Privacy

The Workbench — nothing leaves your browser

On The Workbench — Projects → Materials → Bench Ledger. Every receipt knows which build it belongs to.

Every record you put into the The Workbench — everything it needs to keep the picture honest — lives in your browser's local storage on your machine. There is no server. There is no account. There is no analytics ping. There is nothing for us to leak.

The threat model most blades SaaS ignores

creative and hobby data is the kind that matters. It maps priorities, routines, and futures. In most tools in this category — Notion databases, Airtable at $20/user/mo, purpose-built SaaS suites at $30–$99/mo — that data lives in a database in a data centre, protected by whichever policy is currently in force at a company you have never met.

The safest record is the one that never entered a database in the first place.

How the file behaves on the wire

Load the The Workbench once. Open dev tools. Watch the network tab. There is nothing there. The file makes no fetch, no analytics beacon, no font call, no telemetry. Once cached, it runs airplane-mode, forever.

The one exception is if you click a link that leaves the file. The file itself never leaves.

What "no account" actually buys you

No email to breach. No password to lose. No session to hijack. No support ticket where a stranger reads your multi-tab working suite to help you.

The trade-off, honestly: we cannot recover your file for you. That is the shape of ownership.

What the The Workbench does not do

Questions people ask

01

Where is my data stored?

In your browser's local storage on your machine. Export to JSON any time; it is plain text you can read.

02

Can Offline.Ltd see anything?

No. There is no back-channel. Not for support, not for improvements, not for anything. We built the file so this is architecturally impossible, not just policy.

03

What if my laptop is stolen?

Standard disk encryption on your OS is the correct answer, as for any private file. The The Workbench does not add a separate password because the OS already does that job properly.

The most private multi-tab working suite is the one that never enters a database in the first place.

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