Privacy policy.

Magpie Search finds your files by the text inside them: documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, slides, notes and pictures. It was designed to keep everything on your computer. This policy covers the Magpie Search app and this website, magpiesearch.app.

What Magpie reads

• Only the files inside the folders you add (during setup or in Settings › Folders), and only the kinds of files you choose in Settings › Indexing.
• Text is extracted on your own computer. Text in pictures and scanned PDFs is recognised (OCR) on your computer too. “Find by meaning” also runs on your computer. Files and their text are never uploaded, shared or sent anywhere.

What Magpie stores

Everything is stored on your computer only, in %LocalAppData%\Magpie:

• magpie.db: for each indexed file its path, size, dates, extracted text and, if “Find by meaning” is on, a list of numbers that describes what each passage is about. Also which files you pinned or opened from Magpie (used to rank results).
• settings.json: your settings (folders, collections, file types, languages, shortcut, theme) and your recent searches. Recent searches can be cleared from the search window.
• magpie.log: technical error messages, if any.
• models\: downloaded text-recognition and “Find by meaning” models.

Deleting that folder removes all of it, at any time. Settings › General › Open data folder shows where it is. Your own files are never changed.

Internet access

Magpie connects to the internet only to download the models you enable: text-recognition languages and the “Find by meaning” model (from modelscope.cn, huggingface.co and github.com). These downloads are ordinary file requests: like any web request they reveal your IP address to that server, but no personal data, file or text is sent. Magpie contains no analytics, advertising or tracking.

This website

magpiesearch.app uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts or fonts. If you switch the theme, your choice is saved in your own browser's local storage and never sent to us. The site is hosted by Netlify, which processes standard request data such as IP addresses to deliver the pages and protect the service. Downloads from GitHub Releases or the Microsoft Store are covered by those services' own privacy policies.

Children

Magpie does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new “Last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: elham.derakhshan@outlook.com