OneTwo EditorThis is a courtesy translation. The German version at onetwoeditorPrivacy.html is legally binding.
This privacy policy applies specifically to the OneTwo Editor app (iPhone, iPad and Mac) and supplements the general privacy policy of this website, which covers visiting the website itself.
1. Controller
Christian Drapatz
Kämpenstraße 42
45147 Essen
Germany
Email: support@onetwoapps.com
2. Basic principle: local data processing
OneTwo Editor has no server of the developer, no user account, no sign-in, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking. The app works fully offline. The developer receives no content from the app.
3. What data the app stores
What you write is entirely up to you. The app stores your documents (plain text, Markdown, notes with inserted images, scans, sketches and file attachments, JSON) together with names, folders, hashtags and color tags, as well as your settings. The app recognizes text in photos and scans on the device with Apple’s Vision framework so that it becomes searchable; no content is sent to any server for this.
4. Storage location and protection on the device
- Local: Your documents are kept on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. For widgets the app places a snapshot (title, date, markers and, unless you turn it off in Settings, text excerpts and preview images) in a shared app container (App Group) on your device. For locked documents it never contains content. Widgets and controls open the app through a URL scheme of its own (onetwo-editor://).
- System search and Handoff: The app registers your documents (except locked ones) with their title, hashtags and a short text excerpt with your device’s Spotlight search and supports Handoff between your devices. Both are Apple system features; the developer receives nothing through them.
- Document lock: You can lock individual documents with a password that you choose yourself. There is no preset password. Locked content is stored encrypted, also in iCloud; the name of the document stays visible, the content does not (not in search, widgets or Spotlight either). The password itself is not stored anywhere. If you like, you can additionally unlock a document on this device with Face ID or Touch ID; the app then keeps a key derived from your password in the keychain of this device (not in iCloud), and on other devices you unlock with the password first. The biometric check is performed exclusively by the operating system; the developer gets no access to your biometric data, the password or the document content. Without the password, locked content cannot be recovered, not even by the developer.
5. iCloud sync (optional)
On first launch the app asks once whether to use iCloud. Sync runs only if your device is signed in to iCloud and iCloud is enabled for the app. Then your documents are synchronized between your Apple devices via the private CloudKit database of your own iCloud account. The transfer runs exclusively through Apple’s infrastructure; the developer has no access to this data. Apple’s privacy terms apply: apple.com/legal/privacy. You can turn sync on and off per device under Settings › iCloud. Without iCloud or with sync turned off your documents stay fully local. For sync the app uses Apple’s background notifications (push), through which CloudKit reports changes; they contain no document content. Separately, the app syncs a few view settings (sorting, filters, list or gallery) through Apple’s iCloud key-value store if you are signed in to iCloud; document content is not part of it.
6. Files
You open text, Markdown and JSON files directly: on the Mac in a file window of their own, on iPad in a window of their own, on iPhone in full screen. The app accesses only files that you explicitly select or hand over to the app, and saves straight to that file, with no database and no iCloud. So that open tabs are back after a restart, the app remembers bookmarks to these files and unsaved text locally on the device (never in iCloud). If a file lives in iCloud Drive or with another provider, that service syncs it, not the app. The same applies to imports on all devices: the app only gets access to what you select.
7. Permissions
The app asks for permissions only when you start the matching action. Camera: to take a photo, scan a document or capture text into a note (iPhone and iPad). Photo library: to insert a picture you chose into a note. Face ID or Touch ID: to open a document you locked. On the Mac the app does not request camera permission; pictures from your iPhone arrive through macOS Continuity Camera. The app does not use location, microphone, contacts or notifications. An internet connection is required for the optional iCloud sync.
8. Exports, printing and sharing
Exported, printed or shared documents (for example .md, RTF, RTFD, PDF) are files under your control. Where you store or send them is up to you.
9. Contact by email
“Write a message” in Settings opens your own Mail app with a prefilled message to the developer. If you write to support, I process your email address and the content of your message to answer your request. Please do not send confidential document content by email.
10. Legal basis
Where personal data is processed, this is done to provide the app functions you request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). For the optional iCloud sync, the document lock and the camera features it is your consent by turning on or using the feature (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Answering support requests is based on Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR.
11. Disclosure to third parties
Your documents are not disclosed to third parties, except for the technically necessary processing by Apple described above as part of the optional iCloud sync.
12. Your rights
Your documents are on your device or in your own iCloud account; you can view, edit, export and delete them in the app at any time. In addition, you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection, data portability and the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, subject to the legal requirements.
13. Last updated
Last updated: October 2026