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SourceInk privacy policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

SourceInk is a handwriting diary app for Windows, built by Dripstatic Studios and published on the Microsoft Store by Lloyd's Local Services LLC. This page covers SourceInk 1.6.9 and explains what happens to what you write and draw.

Your diary stays on your PC

Your pages, drawings, settings and notes are saved only on your PC, in your Windows user folder (%LocalAppData%\Inkwell). When SourceInk is installed from the Microsoft Store, Windows keeps this folder inside the app's own data folder. We don't run any server that receives your writing. SourceInk does not require a SourceInk account and has no automatic cloud sync, ads, analytics or tracking. Optional cloud AI uses your own account with the provider you choose.

The diary works fully without AI. AI replies are optional. You can choose local AI, connect a cloud service, or use diary-only mode with no AI replies.

You choose when to save pages

Ink fade and automatic journal page saving can be switched on or off from the page toolbar. Profiles without these preferences start with both off. With automatic page saving off, unsaved writing, drawings and AI replies stay in the running session until you choose Save page or an explicit Keep action. A pause, changing modes, requesting feedback or closing does not silently save journal pages. Closing unsaved work offers Save, Discard or Cancel. Discard scratch removes unsaved session work and keeps your saved journal pages.

Save page does not ask AI. Read writing can ask your connected AI, with the destination and approval rules below, even while automatic page saving is off. Existing saved pages are not deleted by the new controls. Settings, purchase and trial state, ordinary diagnostic metadata, and reports or tester notes you deliberately create remain separate from automatic journal page saving. Diagnostic logs do not contain page text.

Sealed storage

If you use your own API key or connect free cloud AI through OpenRouter sign-in, the access key is stored encrypted with Windows protected storage (DPAPI) for your Windows account. We do not receive your access key. OpenRouter sign-in happens in your browser; SourceInk does not receive your OpenRouter password. Signing out removes the saved cloud key from SourceInk on this PC. You can also revoke the app key in your OpenRouter account.

Pages are stored as plain files unless you turn on the optional “sealed to you” setting. You'll find it on the back page under PAGES ON DISK, and it's offered while the Windows Hello lock is on. With it on, each page and drawing saved on disk is encrypted with DPAPI for your Windows account. Export always writes plain files, so keep exported files somewhere safe.

Where your words go when SourceInk writes back

You choose where AI replies come from. Before anything is sent, SourceInk shows a “Sends to” line naming where it will go.

  • Local mode (Ollama on this PC). Your page goes to Ollama, a free program running on your own computer, and stays on your PC. If you change the Ollama address under “advanced” to another computer, the “Sends to” line says so, and your page goes to that computer instead.
  • Free cloud AI (OpenRouter sign-in). If you turn this on, SourceInk opens OpenRouter in your browser so you can sign in and authorize an app key. Approved page text and recent conversation, or the drawing image you ask about, go to OpenRouter and the model provider it selects. SourceInk requests only the free-model router and does not add paid-model fallbacks. Free-model availability and provider limits vary. OpenRouter and its model providers have their own retention and data-use practices; some providers may use inputs and outputs for training. Review OpenRouter's privacy policy and the provider policies before sending sensitive content. SourceInk's existing AI trial and one-time unlock still apply.
  • Key mode (a service you pick). You can enter a key for an AI service, for example OpenAI, Google, Groq or one you type in. SourceInk then sends that service the text of the page you ask it to answer, or a PNG picture of your drawing in Draw mode. So that the diary can remember, your recent pages and its replies are sent along with it, and the preview tells you how many. That service's own privacy policy then applies, and it may charge you for use.

In key mode and free cloud mode you see a preview of exactly what will be sent before it goes, until you choose Always allow for that service. The three choices are:

  • Send once asks again next time.
  • Always allow stops asking for that one service only, so later pages go to it without a preview. Any other service asks again.
  • Use local instead switches to Ollama on your PC.

Press Esc to send nothing. To stop sending at any time, switch to the local AI or turn AI replies off in “connect a brain”.

Voice typing

SourceInk's voice typing button uses the speech service built into Windows. On Windows 11 that service is Microsoft's online speech recognition: when you use voice typing, your audio is sent to Microsoft to be turned into text, under Microsoft's privacy statement. SourceInk itself never records or receives your audio, and voice typing is off unless you tap the button and speak. If you do not want audio sent to Microsoft, type or write instead — every other part of SourceInk works without it.

Nothing else connects

Apart from the AI route you choose and Windows voice typing (above), SourceInk only opens web pages in your browser when you click a link, such as the Ollama download page or a service's key page. To be exact about the AI routes: the local Ollama route sends nothing off your PC; the OpenRouter route sends the content you submit to OpenRouter and the model providers behind it; a compatible service you configure yourself receives what you send it. SourceInk has no other network features: no sync, no ads, no analytics, no tracking.

Copying a picture

Copy picture is an action you choose in Draw. It puts an image of the current artwork and drawing text on the Windows clipboard, without the toolbar, guides or unrelated journal history. It does not create a journal page, ask AI or send content from SourceInk. Windows clipboard history, clipboard device sync, or the app you paste into may retain or transmit the image according to their settings and policies.

Purchases

SourceInk is free to download. An optional one-time unlock ($9.99 in the US; the Store shows the price for your market), where offered, is sold only through the Microsoft Store. Microsoft handles the payment under its own terms and privacy statement. We don't receive your card or payment details, only the Store's confirmation that your Windows account owns the unlock. SourceInk keeps that confirmation (encrypted for your Windows account) and a count of your free AI replies in its settings on your PC, so the unlock works offline. Neither is sent to us.

AI replies can be wrong

Replies are written by a language model. They can be inaccurate or upsetting, and they are not professional, medical or crisis advice.

Reporting a reply

You can report any reply, either with “report” under the reply or with “report the last reply” on the back of the diary. A report is saved on your PC. It only reaches us if you choose “save and email it to us”. That opens your own email app with the report filled in, so you can read it before you send it. We use emailed reports only to make replies safer, and we'll delete one if you ask.

Tester notes

Tester notes are saved on your PC and are never sent anywhere.

Forget and removal

The clear-history / forget-our-pages action erases your saved diary history on this PC after a second confirmation tap. Uninstalling the Microsoft Store version also removes its data folder, so export first if you want to keep your pages. If you installed a copy another way, uninstall it and then delete the %LocalAppData%\Inkwell folder if it's still there.

Children

SourceInk isn't directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above.

Contact

Lloyd's Local Services LLC (publisher of SourceInk; Dripstatic Studios is its studio brand): kyle@dripstaticstudios.com

Previously published at lloydslocalservices.com/sourceink-privacy.html. This address is now the canonical copy.