THE HOLM GUIDE / REFERENCE
Privacy & notifications
Know what the notch can see.
Messages from other apps
Holm reads supported apps’ Windows notifications and numeric taskbar badges. It requests notification access at first start. Supported messengers include WhatsApp, Discord, Outlook, Telegram, Signal and Slack, including supported browser versions. Teams messages are intentionally excluded. Individual apps can be switched off.
Notification limitations
Notification access varies with Windows and application behaviour. Some apps leave no notification, so Holm may show an app name and unread count instead of message text. Holm does not remove or change Windows notifications and does not write message text to logs.
Microphone and camera indicators
Orange and green dots indicate recording reported by Windows. Holm does not read audio or video content for these indicators. Some legacy DirectShow virtual cameras are not reported reliably. Settings → Calls and privacy can turn indicators off.
Local data and external services
Notes, chat history and settings stay on your PC. Weather uses Open-Meteo; GIF search uses GIPHY. Beam can use ntfy.sh for sealed signalling and a magic-wormhole transit relay for encrypted transfers. Service operators can still observe connection metadata. See the repository README for the detailed privacy and network model.