What Makes a Notes App Private?
A private notes app should make it clear where your writing is processed, how it is synchronised, whether it is used for advertising or analytics, and whether you can take your data with you. Onuri is built around those questions rather than treating privacy as an optional mode.
Your note content is processed on your device for features such as entity recognition. The app does not include advertising trackers or third-party analytics SDKs, and Onuri does not operate a server that needs to receive the contents of your notes for the core note-taking experience.
The public Onuri website is separate from the app: optional Google Analytics on the website is only loaded after consent. Your private notes inside the iPhone app are not website analytics data.
On-Device Processing for Personal Writing
Onuri uses native Apple technologies to recognise useful context such as people, places, dates and topics. That processing happens on device, which allows notes to become connected without sending the text to an Onuri-operated analysis service.
Local processing also supports a fast, direct writing experience. You can capture a thought first and let the app identify useful context in the background rather than waiting on a remote AI workflow or manually categorising the note yourself.
That architecture underpins Onuri’s automatic second brain: the value comes from connections across your own writing while the core processing remains close to the data.
Private iCloud Sync Across Your Apple Devices
Onuri can synchronise notes through your personal iCloud account using CloudKit. This gives your writing a private Apple-account-based sync path instead of requiring a separate Onuri account and password for note storage.
iCloud sync is useful when you want continuity across supported Apple devices while keeping the app’s architecture simple. The important distinction is that Onuri does not need to build a behavioural profile around your writing in order to provide core note-taking and connection features.
Data Ownership and Portable TXT/CSV Export
Privacy also means being able to leave. A notes app should not make years of writing useful only inside one interface. Onuri includes export options for standard TXT and CSV formats so your notes can remain readable and portable outside the app.
Export helps with personal backups, long-term archiving, analysis in other tools, or simply the reassurance that your writing is not trapped in an opaque proprietary format. Your notes are your material, not a mechanism for lock-in.
No Ads, No Behavioural Tracking, No Attention Business Model
Onuri’s free note-taking experience is not funded by advertising. The app does not need an advertising identifier, behavioural tracking profile, or third-party analytics SDK to make the product work.
The free experience includes unlimited notes and core automatic connection features. An optional Premium subscription adds expanded Insights, Ongoing and Done statuses, additional themes and matching app icons. That direct product model keeps the incentive straightforward: build a useful private notes app rather than monetise the content or behaviour around your notes.
If privacy is one part of a broader knowledge workflow, the personal knowledge management guide explains how Onuri combines ownership with connected rediscovery.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Onuri a private notes app for iPhone?
Yes. Onuri is designed around on-device note processing, private iCloud sync, no advertising trackers, no third-party analytics SDKs inside the app, and portable TXT/CSV export.
Does Onuri upload my notes to its own servers for analysis?
The core note experience uses on-device processing for recognising connections in your writing. Notes can sync through your personal iCloud account rather than an Onuri-operated note-content server.
Does Onuri contain ads or trackers?
No. The iPhone app does not use advertising trackers or third-party analytics SDKs. The public website uses optional Google Analytics only after website visitors give consent.
Can I export my notes?
Yes. Onuri supports export to standard TXT and CSV formats so your writing can remain portable outside the app.
Is private iCloud sync available?
Yes. Onuri supports iCloud sync through the user’s personal Apple account using CloudKit.
Your notes should remain yours.
Write privately, build useful connections on device, sync through your personal iCloud account, and keep an export path out.
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