Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 21, 2026
The short version: your notes belong to you. We don't run ads, we don't sell data, and we collect the minimum needed to make the app work.
What we store and where
- Notes on your device. Notes and transcripts are stored locally on your device by default (iOS app storage / your browser's local storage). Audio recordings are also stored locally on iOS and on the desktop web app; on Android no audio is recorded or stored at all — see “Audio on Android” below.
- Sync (optional). If you enable sync, your note text and metadata (not audio) are stored on our servers (Vercel), addressed by a secret sync key that only you hold. Anyone with your sync key can read those notes — treat it like a password.
- Licenses. When you buy Pro we store your license key and purchase time, plus the email you used at checkout (web) or the Google Play order ID (Android app), so we can validate your license and help with support.
Microphone & speech recognition
Recording is the app's core function, so here is the exact data flow in the web and Android app:
- Where audio is recorded, it never leaves your device. On iOS and the desktop web app, the app records with the device's recorder and saves the audio only to local on-device storage (IndexedDB on the web). The app has no code path that uploads audio anywhere — sync sends note text only, never audio. On Android nothing is recorded to begin with (see below).
- Live transcription uses the browser's built-in speech service. While you speak, the browser's Web Speech API produces the text you see. That service is provided by your browser/OS vendor — in Chrome and on Android this is Google's speech recognition service, which processes audio on-device where supported and otherwise transmits it to Google's servers for recognition under Google's privacy policy. The app receives only the resulting text; we never see or store the audio sent to that service, and we cannot control Google's handling of it.
- Microphone access is used only while you are recording and is released when you stop.
AI processing
- Free tier: processing happens on your device (Apple Intelligence or built-in rules) or via your browser's built-in speech recognition as described above.
- Pro tier in the iOS app: audio is sent to Deepgram for transcription and transcript text is sent to Anthropic (Claude) for summarization, under their respective privacy terms. The web and Android apps process notes on your device only. We don't use your content to train models.
Payments
On the web, payments are processed by Stripe. In the Android app from Google Play, payments are processed by Google Play Billing. In both cases we never see or store your card number.
Google Play (Android app)
- The Android app is the same web app running inside a Google Play wrapper (a Trusted Web Activity). Everything above about on-device storage, microphone use and speech recognition applies to it, with one difference described next.
- Audio on Android: transcript only, no recording. On Android the app captures the live transcript and does not record or keep an audio file. There is no audio to store, play back or delete, and none is transmitted. This is the permanent behaviour on Android, not a temporary limitation. Audio recording and playback remain available on iOS and on the desktop web app.
- When you buy Pro through Google Play, Google sends the app a purchase token. Our server sends that token to Google to confirm the purchase is genuine, marks it acknowledged, and issues your license. We keep the Google Play order ID, the product ID, the purchase time and the country code Google reports — never your payment details.
- Restore works the same way: the app asks Google Play which items your Google account owns and re-verifies them with our server. We do not receive your Google account name or email from this process.
- The Android app does not use the advertising ID, does not contain ads, and includes no analytics or tracking SDKs.
Analytics & tracking
No third-party analytics, no advertising trackers, no cookies beyond what's technically required.
Deleting your data
Delete notes in-app at any time (deletions propagate through sync). To remove your sync data or license records entirely, email us and we'll wipe them.
Contact
Questions or data requests: allen@webeuseful.com