Privacy Policy

Local by default: Better Writing edits English with an on-device model. Studio AM does not receive your writing, operate a writing server, or require an account. Saved writing and study progress stay local unless you enable optional private iCloud sync. Writing leaves only through an Apple service or destination you explicitly choose. The direct Mac edition separately exchanges purchase and license metadata with Lemon Squeezy as described below.

1. Information Studio AM collects

Studio AM does not receive your writing through Better Writing. The app has no Studio AM account, advertising, third-party analytics, cross-app tracking, telemetry upload, or remote AI-processing log. If you buy or activate the direct-download Mac edition, Lemon Squeezy processes the purchase and license information described in sections 6 and 7. Studio AM may access that merchant record to provide access and support, prevent abuse, and meet tax, accounting, and legal obligations.

2. Data kept on the device

Better Writing stores saved sessions and turns, original and improved text, explanations and correction categories, dates, starred state, pending draft source text, study state, writing preferences, coach-plan progress, app settings, and notification preferences locally. Screenshot Reply temporarily stages a user-selected image or recognized transcript for the app handoff; the app does not upload either to Studio AM.

Anonymous aggregate funnel and model-quality counters (such as a paywall view, successful generation, or guardrail retry) are stored locally in UserDefaults. They contain no writing, account, advertising identifier, or device identifier and are never transmitted automatically. Internal builds may display or export those counts only through an explicit local action.

In the direct-download Mac edition, an activated Lemon Squeezy license record is stored in the macOS Keychain. It can include the license key, activation ID, owner-set computer name, license status and expiry, activation counts, customer email, and validation timestamps. This record is used only to grant and manage access on that Mac.

3. On-device AI and media processing

Rewriting, Draft mode, screenshot text recognition, Reply drafting, coaching, practice, and Ask Your Writing run on the device. Better Writing uses Apple’s built-in on-device model when available. Other supported devices may download a local model: approximately 0.9 GB on devices meeting the 3.5 GB memory floor, or approximately 2.6 GB on devices meeting the 5.5 GB memory floor. The app does not send prompts or output to a Studio AM or third-party AI server.

The microphone button uses Apple’s on-device-only speech recognizer to fill the English input field. Dictation audio is processed on the device and is not retained; the resulting transcript becomes ordinary local draft text. Read-aloud uses Apple’s installed system speech voices. Pro can optionally download a natural voice of about 320 MB; its synthesis also runs locally.

The prepared 1.2.4 (67) source offers fixed, user-started downloads directly from Hugging Face. Gemma comes from litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm revision 6e5c4f1e395deb959c494953478fa5cec4b8008f. The LFM deployment bundle comes from LiquidAI/LeapBundles revision e25183d6d4afe9cc0364c6330064d0744be5b5ec. That revision identifies the distributed LFM bundle; its repository does not publish a conversion manifest that cryptographically maps the bundle to a separate source-model commit, so Better Writing claims no stronger relationship.

Natural Voice attributes its base model to hexgrad/Kokoro-82M and requests deployment files from mweinbach/Kokoro-82M-Swift revision 98623f832fc74ac3e2eaf2074171af7ac364b183. No conversion or cryptographic mapping from that base model to those deployment files is claimed. Gemma and LFM inference and Kokoro synthesis run on-device after their files are ready.

4. Optional private iCloud sync

Sync with iCloud is off by default. If you enable it, Apple syncs supported saved writing and study progress through the app’s private CloudKit database in your Apple Account. Studio AM cannot view, query, or download that private database. Apple provides the service under your Apple Account settings and terms. Model files, the optional natural voice, and local diagnostic counters are not part of that sync.

5. App extensions, widgets, and shortcuts

The Share extension can save user-selected text or a conversation screenshot in the app’s private App Group container for manual opening in Better Writing. It does not edit or recognize text inside the extension. The main app checks access again before it edits text, recognizes a screenshot, or drafts a reply. If access is not confirmed, the original item is not edited. A pending handoff remains local until the app consumes or clears it, and it is not sent to Studio AM.

App Shortcuts can hand explicitly selected text or clipboard text to the main app through the same private container. Fresh improvement work still requires verified access and a compatible on-device model. Better Writing widgets read a small local entitlement mirror and deterministic grammar-rule content. They do not display saved writing. Tapping a widget can open the grammar library, subscription screen, or Improve Clipboard flow in the app. Siri and Shortcuts receive only the text or command you explicitly provide through Apple’s App Intents system.

6. Network use and external destinations

A connection may be used for:

• downloading a compatible on-device language model or optional natural voice;
• loading StoreKit plans and purchasing, restoring, or verifying access;
• in the direct-download Mac edition, opening Lemon Squeezy checkout when you choose it and activating, validating, or deactivating a license key;
• private iCloud sync for saved writing and study progress, but only after you enable it;
• opening App Store, subscription-management, Studio AM, support, privacy, terms, email, or cross-promotion links you tap;
• sharing or saving a user-created export through Apple’s system share sheet; and
• opening the exact declined Ask Your Writing question as a DuckDuckGo search in your default browser, only after you tap Search the web.

A Gemma, LFM, or Natural Voice request goes directly to Hugging Face and contains no writing, dictated audio, screenshot, transcript, or other saved app content. Hugging Face may process data it classifies as CoarseLocation, OtherDiagnosticData, and ProductInteraction, with linked=true, tracking=false, for AppFunctionality, Analytics, and Other purposes. Studio AM receives none of that provider data, analytics, or tracking. The provider describes its handling in the Hugging Face Privacy Policy. The main app's privacy manifest conservatively declares those three categories for the direct provider boundary; the Share and Widget extensions initiate no provider transfer and retain empty collected-data declarations.

For the direct-download Mac edition, activation sends the license key and the computer name set by its owner to Lemon Squeezy. Later validation sends the key and activation ID; deactivation sends those identifiers to release that Mac. Lemon Squeezy returns license status, expiry, activation metadata, and purchase metadata that can include customer name and email and order, customer, product, and variant identifiers. Better Writing keeps only the local fields listed in section 2. Studio AM and Lemon Squeezy may retain merchant records as needed to provide and administer the purchase. These requests use HTTPS and never include writing, drafts, screenshots, transcripts, or model output. See the Lemon Squeezy Privacy Policy.

The last two actions send content to the destination you choose. Better Writing does not fetch web-search results inside the app and never performs that search automatically.

7. Purchases and access

App Store editions offer monthly and annual auto-renewable subscriptions through Apple. Eligible new subscribers may receive a 3-day introductory trial; Apple determines eligibility and shows the current local price and renewal terms before purchase. Prices can change. A retired lifetime product is not sold to new customers but remains restore-only for verified earlier owners. Apple processes payment details; Studio AM does not receive card information.

The direct-download Mac edition can offer an annual subscription and trial through Lemon Squeezy when its checkout is open. Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record and processes checkout, payment, tax, customer, order, subscription, and license-key information under its terms and privacy policy. Better Writing does not receive or store full card details. Pasting a key and choosing Activate explicitly sends the license and device label for verification; periodic license validation may then run in the background, subject to an offline grace period. Direct checkout is currently unavailable while the store remains closed, but a manually issued key can still be activated.

8. Your access, export, and deletion controls

Previously saved sessions remain available without active access. You can read, search, copy, and individually delete them from All sessions. Both export actions remain available without a subscription under Your data in Settings and Archive settings.

Export my writing (Markdown) creates BetterWriting-sessions.md. It contains every saved session in newest-first order and each session’s turns in reading order, including original input, improved output, explanations, star state, a pending uncommitted draft, and distinct source notes such as the notes behind a saved Draft.

Export complete archive creates BetterWriting-complete-archive.json. It is the machine-complete copy of app-owned data: saved sessions and turns, unattached turns, pending fields and handoff identifiers, study and coach state, profile answers, preferences and other owned settings, App Group work, and a pending Reply payload when one exists. It is a portable record, not a promise of an in-app restore function.

Creating or continuing edits, drafts, replies, coaching, practice, reminders, model work, natural-voice playback, and other fresh writing features requires active Pro access or a restored lifetime entitlement. The system voice can still read a result that was saved before access ended.

Export files are created locally and handed to Apple’s share sheet; the chosen destination controls any copy saved outside Better Writing. Deleting a session removes that app record and, if private iCloud sync is enabled, participates in Apple’s normal private-database synchronization. Uninstalling removes local app data but does not automatically delete exports you saved elsewhere or private iCloud data governed by your Apple Account.

Deleting writing does not delete Apple or Lemon Squeezy purchase and tax records. In the direct Mac edition, use Deactivate to release that Mac's license slot. Contact Studio AM for a request concerning merchant information Studio AM controls, and use Lemon Squeezy's privacy contact for information it controls.

9. App Lock and notifications

App Lock asks iOS to authenticate with the available device credential, Face ID, or Touch ID. Better Writing receives only success or failure, not biometric data. Optional writing reminders are local notifications. Paid reminder schedules are tied to verified access and are canceled or not scheduled beyond subscription expiry.

10. Children’s privacy

Better Writing is not directed at children under 13. Studio AM does not knowingly collect writing from children. Purchase and license providers may process the account and transaction information needed for a purchase or activation under their own age requirements and policies.

11. Changes to this policy

If Better Writing’s data practices change, this page will be updated and the effective date revised before the change ships.

12. Prepared local verification boundary

This policy covers the prepared Better Writing 1.2.4 build 67 source for iPhone, iPad, the Mac App Store, and the planned direct-download Mac edition. The app and its extensions display Better Writing; the Mac bundle ID is art.studioam.betterwriting. The macOS Info-macOS.plist SHA-256 is 067bde26dd1efdd542364be23ac2fef79cfcd0f2b6137c7e925c711065ea71ad and its BetterWritingMac.entitlements SHA-256 is 95932abc3efadb6362c584c5307f855bc54301bafabdd5191c2d25e4900fb2ab. Direct checkout remains closed until the Lemon Squeezy store is approved; the direct build's license API is otherwise active only for a key the customer explicitly enters. App Store builds do not construct or contact the Lemon Squeezy license service.

13. Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected]. You do not need to include private writing in a support request.

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