# Where NoteOwl stores your data > NoteOwl keeps your recordings, transcripts, notes and memory in one folder on your Mac, never on its servers. Open it from Settings with Show in Finder. Source: https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/where-your-data-is-stored · Last updated 2026-09-27 · Checked against NoteOwl 1.0.0 NoteOwl stores everything you record and write in one folder on your Mac: `~/Library/Application Support/NoteOwl`. To open it, click **Settings** in NoteOwl, then the **General** tab, and click **Show in Finder** beside **Local Vault**. Nothing you record is kept on NoteOwl's servers. Your recordings, transcripts, notes, memory and Chat conversations exist only in this folder, unless you export them. ## Where is NoteOwl's data folder? In your home folder, at `~/Library/Application Support/NoteOwl`. NoteOwl calls it your **Local Vault**. Finder hides the Library folder, so the easiest way there is the **Show in Finder** button in NoteOwl's settings. 1. Open NoteOwl and click **Settings** in the sidebar. 2. Click the **General** tab. 3. Under **On-disk location**, click **Show in Finder** beside **Local Vault**. A Finder window opens with the NoteOwl folder selected. Without NoteOwl, choose **Go → Go to Folder…** in Finder, type `~/Library/Application Support/NoteOwl` and press Return. ## What's in the NoteOwl folder? Your recordings as Markdown text and audio files, a database for search and memory, the on-device AI models, and a few files for your settings. The main parts: | In the folder | What it holds | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | `notes/meetings`, `notes/transcripts` and `notes/dictations` | Each meeting, imported recording and dictation as a Markdown file, with its transcript and your notes. Summaries and other things NoteOwl writes from a recording are kept as Markdown files too | | `audio` | The recordings, as WAV files, for playback and for rebuilding a transcript. A meeting also has separate files for your microphone and your Mac's audio | | `index` | NoteOwl's database: the search index for your recordings, plus your memory, such as people and commitments, and your Chat conversations | | `models` | Most of NoteOwl's on-device AI models, which download once after you install NoteOwl. They aren't your data, and **Delete all my data** leaves them in place | | Files such as `templates.json`, `vocabulary.json` and `voiceprints.json` | Your templates, your **Vocabulary**, the voices NoteOwl learned to recognise, what you wrote about people, and your calendar setup | | `CrashReports` | Crash reports, if NoteOwl ever crashes. They stay here unless you choose to email one to support | Leave these files as NoteOwl wrote them. To change or remove something, do it in NoteOwl. For a copy you can open in other apps, use **Export all data**: see [export a note, or all of your data](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/export). ## What isn't in the NoteOwl folder? A few things live elsewhere on your Mac: * **Your NoteOwl Pro licence** is kept in the macOS Keychain. * **The permissions you granted**, such as Microphone and Accessibility, are kept by macOS. * **Your calendar and contacts** stay in macOS Calendar and Contacts. NoteOwl reads them there, if you allow it, and never changes them. * **Exports you saved** are wherever you chose to save them. ## Does NoteOwl keep anything on its servers? Nothing you record or write. NoteOwl records, transcribes and answers on your Mac, so there's nothing to upload. If you use the trial or NoteOwl Pro, NoteOwl's licensing service holds only your account and licence details, such as your email address. See [what NoteOwl sends over the network](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/network-use) for every connection NoteOwl makes. ## How do I remove NoteOwl's data? In NoteOwl, open **Settings**, click the **Memory** tab and click **Delete all my data**. It erases your recordings, transcripts and memory from this folder and keeps the on-device AI models, so you don't download them again. See [delete a recording or all your data](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/delete-all-data). ## Common questions ### Does NoteOwl store my recordings in the cloud? No. NoteOwl keeps your recordings, transcripts, notes and memory only in its folder on your Mac. It doesn't upload them, sync them to iCloud or keep a copy on NoteOwl's servers. ### Is NoteOwl's data included in my Time Machine backups? NoteOwl doesn't exclude its folder from backups, so if you use Time Machine, macOS backs it up with the rest of your home folder. For a copy of your NoteOwl data you control, use Export all data in Settings → Memory. ### Can I move NoteOwl's data folder somewhere else? No. NoteOwl 1.0.0 keeps its data in ~/Library/Application Support/NoteOwl and has no setting to move it. To take your data elsewhere, use Export all data in Settings → Memory, which saves everything to one zip file. ## Related - [Export a note, or all of your data](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/export): Export a NoteOwl meeting, dictation or transcript as Markdown, PDF, text or subtitles, or save everything to one zip file with Export all data. - [Delete a recording or all your data](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/delete-all-data): Delete one meeting, dictation or transcript in NoteOwl, or erase your whole library with Delete all my data in Settings → Memory, and see what stays. - [What NoteOwl sends over the network](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/network-use): NoteOwl goes online for a one-time model download, update checks and, for NoteOwl Pro, sign-in and a weekly licence check. Your recordings never leave your Mac. - [Use NoteOwl offline](https://www.noteowl.ai/docs/data/use-noteowl-offline): Once its on-device AI models have downloaded, NoteOwl works with no internet connection, including dictation, meetings, Chat and a NoteOwl Pro licence. Learn more: [The NoteOwl Privacy Policy](https://www.noteowl.ai/privacy)