Deleting Your Account and Data

MDflow lets you permanently delete your account and all of its data yourself, at any time, without contacting support.

Where

Settings → danger zone. The action is behind a confirmation and a short timed pause, deliberately — it is not something you should be able to do by mis-clicking.

What gets deleted

Deletion is irreversible and cascades to:

• every document you own,
• every folder,
• every uploaded image,
• any active Pro subscription, which is cancelled as part of the deletion.

There is no trash, no grace period, and no restore. When it completes, MDflow cannot recover anything — not for you, and not for anyone else asking.

Export first

If there is any chance you want your content later, export before you delete.

• A whole workspace → a self-contained .zip with every folder, document and referenced image, which renders offline in Obsidian, VS Code, or on GitHub.
• A single document → download the .md.

Note that exports are per workspace. If you have several, export each one. See 02 Exporting a Workspace.

Two things an export does not include, worth knowing before you rely on it:

• Version history — it is not exported.
• Encrypted documents export as ciphertext, since MDflow cannot read them. Unlock and remove encryption first if you want readable text, or keep the password and decrypt later with the mdflow-crypt CLI (see 06 mdflow-crypt CLI).

Deleting from a connected app

The same deletion is available programmatically as a bearer-authenticated API endpoint, so connected apps can offer it natively rather than sending you to the website. The iOS app uses this — account deletion in the app is the real thing, with the same cascade.

What deletion does not touch

• GitHub and Google Drive files. These are never copied into MDflow; they live in your repository or your Drive and are read and written live. Deleting your MDflow account does not delete them. It does revoke MDflow's access.
• Documents other people cloned from your public shares. A clone is an independent copy in their workspace. Deleting your account does not reach into it.
• Exports you have already downloaded, which are yours.

Cancelling Pro without deleting

If you only want to stop paying, cancel the subscription from Settings instead. Your account and documents stay; the workspace returns to the Free plan.

Be aware of the two effects of a downgrade:

• Version history is removed when a workspace returns to Free. Documents are untouched; the recorded history goes.
• Free limits apply again — 100 documents and 5 images. Existing content over the limit is not deleted, but you will not be able to add more until you are under it.

Knowledgebase collection shares fall back gracefully to the folder structure and keep their stored settings, so shared links keep working.