Your day stays with you

Who we are

DayRecall is an app for iPhone and Apple Watch, for people who forget things. In this policy, “DayRecall”, “we” and “us” mean the developer of the app and of this website. Questions about privacy go to support@dayrecall.com.

On your devices

Apple Watch

During the listening hours you choose, a small speech model on the watch keeps only the moments when someone is talking, as compressed audio. The watch hands them to your iPhone about every two hours, and when it stops listening, over Apple’s own connection between the two devices, not through any server of ours. Each one is deleted from the watch once your iPhone confirms it arrived.

iPhone

Your iPhone turns speech into text with Apple’s speech recognition, on the device. Each piece of audio is deleted as soon as its text is saved. If turning a piece into text fails, its audio is kept so you can try again, until that works or you delete the recording. The same goes for recording with the iPhone and for audio files you import (DayRecall works on its own copy of the file).

Your iPhone keeps:

• the text of each day, with when it was said and which device heard it;
• the to-dos, deadlines and meetings picked out of it, and what you did with each;
• your settings, such as your listening hours;
• if you turn them on, the places of your day and your voiceprint (both below).

Questions you ask, and their answers, aren’t saved; they are kept only while the app is running. DayRecall’s files use iOS data protection, so they can’t be read until the iPhone has been unlocked once after it starts.

If you turn on Stand by to take over, the iPhone’s microphone stays on during your listening hours without keeping anything, so the iPhone can start recording at once if your watch stops.

For testing, Settings › Developer options has a switch, Keep audio after transcription, that is off unless you turn it on. While it’s on, new recordings keep their audio on your iPhone, to play or export from the recording’s page, until you delete the recording or tap Delete kept audio.

Backups

If you use iCloud Backup, or back up your iPhone to a computer, iOS includes DayRecall’s data in that backup: the text, to-dos and places, and any audio still on the iPhone. Your voiceprint and the app’s logs are left out. Backups are made and kept by Apple or by your computer, not by us.

Answers and to-dos

Unless you choose otherwise, DayRecall answers with Apple’s on-device model, part of Apple Intelligence, so your questions and transcripts stay on your iPhone. DayRecall picks out to-dos, deadlines and meetings on the iPhone with that same model, and never sends your day to a cloud service to do it.

Your own cloud API

In Settings › Answer with, you can choose My own API: an OpenAI-compatible service that you pick, with your own key. Before anything is sent, DayRecall shows you what will go to that address and asks you to allow it; if you change the address, it needs your OK again. After that, each question sends the service:

• your question;
• for a question about your day, also the current date, time and time zone, and short excerpts of transcript that match it (up to about 12,000 characters), each with the date and time it was recorded and the device that heard it.

It never sends audio, your whole library, your voiceprint or your places, and it sends nothing while you aren’t asking. Test connection sends one fixed test message, with nothing from your memories. Your key stays in the iOS Keychain on this iPhone.

The service handles what it receives under its own terms and may store it, so choose one you trust with what you record, including what other people said. Stop sharing with …, in the same place, ends it at any time and moves answers back to your iPhone.

Handing a day to an AI app

Hand the day to an AI app turns a day into a text file: what was said and when, the Me and Other labels if you mark who is speaking, the places if you’ve turned them on, and the question you pick. You choose where it goes in the iOS share sheet, or you copy it. DayRecall sends nothing itself; the app you choose handles the file under its own privacy policy.

In the Shortcuts app, Hand today to an AI copies today’s conversations to the clipboard of this iPhone only, and the copy is cleared after an hour. Bring the AI’s answer back reads the clipboard only when you tap it and allow the paste. It keeps the to-dos it finds there for you to confirm, not the answer itself.

Who said what

Mark who is speaking needs about a minute of your voice, recorded once in My voice. From it, DayRecall makes a voiceprint: a short list of numbers about how your voice sounds, not a recording. The recording is deleted as soon as the voiceprint is made. The voiceprint stays on this iPhone: it’s never sent anywhere, and it’s left out of backups and iCloud.

Other people’s voices are compared on the spot and never saved; their numbers (Other 1, Other 2) start over in every conversation. Delete my voice removes your voiceprint at any time.

Places

Places are off until you turn on Show the day on a map in Settings › Places. iOS then asks you for location access; choosing Always lets places be noted while DayRecall is closed. DayRecall notes where you stay (when you arrived and left, the coordinates and a place name) and keeps it on your iPhone.

To name places and draw maps, DayRecall uses Apple Maps, so Apple receives the locations it looks up and shows, under Apple’s privacy policy. Turning places off stops new ones from being noted; Delete all memories removes those already noted.

Calendar, Reminders and notifications

Nothing reaches your calendar or Reminders until you confirm it.

• An event you confirm opens in the iOS New Event screen. When you add the week plan’s events, they go to your calendar once you’ve allowed DayRecall to add events.
• Add confirmed to-dos to Reminders, off by default, adds the to-dos you confirm to Reminders, and ticks them off there when you do in DayRecall.
• Name the timeline after meetings, off by default, reads your calendar’s event names on the iPhone to label parts of the day. They’re never sent anywhere.

Once added, events and reminders belong to Calendar and Reminders, which sync them with the accounts you’ve set up there, such as iCloud, Google or Outlook.

Notifications, such as the evening list of things to confirm and reminders of due to-dos, are scheduled on your iPhone and Apple Watch, with no server in between. Turn each kind on or off in Settings › Notifications.

Logs and crash reports

DayRecall has no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party code that collects data.

To help fix problems, the app keeps a log on your iPhone and Apple Watch of what it did: counts, durations, settings and errors. It never contains what was said, your questions or answers, names, places or calendar titles. The log is kept for up to 14 days and left out of backups. When DayRecall crashes or freezes, iOS tells the app afterwards, and that goes into the same log. The log leaves your iPhone only if you share it yourself, from Settings › Developer options › Logs › Share log.

If you’ve turned on Share With App Developers in the iPhone Settings app (Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements), Apple also shares crash reports and usage statistics for DayRecall with us, under Apple’s terms.

Beta testing with TestFlight

If you test a beta of DayRecall through TestFlight, Apple collects crash logs and usage information, such as installs, sessions and crashes, your device model and system version, and shares them with us. If you were invited by email, we also see your name and that email address; if you joined through a public link, we don’t. Feedback you send through TestFlight, with any screenshots, comes to us too. Apple explains this in TestFlight & Privacy. We use it only to fix and improve DayRecall.

This website

dayrecall.com uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts or fonts. It’s hosted on GitHub Pages, and GitHub logs each visitor’s IP address for security purposes, as GitHub’s documentation describes, under the GitHub Privacy Statement.

What reaches us

Only what you choose to send us, and what Apple shares as described above: emails to support@dayrecall.com, logs you send us, and TestFlight feedback. We use them to help you and to fix and improve DayRecall. We don’t sell them, use them for ads or share them with anyone else, unless the law requires it. We keep them only as long as we need them for that, and delete them sooner if you ask.

Deleting your data

• Delete one recording, with its text and to-dos, from its page: Delete recording.
• Settings › Privacy › Delete all memories removes every recording, transcript, to-do and place from your iPhone, along with the search index.
• Delete my voice removes your voiceprint.
• Deleting DayRecall from your iPhone and Apple Watch removes everything it stored on them. Copies in an earlier backup stay until that backup is replaced or deleted. If you saved a key for your own API, tap Remove saved key first: iOS can keep keys in the Keychain after an app is deleted.

Events and reminders you added stay in Calendar and Reminders until you delete them there. We hold no copy of your data, so there’s nothing to delete on our side; for anything you’ve sent us, write to support@dayrecall.com. You can change microphone, location, calendar, reminders and notification access at any time in the iPhone Settings app.

The people around you

DayRecall keeps what the people around you say. Tell them it’s listening, and follow the rules where you are: some places require everyone’s consent, even when only text is kept.

Changes and contact

If DayRecall starts handling data differently, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. Questions, requests or worries about privacy: support@dayrecall.com.