Privacy Policy

Privacy by architecture: Chatter has no Studio AM account, ad network, cloud AI server, or third-party analytics SDK. Speech recognition, conversations, checked wording, recaps, Daily Rehearsal, and practice drills run on your iPhone or iPad. Studio AM does not receive your voice, transcript, practice history, product analytics, tracking data, or local feature counters. If you choose optional conversation-model or natural-voice files, the app downloads them directly from Hugging Face under the separate provider boundary in Section 2.

1. Information Chatter handles

1.1 Personal information

Chatter does not ask for a name, email address, profile, or Studio AM login. Studio AM does not collect a user or device identifier through the app.

Optional compatible conversation-model and natural-voice downloads connect directly to Hugging Face. Hugging Face may receive service-use and connection information under its own policy. Studio AM does not receive that provider information. See the Hugging Face Privacy Policy for its uses, retention, and deletion process.

1.2 Microphone and speech recognition

If you choose to speak, Chatter sends microphone audio only to Apple's on-device speech recognizer. Chatter requires on-device recognition; it does not retain the microphone audio. The resulting transcript and the duration of a spoken turn can be stored in your local conversation archive. You can type instead.

1.3 Conversations and coaching

Transcripts, partner replies, wording suggestions, explanations, recaps, speaking metrics, stars, and settings are stored in the app's local container. Chatter does not sync the archive through CloudKit. A downloaded conversation model is also stored in Chatter's app-local container, not a shared App Group. Conversation generation, Daily Rehearsal partner replies, checked wording, recaps, and Say It Again transcript matching run on a compatible model on the device. Practice Again returns an accepted phrase only from its saved local source.

1.4 Local counters

Chatter can keep anonymous event counts in local device settings, such as whether onboarding completed or a paywall was viewed. Those counts contain no conversation content or identifier and are not transmitted to Studio AM. The app contains no advertising, tracking, or third-party analytics SDK. The optional Hugging Face download boundary below does not mean Studio AM receives product analytics; it does not.

2. Network use

Chatter can use a connection for these limited paths:

• Optional model setup. If Apple's on-device model is not the available route, a supported device may request a fixed compatible-model file directly from Hugging Face. The model is stored in Chatter's app-local container, not a shared App Group. Model availability, download size, memory requirements, and free-storage requirements vary by device.
• Optional natural voice. A Pro owner can choose an on-device natural-voice download directly from Hugging Face. Its download and storage size can vary. After download, it reads partner replies on-device and does not change the microphone path.
• App Store services. Apple handles product loading, purchase, subscription status, and Restore Purchases.
• Links you open. Support email, legal pages, and other external links open only after your action and are then handled by the selected app or website.

Neither direct Hugging Face request contains microphone audio, a transcript, conversation, correction, recap, partner reply, metric, drill, or other practice content. For both optional download paths, Chatter conservatively declares the provider boundary exactly as follows: data categories CoarseLocation, OtherDiagnosticData, and ProductInteraction; linked=true; tracking=false; purposes AppFunctionality, Analytics, and Other. These labels describe data Hugging Face may collect for the download service under its own policy. They do not describe conversation or practice content, and they do not mean Studio AM receives product analytics or tracking data. Studio AM receives neither. After compatible model setup, practice and coaching work offline.

3. Purchases

Chatter has monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions with the same Pro feature level. Apple's purchase sheet shows the products actually available to you, their local prices, eligibility, renewal periods, and terms. A retired lifetime product is no longer offered, but Chatter still recognizes and restores it for verified earlier owners.

Apple processes purchases through the App Store. Studio AM does not receive your payment-card details. Manage or cancel a subscription in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions.

4. Your archive, export, and deletion

Saved conversations remain readable, searchable, exportable, and deletable without active Pro access. Export is built only when you request it and creates readable Markdown plus a lossless, versioned JSON file. Those files leave Chatter only through the system share or save destination you choose. Starting or continuing conversations and generating new replies or coaching require an active monthly or annual subscription or a restored legacy lifetime entitlement. There is no general free AI-practice tier.

Delete an individual conversation from Review or the archive. Deleting Chatter removes its local app container, subject to Apple's device backup and restoration controls.

5. Device requirements

Chatter requires iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 and a compatible on-device model path. Apple's built-in runtime may be available on some devices; another supported device with at least the required physical memory may be offered a local-model download. Chatter checks the actual device and model state during setup rather than promising support from a rough phone-generation label.

6. Children's privacy

Chatter does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. It has no Studio AM account, ad network, or tracking SDK. Optional direct conversation-model and natural-voice downloads remain subject to the separate Hugging Face provider disclosure in Section 2. A parent or guardian should manage the Apple Account, device permissions, App Store purchase settings, and optional downloads used by a child.

7. Changes to this policy

If Chatter's data practices change, this page will be updated and its effective date revised.

8. Contact

Privacy questions: [email protected]. For product details, see Chatter English speaking practice.