Remora
Remora has no backend. There is no server that holds your data, because there is no server at all. No account, no login, no cloud, no company database. Your memories are never uploaded, so there is nothing for anyone to breach, sell, hand over, or lose.
That is not a policy choice we could quietly reverse. It is how the app is built. This document is short because there is almost nothing to tell you, and we think that shortness is the most useful thing on this page.
Everything you save stays on your iPhone: your typed notes, your voice recordings and their transcripts, your photos, the text Remora reads out of those photos, the places you save, and the titles and tags Remora works out for you.
All of it is written into Remora's own storage on your device. Your photos and recordings are protected by iOS Data Protection, which means they are unreadable while your iPhone is locked.
If you use an iPhone backup, your memories are included in it, so you do not lose them if you lose your phone. That backup belongs to you and goes to your own iCloud account or your own computer, never to us. If you back up to a Mac, we recommend ticking "Encrypt local backup", because an unencrypted backup on a computer is not protected the way your iPhone is.
Two things that are not memories are also stored, and they are stored the same way: on your iPhone and nowhere else. The last few searches you typed, so the search screen can offer them back to you, and a short list of searches that came back with nothing. Remora discards that second list after 30 days. Neither one is ever sent anywhere, so we never see either of them, and neither is part of an export. Settings has a control that clears your recent searches.
Remora makes two outbound connections of its own, and neither of them can carry your memories. The third item below is not Remora reaching out at all. It is you sending something, deliberately, to somewhere you picked. Here is all of it.
When you open a memory that has a location, Remora shows you a map. That map is Apple Maps, and Apple has to send the map pictures to your iPhone. To do that, your iPhone tells Apple which part of the world to draw.
So: if you open a saved location, Apple sees a request for a map of that area, along with your IP address, the same way any app or website showing a map would. Apple handles that request under Apple's own privacy policy. It never reaches us, and it never travels with anything else: not the note attached to that place, not the photo, not the transcript, not your other memories. If you never save a location, this never happens at all.
If you buy the yearly plan or the lifetime unlock, Apple handles the purchase. Apple is the seller. Your Apple ID and your payment details are typed into Apple's own screens and are never visible to Remora. We receive sales figures from Apple that tell us how many copies were sold. We do not receive your name, your email address, or your payment details.
If you share a memory, or export a copy of everything, your iPhone hands that file to whatever you chose: Messages, Mail, Files, another app. That one does carry your memories, because carrying them is what you asked it to do. Remora never picks the destination, never suggests one and never adds a recipient. It happens when you tap, to where you tapped, and nowhere else.
This policy and the terms are not a third connection. Both documents are inside the app as plain text, and Remora contains no web browser and opens no web pages, so there is nothing you can tap in the app that would fetch this page. The copy you are reading is published so the App Store has an address for it and so anyone can read it without installing anything.
When you speak to Remora, your voice is turned into text by Apple's on-device speech recognition, running on your iPhone. When you photograph a receipt or a serial number, the text is read out of the image on your iPhone. When Remora works out a title or a tag, that happens on your iPhone too. None of it is sent away to be processed.
Some languages do not have on-device speech recognition available on every iPhone. When that happens, Remora will tell you and save your recording as audio instead. It will not send your voice away to be transcribed somewhere else. That is a deliberate choice, and it is why this section is true without exceptions.
Remora asks for a permission only at the moment you use the feature that needs it, never on first launch. You can say no to any of them and keep using the app.
If you say no, Remora will not ask again and will not nag you. Typing a memory needs no permission at all, and search and your timeline work exactly the same either way.
When you delete a memory it goes to Trash for 30 days, so you can get it back if you made a mistake. After 30 days it is removed from Remora and the file is deleted from your iPhone's storage. You can also delete something immediately from Trash if you do not want to wait.
Two honest details. If you took a backup before you deleted something, that older backup still contains it until the backup is replaced or deleted. And if you saved a photo into your Photos library, deleting the memory in Remora does not remove that copy from Photos.
Deleting Remora from your iPhone removes everything it stored: your memories, your media files and your settings. Nothing is kept anywhere else, because there is nowhere else. The same two details above apply.
Privacy law gives you the right to see your data, correct it, take a copy of it, and have it deleted. Normally you would ask a company to do those things for you. With Remora there is nobody to ask, because we do not have your data.
None of these need our permission, our cooperation, or an email to us, and none of them can be delayed or refused by us.
One thing worth knowing about taking a copy. An export is a plain, unencrypted file containing everything, so anywhere you send it, it can be opened, and Remora's lock does not travel with it. The app says exactly that on screen before it builds one. Remora does not keep a copy for itself either: the file it builds sits in your iPhone's temporary storage and is cleared out again, at the latest the next time you open the app.
If you write to us for support, we have your email address and whatever you chose to tell us, for as long as it takes to help you and no longer than 12 months after the conversation ends. That inbox is the only place we ever hold anything about a person, and you can ask us to delete your messages at any time.
Please do not send us screenshots of your memories. We do not need them, and we would rather not have them.
Remora does not collect data from anyone, including children. There is no account to create, no profile to build and nothing transmitted to us.
For completeness, because you might notice them: if you have turned on "Share iPhone Analytics" and "Share With App Developers" in your iOS settings, Apple may send Apple crash reports about apps on your phone, including this one, and may show us a summary. Remora contains no crash reporting software of its own. You control this in iOS Settings, under Privacy and Security, then Analytics and Improvements. Your iPhone may also download a speech recognition language pack from Apple the first time you dictate in a new language. That request tells Apple which language, not what you said. And when you ask Remora to save a place, your iPhone works out where it is the way it does for any app, which can involve it checking with Apple about nearby networks. The position it works out comes back to Remora and stays on your iPhone.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and the version inside the app changes with it. If a change ever meant Remora started sending something new, it would be announced clearly in the app before it happened, not buried here.
Cem Gokce
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