● Tape Journal

Privacy Policy

Effective 4 November 2026

Tape Journal is a voice diary, and “we” in this policy means its developer. What you say is personal, so the app is built to keep it with you: there is no account, no server of ours, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. We never receive your recordings, your words or anything else you put into the app.

What the app keeps, and where

• Your recordings and their words, the titles and the day summaries are stored on your iPhone or iPad.
• Your own iCloud Drive. If iCloud Drive is on, the app keeps a copy of your journal in a “Tape Journal” folder in your iCloud Drive, so a new device or a fresh install can bring your tapes back. That folder is in your iCloud account, under Apple's terms; we cannot see or open it. You can see it in the Files app, and you can turn it off in Settings → your name → iCloud → iCloud Drive.
• A few settings, such as the language, are stored on the device.

What happens on your device

• Speech to words uses Apple's on-device speech recognition.
• Titles and summaries are written on your device, by Apple Intelligence where it is available. Nothing is sent anywhere.
• Find listens only while you hold FIND, to hear the word you want to look for.

Permissions

• Microphone: to record while you hold ●, and to hear a word while you hold FIND. A take you start keeps recording if the screen locks, until you stop it.
• Speech recognition: to turn your recordings into words on the device.

Sharing

Nothing leaves the app unless you share it: SHARE and COPY on a tape send its words where you choose.

Deleting

• Erasing a tape in the app deletes its recording and words from the device and from the iCloud Drive copy.
• Deleting the app removes everything stored on the device. The iCloud Drive copy stays in your iCloud until you delete the “Tape Journal” folder (Files app, or Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage).

Crash reports

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device's settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. They do not contain your recordings or words.

Children

The app collects no personal information from anyone, children included.

This website

This website (lathieff.com) uses no cookies, analytics or trackers, and loads nothing from other companies. Like any website, its host keeps short-lived server logs, such as IP addresses, to run and protect the site.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@lathieff.com.