Privacy Policy
Last updated 30 September 2026. This page describes what the Wordsmith app for iPhone does with what you give it.
In short: Wordsmith has no account, no server of its own, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. What you keep stays on your iPhone. Your voice is turned into text on your iPhone; practice recordings are deleted straight away, and voice notes stay on your iPhone until you delete them.
What stays on your iPhone
Your notebook, the sources you add and their text, your notes, your practice history and streak, and your answers to the first questions the app asks. They are stored only on your iPhone, are not synced, and are deleted when you delete the app.
Your voice
The microphone is on only while you answer a practice prompt, record a note, or have Wordsmith listen to a talk you play. An answer, or a talk it listens to, is recorded to a temporary file, turned into text on your iPhone by Apple's speech recognition, and the recording is deleted as soon as that's done; a talk is kept only as the text of the source you added. A voice note you record is kept on your iPhone, with what you said written under it, until you delete the note; it is not included in device backups. Recordings never leave your iPhone.
Apple Intelligence
Feedback on your answers, and finding the phrases worth keeping in a source, run on Apple's on-device model. When Wordsmith uses Apple's larger model through Private Cloud Compute, the text of a source is sent to Apple's servers for that request only; Apple designs Private Cloud Compute so that it does not keep that data. Wordsmith does not send your data to any other AI service.
Links you add
When you add a web link, your iPhone fetches the page directly from that website, as a browser would, without cookies. When you add a post from X, its text comes from X's public embed service (publish.twitter.com). Those sites receive an ordinary request from your iPhone, including its IP address, under their own privacy policies.
YouTube
When a source comes from a YouTube video, its picture is loaded from YouTube while you look at it, and Watch on YouTube opens the video there; YouTube receives an ordinary request from your iPhone. Wordsmith never contacts any transcript service. If you use one to get a transcript, that is between you and that service.
Screenshots
The text in a screenshot you add is read on your iPhone. The picture itself is not stored.
Sharing and widgets
Something you share to Wordsmith from another app waits on your iPhone, in Wordsmith's own storage, until you next open Wordsmith. It is then taken in like anything you add, and removed from that storage. Wordsmith's widgets show how many phrases are waiting and the next one, read from a small copy the app keeps on your iPhone for them; the phrase is marked private, so iOS can hide it on the Lock Screen while your iPhone is locked.
Reminders and purchases
The daily reminder is scheduled on your iPhone. Subscriptions are handled by Apple; Wordsmith never sees your payment details.
Children
Wordsmith is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.
Changes and contact
If what the app does with your information changes, this page changes with the same release. Questions: see Support.