Apple Pencil app without any analytics or syncing or network use
I am looking for an Apple Pencil app that does not go to the internet for any reason.
- I want the convenience of the Apple Pencil.
- I don’t want data syncing of any sort
- Same with any analytics
The primary goal is no potential for my notes to be seen by a third party.
What apps allow note taking with these requirements?
I routinely take notes with Concepts app while offline, and as there's neither built in OCR nor forced-synching of anything, my notes are private and secure.
Also worth noting both Apple notes w/out synch and also Pages with a password lock per file can be considered pretty secure.
Apple notes is the clear defacto standard for this use case.
- Don’t turn on iCloud syncing for notes or don’t sign in to iCloud and you have pretty much all the items you mentioned.
- If you have iCloud backups, by default that does save your content. However if you disable notes to backup, Apple documents that they delete your copies in the cloud when you elect to not back up that data so even if you mistakenly allow that, you should have reasonable control over your data retentionand know what to expect.