Jot privacy policy

What stays on your iPhone

Recordings are made and turned into words on your iPhone using Apple's on-device speech recognition. Your recordings, the words, and the notes, tasks, reminders and events Jot creates are stored only on your device. They may be included in your own iCloud or computer backups of your iPhone, which Apple and you control.

If you allow calendar access, Jot reads your calendar events on your iPhone to show them on the Today screen, and never sends them anywhere. Jot adds to your calendar or the Reminders app only when you tap Add to Calendar or Add to Reminders on an item. Reminders, the morning brief and the evening check-in are local notifications created on your iPhone.

If you give Jot your name, it's stored on your iPhone and used only to greet you in the app and in its notifications.

Sorting on your iPhone (the default)

To decide whether something is a note, task, reminder or event, and when it's due, Jot uses Apple's on-device model (Apple Intelligence). Nothing is sent anywhere. If Apple Intelligence is off or unavailable, captures are saved as notes and sorted once it's available.

Sorting with Claude (optional, only if you choose it)

In Jot's Settings you can choose Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, for sorting instead. Choosing it, with this explained on screen, is your permission to send. You can switch back to sorting on your iPhone at any time, and nothing is sent after that.

When Claude is chosen, each capture sends:

• the words you said (the transcript), never the audio;
• your current date, time, time zone and language, so times like "Thursday at 2" are right;
• the app version;
• a random ID created when Jot is installed, used only to stop any one install from making too many requests. It isn't linked to your name, Apple ID or device, and a reinstall creates a new one.

Jot's server runs on Vercel. It does not store or log what you said: it passes the words to Anthropic, returns the sorted item to your iPhone, and records only that a request succeeded or failed and how long it took. To limit abuse, it keeps short-lived counters of requests per install ID and per IP address in a rate-limiting store (Upstash). These counters expire within a day.

Anthropic processes the words under its commercial terms. Under those terms Anthropic does not use data sent through its API to train its models, and keeps it only for a limited period for safety and abuse monitoring. See Anthropic's privacy policy.

The "Jot This" Siri and Shortcuts action sorts the text you give it the same way: on your iPhone, or with Claude only if you've chosen it.

Your choices and deleting data

You can delete any item in Jot, which also deletes its recording. Deleting the app deletes everything Jot stored on your iPhone. Jot's server holds nothing you said, so there is nothing to request or delete there beyond the expiring rate-limit counters described above.

Children

Jot is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date, and material changes will be shown in the app. Questions: james@jamescronin.dev.