Last updated 2026-05-07

Privacy Policy

Braisery is built around a simple posture: your recipes are yours, and the app does not collect data about you. The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected, and this page explains what that means in practice.

The short version

• No accounts, no logins, no email addresses required to use the app.
• No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs that collect data.
• No advertising. No data sold or shared with anyone, ever.
• iCloud sync, when you turn it on, goes Apple-to-Apple via your private CloudKit container — Braisery never sees the data.
• AI features, when you turn them on, use a key you provide yourself; the key is stored on your device in the iOS or macOS Keychain.

What stays on your device

Everything you create or import in Braisery — recipes, photos, cookbooks, shopping lists, timers, settings — is stored locally on your device using Apple's SwiftData framework. Recipe photos live in the app's Documents directory. None of this leaves your device unless you explicitly choose to sync it, export it, or share it.

iCloud sync (optional)

If you turn on iCloud sync in Settings, Braisery uses Apple's CloudKit framework to mirror your library between your own Apple devices. Your data flows through your private CloudKit container — Apple's infrastructure, scoped to your Apple ID, with no third party in the path. Braisery does not have access to your iCloud data and cannot read it.

You can turn iCloud sync off at any time. Your local library stays intact.

AI features (optional, BYOK)

Some optional features in Braisery use third-party AI providers (such as Anthropic). These features only work if you provide your own API key. The key is stored on your device in the Keychain and is sent directly to the AI provider's API when you use the feature — Braisery has no servers in between, and we never see the key or the requests.

If you don't add a key, the AI features are unavailable and no AI-related network requests are made.

Recipe imports

When you import a recipe by pasting a URL, Braisery's import flow fetches that page directly from your device to extract the recipe data. No Braisery server is involved. Your import history is stored locally and is never transmitted anywhere.

Network calls Braisery makes

The only outbound network calls the app makes are:

• Fetching a recipe URL you paste or share into the app.
• If you enabled iCloud sync, talking to Apple's CloudKit servers.
• If you enabled AI features and added your own key, talking to the AI provider you chose.

That's it. There are no analytics endpoints, no crash reporters, no attribution SDKs, no fingerprinting libraries.

Diagnostics & crash reports

Apple's standard "Share with App Developers" setting (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements on iOS, equivalent on Mac) may forward anonymized crash reports to Apple, who in turn may surface them to us in App Store Connect. This is an Apple-mediated, opt-in channel — no Braisery code initiates it. You can disable it in Apple's system settings at any time.

Children

Braisery is rated 4+ in the App Store and contains no third-party content, ads, or in-app communication. Because the app collects no data, it collects no data from children.

Your rights

Because Braisery does not collect, store, or process personal data on our servers, there is no profile to access, correct, or delete. You can export your full library to JSON at any time from Settings → Export, and you can delete the app to remove all local data from your device.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top and note the change in the app's release notes. Material changes — for example, ever adding a feature that does collect data — would be communicated clearly and would require your action to enable.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Get in touch via support or email hello@braisery.com.