Privacy Policy — Pled
The short version
Pled has no account, no server of its own, no ads and no tracking. Alpine Lynx receives nothing you record. Your words stay on your iPhone, except where you decide otherwise or iOS does so as described below.
What stays on your device
- Your words: the text of your recordings, notes, reminders, events, lists and minutes are in the app, protected by iOS file protection.
- The sound: it is removed once the words are written. If Pled isn't sure about the language, it keeps the sound for up to 7 days so that you can try another language. If writing fails, the sound stays so that nothing is lost.
- Voices: what Pled needs to tell voices apart is on the iPhone, is left out of backups and is never exported. You can forget a voice at any moment. The names are the ones you give.
- Settings: your choices, such as your languages and voice commands.
What is processed on your device
Speech is turned into text by Apple's speech recognition on the iPhone. Proposals, summaries and minutes use Apple Intelligence on the iPhone, if your iPhone has it. Pled doesn't use Apple's cloud to sort your words.
What can leave your device
- The speech model: iOS downloads it once, from Apple. Your words aren't part of that download.
- iPhone backup: your words go into your iPhone backup, as with other apps. With iCloud Backup, Apple holds the key unless you turn on Advanced Data Protection. Voices are left out.
- iCloud Drive: if you turn it on, Pled keeps a copy of your data in your own iCloud Drive. It is off by default and nothing is uploaded until you turn it on.
- Export and sharing: what you export or share goes where you send it. The export file is an open format and is not encrypted, so keep it somewhere safe.
- Reminders and Calendar: if you connect them, what you confirm goes to Apple's Reminders and Calendar, and can follow your own settings there, such as iCloud.
- Purchases: the App Store handles them. Alpine Lynx doesn't get your payment details.
- Email: if you write to me, I receive what you send and your address, and use it only to answer you.
Permissions
- Microphone: to record your voice.
- Speech recognition: to write what you said, on the iPhone.
- Reminders and Calendars (optional): iOS only offers full access. Pled adds to a list and a calendar called Pled and checks whether what it added is still there. It doesn't look at your other items.
- Face ID (optional): to lock the app.
- Notifications (optional): local reminders to close your day. Nothing goes through a server.
- Apple Watch microphone (optional): it records on your Watch and sends the recording only to your iPhone. The Watch deletes its copy after the transfer.
Recording other people
Pled asks you to confirm that everyone agreed before it records a meeting. It can't ask them for you, and the rules depend on where you are. Recording other people is your responsibility.
Your control
You can export everything to an open file, and delete everything in Settings. Deleting the app also removes what it holds on the iPhone. Copies you made yourself, in backups or files, stay until you remove them.
Children
Pled isn't aimed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version appears on this page with a new date.
Contact
Alpine Lynx · Switzerland · Email me