Check it yourself

See every connection in the app

In ChatMD Studio, open Settings › Privacy. Under Connections ChatMD makes, every address the app can contact is listed. Open a row to see why it connects, when, and what is sent.

The list is grouped by what has to happen first: Always, Only if you configured this, and Only when you choose an action. The Always group says Nothing.

The list is generated from the app’s source code and checked by an automated test. That is a check of the code, not a recording of live traffic, which is why the steps below let you watch the real connections yourself.

AI tools you choose, such as Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity, make their own connections, outside ChatMD’s control. They are listed apart, under AI tools ChatMD starts.

Turn on “Keep everything on this PC”

This is one switch, in Settings › Privacy. The same switch is in first-run setup and in Settings › Account. While it is on, ChatMD turns off:

• Cloud AI tools. Ollama on this PC stays available.
• Web clipping
• Picture downloads from the web
• Secrets key checks
• The daily licence check
• Signing in to a personal ChatMD account
• Web use by AI inside ChatMD

Buying Studio, applying a licence key and Microsoft Store updates still use the internet.

With a business licence the daily licence check stays on, because your organisation’s settings arrive through it.

Watch it with Windows

Windows can show you every connection a program makes, whatever the program says about itself. There is nothing to install.

1. Start ChatMD Studio and open a folder.
2. Press the Windows key and R together, type the word below and press Enter. Resource Monitor opens.

   resmon

3. Open the Network tab. In the list of processes, tick every line named:

   ChatMD Studio.exe

4. Use the app as you normally would. Under Network Activity and TCP Connections, Windows lists every address those processes connect to.

ChatMD Studio runs as several processes with the same name, so tick all of them. The AI tools you pick, such as Claude Code or Codex, show up under their own names, and so does Windows PowerShell when it asks Windows about a Studio licence bought in the Microsoft Store.

Prefer a command? With ChatMD Studio open, run this in PowerShell:

Get-NetTCPConnection -State Established -OwningProcess (Get-Process 'ChatMD Studio').Id

It lists the open TCP connections of every ChatMD Studio process, with the remote address and port. Windows shows addresses as numbers, and an address that starts with 127.0.0.1 or ::1 never leaves your PC. If PowerShell says it found no matching objects, the app had no open connection at that moment.

Your notes are just files

Open your notes folder in File Explorer. Each note is an ordinary file ending in .md, and Notepad can read it.

ChatMD does not copy your files into a private database, so the files in that folder are your notes. Copy the folder, or open it in any other editor, and everything is there.

What the app sends when it does go online

Besides what you start yourself, a few checks run by themselves. Each one is listed in Settings › Privacy.

• The daily licence check runs only if you have a licence key. About once a day, ChatMD sends chatmdstudio.com your licence key and a one-way code for this PC. The code is made from the PC name and the Windows user name together with the key, so it contains neither name and cannot be worked out from them. No file, note, vault path or account detail goes with it.
• With a business licence, that check also sends the number of the team settings this PC has applied. Only if your organisation turns on PC details, and no Windows policy forbids it, it also sends the PC’s name and the ChatMD version.
• A signed-in ChatMD account is renewed about once a day.
• If you turn on the Secrets key checks, ChatMD asks each key’s provider once a day whether the key still works.
• A Studio licence bought earlier in the Microsoft Store is checked by Windows itself, not by ChatMD, and ChatMD sends nothing.

“Keep everything on this PC” turns off the daily licence check for a personal key, signing in to a ChatMD account, and the Secrets key checks.

What this website counts

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