Stored locally
- Conversation messages and branches
- Character cards and custom roles
- Personas, prompts, and lorebooks
- Downloaded model files
- App preferences and local logs
Privacy, explained plainly
Your conversation content stays on your Mac.
Charpal was designed so the most sensitive part of roleplay—the story itself—does not need an AI provider’s server.
What may use a connection
- Initial app and model downloads
- Mac App Store purchase and update services
- Non-content product analytics and crash diagnostics, where enabled
- Links you explicitly open from the app
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No privacy theatre.
“Offline” describes AI generation and core conversation storage. Charpal does not claim that a Mac running it can never make any network request. Operational telemetry, if collected, is not intended to contain your roleplay messages or character content.
Local AI changes the trust model
CharpalCloud AI
AI generationOn your MacRemote server
Conversation contentLocal databaseTypically uploaded
Account requiredNoUsually
Works without internetYes, after setupNo
Recurring AI feeNone from CharpalCommon
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