Privacy Policy

We do not ask for, receive, or store an email address, a name, a profile picture, a phone number, or a location. We do not operate accounts, so there is no login and no profile.

Above all: we never store your brain dumps, your tasks, your notes or your steps. They are written on your device and they stay there. The only text that ever leaves it is a tangled voice dump you choose to send with Cloud help (section 4), and it passes through our server without being saved.

Everything you capture is stored in BrainSort's own storage on your iPhone. Deleting the app deletes that storage and everything in it.

iCloud backup (optional). BrainSort can back up your lists (tasks, events, notes, lists, and your app settings) to your own private iCloud account, in a container only BrainSort on your devices can read. The backup never passes through our servers and we cannot see it. Apple stores it encrypted (end-to-end if you turned on Advanced Data Protection). You can turn automatic backups off in Settings › iCloud backup, and delete the backup from iOS Settings › your name › iCloud › Manage Storage › BrainSort. Restoring only adds what is missing on your iPhone; it never deletes or overwrites anything.

One honest caveat that is not ours to control: if you keep an iCloud or computer backup of your iPhone, Apple's backup may include the app's data. That copy belongs to Apple and is governed by Apple's privacy policy, not by this one.

When you dump something, BrainSort decides what it is and how to break it down on your device. On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence it uses Apple's on-device model; on every other iPhone it uses plain rules built into the app. Both run offline.

By default your text is not sent to us, to OpenAI, or to anyone else. The only exception is Cloud help, below, and it only happens with your permission. (Earlier versions of BrainSort could route text through a server to OpenAI; that path was removed and the app no longer ships with any way to reach it.)

Cloud help (optional). BrainSort sorts on your iPhone. If a voice dump comes out tangled and you allowed Cloud help, we send only its text (never the audio) to Anthropic (Claude) through our server to sort it. We don't keep the text, it isn't used to train AI, and without your OK nothing leaves your phone. Turn it off anytime in Settings › Cloud help.

How you allow it. The first time a dump comes out tangled, BrainSort asks you in a sheet that names Claude by Anthropic and offers two equal choices; "Only on this phone" keeps everything on the device. You can also turn it on or off in Settings › Cloud help. Without your permission, without a connection, or with the switch off, BrainSort uses the result sorted on your phone and nothing is sent.

Who processes it. The text goes to a function we run on Supabase, our cloud provider, which forwards it to Anthropic's API and returns the sorted result to your iPhone. For this feature, Supabase and Anthropic act as our processors. The request carries no name, email, account or advertising identifier.

What we keep. We do not store the text or the result. For each request we keep only metadata: token counts, cost, model, response time, an anonymous Supabase session ID and a salted hash of a random install ID. We use it to run the service and to enforce a limit of 20 cloud requests per day (the hash keeps a reinstall from resetting that limit).

What Anthropic keeps. Anthropic does not use data sent through its API to train its models. Under its commercial terms it automatically deletes API inputs and outputs within 30 days, and may keep them longer only if they are flagged for a Usage Policy (trust and safety) review or the law requires it. See Anthropic's data retention policy.

These are optional. The app only touches them if you turn them on, and iOS asks you first.

• Dictation. We use Apple's speech recognition to turn your voice into text. When your iPhone supports it for your language, recognition runs on the device. Otherwise — or if on-device recognition doesn't respond, in which case BrainSort retries once — Apple processes that audio on Apple's servers. That processing is Apple's, under Apple's privacy policy — we never receive the audio or the transcript. Our analytics only record that dictation failed (an error code and whether it ran on the device), never what you said.
• Calendar and Reminders. If you tap "Add to Calendar" or "Add to Reminders", BrainSort writes that item to Apple Calendar or Apple Reminders on your device. For Calendar, BrainSort asks only for permission to add events and cannot read your calendar. For Reminders, iOS requires full access so BrainSort can keep the reminders it created up to date when you edit, complete or delete the task. BrainSort never uploads your calendar or reminders anywhere. Nothing is added unless you tap.

If you buy BrainSort PRO, the purchase is processed by Apple. We use RevenueCat to check whether a purchase is active.

For that, RevenueCat receives a random identifier and your purchase history — never your name, your email, or anything you wrote in the app. That data is not linked to your identity and is not used to track you across apps or websites.

To understand how the app is used and improve it, BrainSort sends anonymous product-interaction events to a database we operate on Supabase, our cloud provider. Examples: the app was opened, an onboarding step or screen was viewed, a task was broken down into steps, the subscription screen was shown, and a purchase was started, completed or cancelled.

Each event contains the event name and short labels (such as how many items a dump produced or whether a breakdown ran on-device or with rules), the app version, your device language, a random identifier created when the app is installed, a per-session identifier and an anonymous Supabase sign-in that is not tied to any account. Events never include what you write — no brain dumps, tasks, notes or steps — and never include your name, email, contacts, location or advertising identifier.

We use this data (our own analytics) only to understand and improve the app. It is not linked to your identity, is not used for advertising, is not sold, and is not used to track you across other companies' apps or websites. Deleting the app deletes the random identifier; reinstalling it creates a new one.

We advertise BrainSort on Facebook and Instagram. To know whether those ads work, the app includes Meta's SDK (App Events only). It sends Meta: that the app was installed and opened, when you finish onboarding and sort your first brain dump, and when you start a trial or subscribe (the plan, its price and currency, and the store's transaction ID). Along with those events Meta receives a random identifier created by its SDK on your phone, basic device information (model, iOS version, language, time zone, carrier) and your IP address, as with any network connection.

Meta never receives what you write or dictate, your tasks, your name or your email. BrainSort does not collect your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) and never asks for permission to track you, so Meta processes these events under its Aggregated Event Measurement, designed for people who have not allowed tracking. Meta uses this data under its own policy: facebook.com/privacy/policy. Deleting BrainSort removes the SDK's identifier from your phone.

BrainSort is not directed at children under 13. We collect no identifiable personal information, so we hold no data that identifies anyone, of any age.

Laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you the right to access, correct, export or delete the personal data a company holds about you. In our case the answer is unusually simple: we hold no data linked to you. The anonymous analytics cannot be traced back to a person, so there is nothing for us to hand over or erase.

There is no account to close. To remove your data, delete the app. For purchase records, Apple and RevenueCat act as the processors — you can request removal by writing to us and we will pass it on. For Cloud help, Supabase and Anthropic act as processors: we keep no text, the metadata is not linked to you, and Anthropic deletes the text as described in section 4. Ad-measurement events are held by Meta under its own policy, and you can exercise your rights over them with Meta directly.

If a future version of BrainSort sends any new kind of data off your device, this page changes before that version ships, and the date at the top changes with it. Silence would be the worst thing we could do here.

Questions about this policy: support@brainsort.app. See also our Terms of Service and Support.