Is Silent Student safe?
Short answer: Silent Student, the Mac and Windows homework app from El Dorado Ignition LLC, keeps your school password on your computer in the desktop app (the cloud app stores it encrypted on our servers so it can sign in for you, and you can ask us to erase it any time) and never sees your card number. It is also a public beta: assignment content goes to AI model providers, diagnostics (including screenshots and page HTML on screen-reading-agent platforms) are kept with no time limit, de-identified data may be sold or licensed to other companies (personal information never is), the Mac installer is self-signed and the Windows installer unsigned, and many schools’ academic-integrity policies prohibit software completing graded work.
Updated October 19, 2026.
Your school password
Stored in your operating system’s protected storage (macOS Keychain or Windows’ built-in encryption).
What should I weigh before installing it?
- On the desktop app, your school password stays on your computer. It is kept in macOS Keychain or Windows’ built-in encryption and never sent to our servers (Privacy, section 2). In the cloud app, it is stored encrypted on our servers so the agent can sign in for you. You can ask us to erase it any time (the cloud app).
- Assignment content leaves it. Question text and page content go to api.silentstudent.com and on to the AI model providers Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Z.ai, DeepSeek and xAI, directly or through OpenRouter (Privacy, section 3).
- Diagnostics are mandatory and kept with no time limit. They include screenshots and page HTML on platforms the Vision agent works, and closing your account does not delete them (Privacy, section 5, section 10, Terms, section 14).
- De-identified data may be sold. Vision recordings, problem reports, diagnostics and usage data may be sold or licensed to other companies, including to train AI models, after names, email addresses, IDs, grades and anything else that identifies you are removed. Your personal information is never sold (Privacy, section 8, Terms, section 15).
- The beta installers are not notarized or signed. The Mac installer is self-signed and the Windows installer unsigned, so your computer warns you on first open; every update must carry an Ed25519 signature and match a SHA-512 digest (download page).
- Cards go only through Stripe. Card details are entered in Stripe’s checkout and never reach our servers (Privacy, section 4).
- Your school’s rules come first. It signs in as you and submits in your account, many schools’ academic-integrity policies prohibit software completing graded work, it does not take proctored exams, and you are responsible for following your school’s policy (Terms, section 5). For the integrity question itself, see is using an AI homework bot cheating?
What stays on your computer, and what leaves it?
| Data | Where it goes | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your school password (desktop app) | Stays on your computer, in macOS Keychain or Windows’ built-in encryption. Never sent to our servers. | Until you remove it |
| Your school login and site cookies (cloud app) | Stored encrypted on our servers so the agent can sign in for you. | Until you ask us to erase them |
| Question text and page content | Our backend (api.silentstudent.com), then AI model providers: Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Z.ai, DeepSeek and xAI, directly or through OpenRouter. | Privacy, section 3 |
| Diagnostics: run outcomes, errors, crashes; screenshots and page HTML on screen-reading-agent platforms | Our backend, stored with our cloud hosting providers. De-identified copies may be sold or licensed to other companies, including for AI training (Privacy, section 8). | No time limit; not deleted when you close your account |
| Passwords typed into password fields, cookies, attached files | Never captured in diagnostics. | — |
| Card details | Stripe’s checkout only. They never reach our servers. | Held by Stripe |
| Account, run history, Vision recordings, problem reports | Our backend, stored with our cloud hosting providers. | Until you ask for erasure by email |
From the privacy policy (sections 2 to 5, 8, 10 and 11), checked October 19, 2026. If this table and the policy differ, the policy controls.
What stays on your computer.
Where your password goes, and where the app signs in from.
Where does my school password go?
In the desktop app, it stays on your computer, stored in your operating system’s protected storage (macOS Keychain or Windows’ built-in encryption). It is never sent to our servers, and signing out of Silent Student doesn’t touch it. In the cloud app, it is stored encrypted on our servers so the agent can sign in for you. You can ask us to erase it any time.
Does it sign in to my account from your servers?
Not the desktop app. It runs its own browser on your computer and signs in from there, and your normal browser is left alone. The cloud app is different: its browser runs on our servers and signs in from there. Its work shows up in Canvas as activity on your account, which the FAQ covers in Can Canvas see that I use Silent Student?
If you use the cloud app.
- The browser runs on our servers. The web app at app.silentstudent.com runs the agent and its browser on our servers, not on your device, so you can use it from a Chromebook, iPad or phone. School-managed devices may block it.
- Your school login and cookies are stored, encrypted. When you sign in to your school or a homework site in the cloud browser, we keep that login and the site’s cookies encrypted on our servers so the agent can sign in for you next time. This is different from the desktop app, where saved logins never leave your computer.
- It signs in from a datacenter. The cloud browser connects to your school and homework sites from our servers’ IP address, a datacenter address, not your home network. A site can see that, and some sites may ask you to confirm the sign-in or block it.
- Our staff can watch and end a session. For support and safety, our staff can view a cloud session live and can end it, for example to fix a problem you reported or to stop a run that is going wrong or breaks our Terms. Staff never look at your saved logins except to fix a problem you report to us.
- Kept until you ask us to erase it. Your stored cloud logins, cookies and cloud browser data are kept until you ask us to erase them. Email support@silentstudent.com and we erase them from our servers. Diagnostics follow the same rules as the desktop app (Privacy, section 2A).
What leaves it, and how long.
What goes to our backend and its AI model providers, what diagnostics are collected, and for how long.
What leaves my computer?
The question text and page content the app needs an answer for go to our backend (api.silentstudent.com), which passes them to AI model providers: currently Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Z.ai, DeepSeek and xAI, directly or through OpenRouter. Payments are handled by Stripe, and card details never reach our servers. We don’t sell personal information or share it with advertisers. We may sell or license de-identified data, with names, IDs and anything else that identifies you removed (privacy policy section 8).
What diagnostics does the app collect?
Diagnostics are part of using the app: run outcomes, errors and crashes, and, on platforms the Vision agent works, screenshots and page HTML of the pages it works on, which can include names and grades shown there. Passwords typed into password fields, cookies and attached files are never captured. Sign-in and SSO pages the bot passes through are recorded like any other page. Since October 18, 2026 we keep diagnostics, including screenshots and page HTML, with no time limit, and closing your account does not delete them. With personal identifiers removed, they may be sold or licensed to other companies, including to train AI models. Details are in sections 5, 8 and 10 of the privacy policy.
How updates are verified.
How do I know an update is genuine?
Every in-app update must carry Silent Student’s Ed25519 release signature and match its published SHA-512 digest before it installs.
Is the Silent Student installer safe to open?
Download it only from silentstudent.com/download. The beta installers are self-signed on Mac (not yet notarized by Apple) and unsigned on Windows, so the first open shows a warning; after that, every in-app update must carry Silent Student’s Ed25519 release signature and match its published SHA-512 digest before it installs.
Can my school see that I used it?
Everything Silent Student does is submitted from your own account, and Canvas and the courseware record it like any submission you make yourself. Silent Student makes no claim that its use can’t be noticed and gives no advice on avoiding detection. On written work, the FAQ’s answer on essays and discussion posts says what the app does, and it makes no promise about AI detectors. Before using it on graded work, check your school’s academic-integrity policy.
Is Silent Student legit?
Yes: it is real, working software sold by El Dorado Ignition LLC, a Wyoming company, through Stripe, and its benchmark was run by the company itself. It is a public beta with no independent reviews yet; Is Silent Student legit? lists what you can check yourself, and our About page covers who makes Silent Student.
Your data, and your choices.
What it never does
It doesn’t install a browser extension, and it never asks for card details outside Stripe’s checkout.
Can I delete my data?
Yes, by asking us. Closing your account does not delete your data. To have it erased, email support@silentstudent.com and an administrator erases your account and the personal data we hold for it, including run history, Vision recordings and problem reports. A separate administrative record (name, email and dates) and de-identified billing and audit records are kept, and backups expire on their normal schedule. Details are in section 11 of the privacy policy.
This page summarizes our privacy policy and terms; if they ever differ, those documents control.
Report a security problem.
Email support@silentstudent.com with the details. We read every report.