Privacy Policy
The short version
Sapota does not collect, transmit, sell, or share any personal data. Nothing you say leaves your iPhone. There is no account, no server, no analytics, no advertising, and no third‑party code in the app. Everything you say, and everything the app works out from it, is stored on your iPhone and nowhere else. We cannot see it, and we have built the app so that we never could.
This policy is short because there is nothing to disclose. The rest of the page explains what the app touches on your phone, and why, so you can check the claim against the permissions iOS asks you for.
What we collect
Nothing. The app makes no network requests. It is built without networking frameworks and contains no software from other companies. The only web address inside it is a link to a directory of crisis helplines, which opens in your browser only if you tap it.
Where your data lives
Your recordings’ transcripts, the app’s notes about them, and your settings are stored in the app’s own storage on your iPhone, protected by the device’s encryption. Sapota does not sync any of it to iCloud or to any other service. Your own iPhone backup may include the app’s data, under Apple’s backup encryption and Apple’s privacy policy, in the same way as any app you use.
What the app touches, and why
| Permission | What Sapota does with it | Leaves the phone? |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone | Records your voice for as long as you are speaking, then stops on its own when you pause. The recording is transcribed on the device and then deleted, including when transcription fails. Sapota keeps the words, never the audio. | No |
| Speech recognition | Transcribes your voice using Apple’s on‑device speech engine. Sapota requires on‑device recognition; if a device cannot provide it, the app declines to record and offers the keyboard instead, rather than sending audio to a server. | No |
| Apple Health (read) | Optional, and only offered after you have used the app for a while. Reads daily sleep, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, respiratory rate, and time in daylight, so it can go easier on you after a short night. Health data is used only inside the app, is never used for advertising or marketing, and is never sold or shared with anyone. | No |
| Apple Health (write) | Optional. If you turn it on, Sapota logs the feeling it heard in each capture as a State of Mind entry in the Health app, so your other Apple devices and Health features can see it. You can turn this off at any time. | No (stays within Apple Health on your devices) |
| Calendar | Optional. Reads event titles and times so it can offer a capture before a big day and ask how it went afterwards. Events are read, not stored, and never written. | No |
| Location | Optional, and off unless you switch it on. To turn where you are into a word like “Office”, Sapota asks Apple’s geocoder, which is a network service. That request carries your coordinates and is the one thing in the app that leaves the device. It is covered by Apple’s privacy policy. Coordinates are not stored, and nothing you said is ever included. | Yes — coordinates only, to Apple |
| Contacts | Optional. If you name a support person, such as a therapist, you pick them from your contacts. The name and details you choose are stored in the app only. | No |
| Notifications | Local notifications scheduled on the phone itself. There is no push server. Sapota sends at most three prompts a week, never between 10pm and 8am, and stops a kind of prompt by itself if you ignore it four times. | No |
| Face ID | Optional. Locks the app, and always locks the page meant for your therapist, so no one else can read it. | No |
Exports and the session page
You can export everything as readable text or as a complete archive, and you can create a one‑page brief for a therapist. These files are created on your phone and handed to the iOS share sheet, where you choose where they go. If you send one by email or message, that service’s privacy policy applies to the copy you sent. Temporary copies are removed from the phone the next time Sapota launches.
Deleting your data
Settings → Delete everything removes every capture, every note the app made, every pending notification, and every setting. Deleting the app from your iPhone does the same. There is nothing to delete anywhere else, because there is nothing anywhere else.
Crisis support
If something you say matches a plain list of phrases that suggest you may be at risk, Sapota shows a fixed message with one‑tap ways to call or text a crisis line, such as 988 in the US and Canada. This check runs on the phone, and choosing to call or text opens the Phone or Messages app in the normal way.
Apple
If you have chosen in iOS Settings to share analytics and crash reports with app developers, Apple may send us aggregated, anonymised crash and usage statistics for Sapota. This is controlled by you in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements, and it is governed by Apple’s privacy policy. It never includes what you said.
This website
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Children
Sapota is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will appear here with a new effective date. Because the app has no way of contacting you, please check this page if you want to know.
Contact
Rithik Porandla, hello@getsapota.com.