground progress nudges.

App-usage minutes (only if you enable it)

Stays on your device. Aggregate minutes may inform a nudge; the raw log never leaves.

Retention

Without an account, everything stays on your Mac — delete the app and it goes with it. If you sign in with Google, your goals, history, and settings are also stored in Cloudflare KV so they sync across your devices. You can sign out at any time to remove the server-side copy. Screenshots are never retained by us. We do not sell your data, and we do not train models on it.

Last updated June 2026. This page describes how Sunrise is built. As the product evolves we will keep it current, and we will never quietly widen what leaves your device.