How VisNote geo-tags your captures — VisNote

Most apps that geo-tag do it by phoning home. VisNote does it on your device.

What gets captured

When you tap capture, VisNote reads:

• The timestamp from your phone’s clock.
• The GPS coordinates from your phone’s location service (if you’ve granted permission).
• The name of the place from a local reverse-geocoder — no network request.
• Whatever photo, audio, or note you chose to attach.

Where it lives

All of this goes into an encrypted SQLite database on your device. If you’ve enabled sync, an end-to-end encrypted copy is pushed to your account. We, the VisNote team, cannot read it.

What you can turn off

• Location entirely (settings → capture → location off).
• Reverse-geocoding (captures keep coordinates but no place name).
• Sync (captures stay on the device they were taken on).

The defaults are on because location is usually the thing that makes a capture findable later. But the controls are one tap away.