Your writing stays on your device.
Threadbound keeps your work on your own computer, phone or tablet, not on our servers. Here’s what that means, where copies go when you ask for them, and the little we do store.
Where your work lives.
- Everything you make, from threads and events to scenes and Codex entries, is stored in your browser on your own device.
- There’s no account, so there’s nothing on a server to sign in to, and nothing for us to read.
- Your work only leaves your device when you export it, or turn on Google Drive backup.
Keep a backup. Because your work lives in your browser, clearing your browser’s data, uninstalling the app or losing the device can lose it too. Export regularly, or turn on Cloud Sync.
Backups you can read.
- Export everything as a zip of plain text files, saved wherever you choose.
- An exported backup holds it all: your text, comments, revisions, snapshots, map pictures and cover.
- Importing merges safely, keeping whichever version of each thing is newer.
- An optional reminder in Settings tells you when it’s been a while.
Cloud Sync with Google Drive.
Optional, and off until you turn it on. It keeps your devices in step through your own Google Drive.
- Your browser talks to Google directly. No Threadbound server sits in between, and we never receive a copy.
- Threadbound can only see the files it creates in your Drive, and ones you pick yourself. Nothing else in your Drive.
- Drive backups leave out snapshots, map pictures and your cover, to keep them small. Export when you want everything.
- Disconnect any time in Settings, Cloud Sync. Your backups stay in your Drive until you delete them.
Encrypted, if you like.
Turn on Encrypt backups and each backup is locked with a passphrase on your device before it goes to Google. Google holds only data it can’t read, so its own AI features can’t read your book either.
We never see your passphrase, so we can’t recover it. Keep it somewhere safe.
What we do store.
- If you buy a licence: your email address, your licence key, and the devices it’s active on (a random id and a name such as “Chrome on Windows”). Never your writing, and never your card details, which Stripe handles.
- The free trial: nothing. It runs entirely on your device.
- If you post on the feedback or requests pages: the name you choose and what you write. No email, no account. Requests and comments are public.
- Visiting this site: no analytics, no tracking, no advertising. Our host, Cloudflare, sees the usual connection details any website does.
Your rights, and the fine print.
You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or for it to be deleted, by emailing threadboundapp@pm.me from the address you bought with.
This page is a plain-language summary. The privacy policy is the full, binding version, with every detail.