AirDigest
Privacy policy
AirDigest writes short articles from reels, on your device. We collect nothing: there's no account, no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads and no tracking, and we run no server for the app. The App Store label is Data Not Collected. Settings › Privacy and the internet has a short version.
What uses the internet
- Watching the reel. When you paste or share a reel's link, your iPhone asks Instagram for the public post and holds its video only while AirDigest watches it. Instagram sees the request, your device's IP address and that it comes from AirDigest, but not your Instagram account. The video is deleted as soon as it has been watched.
- Reading a page the reel links to. If the caption or the screen shows a link, your iPhone reads up to 3 linked pages, as a browser would. If one page clearly matches the reel, its title, its link and a short quote stay with the article; everything else is dropped. Settings › Read linked pages turns this off.
- Your iCloud. While Settings › Sync with iCloud is on (on by default with an iCloud account), your articles, with their stills, and your Reader settings sync through your own private iCloud database. Apple keeps them; we can't read them. Your free count is in your iCloud Keychain. Reels waiting to be read, videos and your pass never sync.
Nothing else goes online. Writing, maps, reading aloud and search happen on your device. No article is written in the cloud, not even Apple's.
What's kept
- Each article: its text, map, topic, tags and your line; the reel's link and the creator's handle; what was said, what was on screen and the caption; one still as its cover; for a matching page, its title, link and one short quote.
- Your settings, and which articles come back when.
- A video waiting to be watched sits in temporary storage, outside your backups, and is removed when it has been watched or when you cancel it. A job that is interrupted keeps its audio or frames there until it resumes.
Your library is in AirDigest's own storage, in your device's backups, like any app's data, and in your own iCloud while Sync with iCloud is on. We never see it.
Not ours
- Buying a pass goes through the App Store. We receive no payment or personal details.
- Links you open go to Instagram, Safari, Maps, Books, TV, Podcasts, Music or YouTube, in those apps. AirDigest makes no request for them.
- Sharing a reel happens in Instagram's app, so Instagram can see that you shared it.
- When you share an article as text, the app you send it with may fetch a preview of the reel's link from Instagram. Images carry no link.
- Look Up, Ask Siri and Writing Tools are Apple's, and Apple decides where they run. Nothing from them comes to us.
- Report a problem and Contact us open Mail, filled in with the article's title and link, or the app's version; you can edit it, and nothing goes until you send it. Mail you send us is used only to answer you.
Permissions
Photos, add only: to save an article's slides when you ask. AirDigest can't see your library. Choosing a video from Photos uses the system picker, which gives AirDigest only that video.
Clearing your data
- Swipe an article to delete it, here and in your iCloud.
- Settings › Delete everything removes your articles, maps and lines. Your pass and your free count stay.
- Deleting the app removes what is on the device, except your free count in the Keychain. It doesn't remove the copy in your iCloud: delete that in the iPhone's Settings › your name › iCloud.
This website
airdigest.app runs no analytics, has no scripts and loads nothing from other sites. It uses your device's own fonts. One cookie, lang, remembers the language you chose, for a year; it's only for that. The site is served by Cloudflare, which handles each request to deliver the page, as any web host does. We don't use its analytics and keep no visitor logs of our own.
Children
AirDigest collects no data from anyone, children included.
Changes and questions
If this policy changes, we update this page and the date above. For questions, write to support@airdigest.app.