Your personal data never leaves your device.

Most privacy policies explain what a company does with your data. This one mostly explains why there isn't any. MyAttic has no servers and no accounts. None of your personal data ever leaves your phone.

What the app stores, and where

Everything you put into MyAttic — what you write, and anything the app makes from it — is kept in a private database on your iPhone.

If you are signed in to iCloud, the app automatically backs up that database to your personal iCloud Drive (your own private iCloud container, not our servers). This is what powers the "Back Up Now" and "Restore from iCloud Backup" options in Settings. That file lives in your iCloud account, is protected by Apple's encryption, and is only accessible to you — we have no access to it whatsoever.

Where the thinking happens

Everything MyAttic does with your writing, it does on your iPhone, using Apple's on-device intelligence. Nothing is sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or any other AI provider — and nothing is sent to us either, because there is nothing on the other end of a connection to send it to. Once the app is set up it works in airplane mode. That is the simplest test of this claim, and you can run it yourself in about ten seconds.

When you speak instead of type

You can hold the microphone and talk instead of typing. Your speech becomes text on your iPhone, as you say it — the audio is never written to a file, never uploaded, and not kept once the words are on the page. No recording of your voice exists anywhere afterwards, including on the device itself.

One honest caveat: the first time you use it, iOS may need to download the speech model for your language. That download is between your phone and Apple, contains none of your content, and happens once. After that, dictation works with the network off like everything else.

What we collect about you

Nothing personal. No name, no email address, no advertising ID, and nothing you write: not an entry, not a recording, not a story.

Only how the app is doing. Nothing you wrote is in it, and nothing in it points back to you.

You never make an account, and there is nothing to sign in to. If you enter a first name during setup, it stays on the device and is only used to greet you.

Crash and diagnostics reports

iOS keeps an eye on how the app behaves: whether it crashed, whether it froze, how long it took to open. Once a day it hands MyAttic a short report on that.

The report is about the app, not about you. Nothing you wrote, said or typed is in it. And it does not go anywhere. It sits on your phone, and it is gone when the app is.

Apple's own data

If you install MyAttic from the App Store, Apple handles the download and any purchase, and may share aggregate, anonymised App Store analytics with us, for example how many people downloaded the app. If you have left Share iPhone Analytics and Share with App Developers switched on, Apple also passes us an aggregated version of its own crash and energy reports. Both are Apple’s collection rather than ours, governed by Apple’s privacy policy, and neither ever includes anything you wrote. You can switch them off in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

Your rights

Data protection law gives you the right to access, correct, export, and erase the personal data a company holds about you. We hold none. Practically: deleting MyAttic from your iPhone deletes the local database; you can delete your iCloud backup copy from iCloud Drive at any time; removing your device backup removes that copy too.

Children

MyAttic is not directed at children under 4, and collects nothing anyone writes, at any age.

If this ever changes

The date at the top of this page changes whenever this policy does. If we ever collect anything beyond the usage reports described above, that is a change to the product and not merely to this document: it would be announced inside the app, before it took effect, and it would need your consent.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@myattic.co.

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