The short version: your notes, journal entries, and recordings stay on your device. Only the transcript text of a recording — never the raw audio — is sent to our AI processing pipeline to generate a structured note, and only when you record something. We don't have accounts, we don't run analytics or ad-tracking SDKs, and we don't sell your data.
1. What Jot AI collects
Jot AI has no sign-up and no login screen — there is no name, email, or password to give us. What we do collect:
| Data | What it is | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Voice recordings | The audio you record when you tap the mic | Transcribed entirely on-device using Apple's Speech framework — the audio itself is never uploaded anywhere |
| Transcript text | The on-device transcript of a recording | Sent to our backend so AI can turn it into a titled, structured note (see §2) |
| Notes & journal entries | Titles, tags, summaries, journal text, mood ratings | Stored only on your device to power the app |
| Anonymous identifiers | A random ID from Firebase (auth token) and a separate random ID from RevenueCat (subscriptions) | Lets our backend and payment processor recognize repeat requests from the same install, without knowing who you are |
| Purchase/subscription events | Whether you've started a trial, subscribed, or restored a purchase | Handled entirely by Apple and RevenueCat so we can unlock Jot Pro — we never see your payment details |
| App preferences | Transcription language, summary style, free-tier usage counters | Stored locally on your device (iOS's standard app-preferences storage) so your settings persist between launches |
2. How voice notes are processed by AI
This is the part of Jot AI that talks to a server, so here's exactly what happens, step by step, every time you record something:
- You record. The audio is saved to your device only.
- Transcription happens on your device. Jot AI uses Apple's on-device Speech framework to turn your recording into text. The audio file itself is never sent to us or anyone else.
- The transcript text — and only the text — is sent to our backend (a Firebase Cloud Function) so it can be cleaned up into a titled, structured note.
- Our backend forwards that transcript to OpenRouter, a third-party AI service, which routes it to a language model (currently OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini) to generate the structured note content.
- The result comes back and is saved only on your device. Neither our backend nor, to our knowledge, OpenRouter retains a copy of your transcript after the request completes — but OpenRouter's own data-handling policy governs what happens on their infrastructure, and we encourage you to review it if you want the full picture: openrouter.ai/privacy.
Because a voice journal can contain sensitive personal reflections, we want this spelled out clearly rather than buried in boilerplate: talking to Jot AI means your words, as text, pass through Google/Firebase's servers and OpenRouter's servers on their way to becoming a note. If that's not something you're comfortable with for a particular thought, don't record it, or edit the note afterward — anything you type by hand and never run back through "re-analyze" stays entirely on your device.
3. Third parties we share data with
| Company | What they get | What they do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Google / Firebase | An anonymous auth token; your transcript text in transit, to relay it onward | Runs our backend (Cloud Functions) and issues the anonymous token that lets the app talk to it |
| OpenRouter, Inc. | Your transcript text | Routes it to an AI language model to generate your note's title, summary, and structure |
| RevenueCat | An anonymous purchase-tracking ID; subscription/trial events from Apple | Manages Jot Pro entitlements across app launches and reinstalls |
| Apple | Payment details (never seen by us), App Store purchase records | Processes all payments for Jot Pro |
We do not sell, rent, or trade your data to anyone, for any reason.
4. What Jot AI does not do
- No accounts — there's no sign-in, so there's no password or email tied to your notes.
- No analytics SDKs (no Firebase Analytics, no Mixpanel, no Amplitude — nothing tracks how you use the app).
- No crash reporting SDKs.
- No advertising or ad-tracking SDKs, and no App Tracking Transparency prompt, because we don't track you across other apps or websites.
- No cloud sync yet — your notes exist only on the device that recorded them (a future version may add opt-in sync; this policy will be updated first if so).
- No sharing of your content with other users — Jot AI has no social features, feeds, or public profiles.
5. Where your data lives
Notes, journal entries, and audio files are stored locally on your device using Apple's on-device storage frameworks. The only exception is the App Group container Jot AI shares with its own Home Screen widget — that's still local storage on your device, just readable by both the app and the widget, and it never leaves your phone.
6. Your controls: export & delete
You're always in control of what's on your device:
- Delete a single note or journal entry any time, from within the app.
- Export all your notes as plain text from Settings → Data, to keep a copy or move elsewhere.
- Delete everything — every note, journal entry, and recording — from Settings → Danger zone → "Delete all data." This resets Jot AI to a fresh install. Since we don't keep a server-side copy of your content, deleting it on your device is the complete picture.
Deleting your data does not cancel a Jot Pro subscription — Apple doesn't give apps a way to do that. Manage or cancel a subscription anytime in Settings → your Apple Account name → Subscriptions.
7. Permissions Jot AI requests
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
| Microphone | Recording your voice notes. Nothing is recorded until you tap the mic. |
| Speech Recognition | Transcribing your recording into text, on-device. |
| Notifications | An optional daily journal reminder, scheduled entirely on your device — Jot AI has no push-notification server. |
8. Children's privacy
Jot AI is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them. If you believe a child has used Jot AI in a way that raises a concern, contact us and we'll address it.
9. Changes to this policy
If how Jot AI handles data changes — for example, if we add optional cloud sync — we'll update this page and change the effective date above. Material changes (anything that expands what we collect or share) will also be surfaced in the app itself, not just here.