Security

Your work stays
on your device

Nothing Plainwork sees or touches leaves your device. It watches how you work, learns your habits, and keeps everything, encrypted, on your computer. Always.

GDPR-first. Encrypted at rest.

Local-first

Everything happens on your device

There's no Plainwork cloud or server processing what you do. The watching, the learning, and the remembering all run locally, on your device.

Local capture

Plainwork records your screen the way a screen recorder does, and it all gets processed right on your device. No frames are ever uploaded.

Local detection

Finding the patterns in how you work happens on your machine. Your computer does the thinking, not a server somewhere.

Local storage

Everything Plainwork remembers lives in a single folder on your device. Delete it and it's gone for good.

Encrypted at rest

Locked with a key
only you hold

What Plainwork remembers is encrypted on your device, and the key to unlock it never leaves your computer. Switching devices? Add a passphrase, and Plainwork backs up your key scrambled with it, so we never see the key and can't open your data. Not us, not anyone.

  • Encrypted on disk with AES-256, so the files are unreadable without the key.
  • Every piece of data is signed with HMAC-SHA512, so tampering is caught instantly.
  • The key lives in your macOS Keychain, the same vault that guards your passwords.
  • Zero-knowledge by design. Your backup are scrambled with your passphrase first.
  • Recordings live in a folder only Plainwork can access. Nothing else can read it.

Pause it. Hide it. Wipe it.
Your call

Plainwork only ever watches because you let it, and you can take that back at any moment.

Pause anytime

Pause for an hour, for the day, or until you turn it back on. No capture happens while paused, no exceptions.

Hide any app

Exclude any app, your messages, your password manager, or your personal notes. Plainwork never looks at what you block.

Wipe it, hour or all

Clear the last hour, or everything Plainwork has ever captured. Either way, instantly, no trace left.

Block sensitive sites

Add your bank or any site you don't want touched. Plainwork skips it entirely, no capture, no automation.

Shared habits, private screens

No one, not your employer, not an admin, not us, can ever see your screen activity. Organizations will only ever see the habits you choose to share. Never what you actually did to find them.

Execution

Execution stays on your device too

Approved habits run locally, clicking through apps, filling forms, moving files, like you would. Only failed steps and "smart steps" needing an LLM ever leave your device, and only that single step, isolated and deleted the moment it runs.

Your device
Habit running locally
Click through apps
Fill forms
Move files

Only when one step needs help

Failed step
Smart step
That step with immediate context only
Isolated one-off request
Deleted after run
  • Most execution happens entirely on your device. The cloud is the exception, not the default.
  • Only failed steps and LLM-dependent “smart steps” ever leave your device, and only that one step, not the rest of the habit.
  • Each request runs in an isolated, one-off environment. Nothing is shared between requests, and nothing is retained.
  • Data is deleted immediately after the step runs. No logs, no storage, no exceptions.
Coming soon

Closing the last gap to fully local

Most detection already runs on your device. Only the heaviest analysis still reaches a secure cloud model, and we're closing that gap.

Apple Intelligence

Detection already runs on-device. Apple Intelligence will let the hardest execution steps run there too, right on Apple Silicon.

MLX

Apple's on-device framework runs the models locally, fast, private, and with nothing sent off your Mac.

NVIDIA RTX Spark

For non-Apple setups, Plainwork will run detection on RTX Spark, keeping everything on-device.

FAQ

Your privacy, answered

The questions people ask before they trust Plainwork with their work. Short version: it stays on your Mac.

Get started

Private by default,
automated by choice

Install Plainwork and keep working. Your data stays exactly where it started: with you.

macOS, Windows coming soon · Free during beta