Privacy
Locus has no accounts and does not collect usage data. Your files stay on your computer.
What Locus connects to
Section titled “What Locus connects to”- Updates: when it starts, the desktop app downloads a small file from GitHub to check for a new version.
- AI sidebar and natural language input: when you use them, your messages, attached images, pictures of the graphics view and the results of the AI’s actions are sent to the model provider you chose. Nothing is sent until you send a message or a request. That provider’s privacy policy applies. With Ollama, everything stays on your computer.
- Plugins: a plugin can only connect to the websites listed in its manifest. During exams it cannot connect anywhere.
- Graspable Math: if you add Graspable Math to a whiteboard, it is loaded from graspablemath.com.
What Locus stores on your computer
Section titled “What Locus stores on your computer”The desktop app stores its settings in:
- macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/xyz.lunalna.locus - Windows:
%APPDATA%\xyz.lunalna.locus
This folder contains your settings, the AI settings with your API keys, the MCP server settings, the performance settings, installed themes, resource packs and plugins, and data saved by plugins.
The web app stores the same settings in your browser.
Camera
Section titled “Camera”Locus only uses the camera in the Camera tab of the AI sidebar. The camera turns off when the window is hidden. Locus does not use the microphone.