Privacy

Your mail stays on your Mac.

Effective October 31, 2026

In short

• Sovo is a desktop app. There is no Sovo server and no Sovo account.
• Your mail, attachments and settings are stored in a local database on your Mac.
• Sovo connects only to your own mail provider, and to an AI provider only if you turn AI on with your own key.
• We don't collect, sell or share your data, and the app has no analytics or ads.

What the app stores, and where

To show your inbox, Sovo downloads your messages, attachments and folder list from your mail server and keeps them in a database on your Mac, so the app opens instantly and works offline. Account passwords and sign-in tokens are encrypted with the macOS Keychain and are only ever sent to your own mail server. None of this leaves your Mac except as described below.

Google user data

If you sign in with Google, Sovo asks for access to your Gmail (the https://mail.google.com/ scope) so it can connect over IMAP and SMTP to read, search, send, label, move and delete your mail at your request. Sovo also reads your email address to show which account is signed in. Gmail data is used only to provide these features inside the app, on your Mac.

Sovo's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We do not use Gmail data for advertising, do not sell it, do not let humans read it, and do not use it to train AI models.

Optional AI features

AI features are off by default. If you add your own Anthropic or OpenAI key and switch a feature on, the sender, subject and text of the messages that feature works on are sent from your Mac directly to that provider, with your key, when the feature runs. Sovo has no server in between. That provider's terms and privacy policy apply to those requests. You can switch any feature off, or remove your key, at any time in Settings → AI.

Deleting your data

Removing an account in Sovo deletes its mail and saved credentials from your Mac. To remove everything, quit Sovo and delete its folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Sovo. You can also revoke Sovo's access to your Google account at any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

This website

sovomail.xyz uses no cookies, analytics or trackers. If you join the waitlist, we keep your email address only to tell you when Sovo is ready, and we remove it whenever you ask. The company that hosts the site may keep standard server logs, such as IP addresses and the pages requested, to run and protect the service.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions are welcome on GitHub.