Memories stay local
With cloud sync off, everything your character learns — its facts, tasks, and knowledge wiki — lives only in local storage on your device.
Enhanced Privacy Mode
Prefer to keep things private? Turn cloud sync off and your character runs in enhanced privacy mode — its memories and chat history stay strictly on your device, never stored in Clanker's cloud database. Your character, your data, your device.
What stays on your device
Chat history stays local
Your conversation history isn't uploaded or stored in our cloud database. It stays on your device unless you choose to sync.
You choose per character
Privacy mode is a simple per-character toggle. Keep some characters local-only and sync others across devices — it's up to you.
How enhanced privacy mode works
Every Clanker character has a Save to Cloud switch in its settings. Leave it off and that character is local-first: its memories and chat history are written only to your device's local storage, and are never copied into Clanker's cloud database or shared across your other devices.
- Open your character's settings.
- Make sure Save to Cloud is turned off.
- Chat as usual — everything stays on this device.
An honest note about AI processing
To generate replies, your messages are still sent to Google's Gemini models for real-time processing in the cloud — that's how any modern AI assistant produces a response. The important difference in privacy mode is that this data is processed, not persisted: it is not saved to Clanker's cloud database, and your character's memory and history remain only on your device.
If you ever want a portable backup while staying local-first, you can export your character with Google's OKF straight to your own device or storage — no cloud account required.