WristBrief Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 3, 2026

WristBrief records your day on Apple Watch, and meetings on iPhone too, and helps you look back on it on iPhone. It has no server of its own, no account and no ads. Recordings, transcripts, reviews and memories stay on your own Apple Watch and iPhone; the developer never receives them. The only things the app sends the developer are anonymous usage statistics and crash reports, described below.

What WristBrief handles, and where

• Microphone recordings. Recorded only when you start recording: on Apple Watch, sent to your iPhone over the system's watch connection and deleted from the watch once they arrive; or, for a meeting, on the iPhone itself, kept there directly. While the iPhone records, the system's microphone indicator, a red bar in WristBrief and a Live Activity show it, and Stop ends it.
• Transcripts. Made on your iPhone by Apple's on-device speech recognition, and kept only on that iPhone.
• Voiceprints. A set of numbers describing how each voice sounds, computed on your iPhone by a model built into the app, used only to tell speakers apart, and kept only on that iPhone. They are not used to identify who anyone is.
• Heart rate. Read from Health, only with your permission, to show it beside the day's transcript. WristBrief never writes to Health.
• Daily reviews and memories. Made by Apple's on-device model by default, and kept only on your iPhone. You can edit, switch off or delete any memory.
• Location, only if you add places. Places are optional: quiet places, such as a clinic, where your Apple Watch stops recording, and places to record, such as the office, where it asks whether to start. When you add one, WristBrief reads your iPhone's current location once, with your permission, and saves that point, a name and a radius on the iPhone. With "Always" permission, iOS tells WristBrief when you arrive at or leave one of those places, even while it's closed. Your location never leaves the iPhone for this: the watch is told only the place's name, so it can stop recording or ask to start. Delete a place, or turn off location for WristBrief in Settings, at any time.
• Places you go, only if you turn it on. "Note where you go" in Settings is off unless you turn it on. Then, with "Always" permission, iOS tells WristBrief when you arrive at and leave places you spend time at (the system's visit monitoring, not continuous tracking), and WristBrief keeps each visit's place and times on this iPhone; and when a recording comes in from your watch or is made on the iPhone, it notes where the iPhone is, so every recording belongs to a place. A day's page shows them on a map with what you did there, the map shows every recording where it was made, and reviews know where things were said. To name a place you haven't named yourself, its coordinates are sent once to Apple Maps, under Apple's privacy policy (https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/); nothing else about you goes with them, and nothing goes to the developer. Visits go when you delete their day or everything, and after a year at most. Turn it off at any time; visits already kept stay until you delete them.
• Calendar, only with your permission. With "Brief me before meeting someone" on, WristBrief reads upcoming events on this iPhone to find meetings with people you've named, and reminds you half an hour before of what's still open between you. With "Ask to record meetings" on, it finds the week's events with other people, and your Apple Watch asks a minute before each whether to record: for that, only each meeting's title and time go to your own Apple Watch. Nothing else from your calendar is stored, and nothing leaves your iPhone and watch. Turn either off in Settings, or remove calendar access in iOS Settings, at any time.
• Day pictures, only if you turn them on. With "Day pictures" on in Settings → AI and a cloud service you set up (Qwen or another), short descriptions of a comic page for a day, a panel for each part of it, are written from that day's review, from what Memory keeps about the people and things in your life so they look the same from day to day, and from the country people and places should look like (the one you choose, or else the one the language of your recordings suggests, or your iPhone's region), by the same model as the review. Some panels also get a speech bubble: a few words in your language that sum up what the moment came to, written by the model, never words that were said and never a name. Only those descriptions and bubbles, with the names you gave voices taken out, are sent to the service to draw the picture, straight from your iPhone with your own key. Once on, a picture is drawn after each of the last couple of days is reviewed, unless you turn that off too. The picture and its descriptions are kept only on this iPhone, outside iCloud backup, and go when you delete the day.
• Search. Transcripts are added to iOS's own search index on this iPhone, so the Home Screen's search can find what was said. The index never leaves the iPhone, and nothing is indexed while WristBrief is locked.

Original audio is excluded from iCloud backup.

Anonymous usage statistics

Nothing below is sent until you agree to this policy and the Terms of Use (link), the first thing the app asks; WristBrief can't record before that either.

To learn which features are used and whether they work, the iPhone app sends anonymous events through Google Firebase Analytics: for example that a recording arrived from the watch (with its length in minutes and how many moments were marked), that a day was reviewed or a question answered (with which kind of model, and how many sentences the answer cited), that a backup was made (with or without audio and a password), or that something failed (with the kind of error only).

These events never contain recordings, transcripts, names, memories, your questions or their answers, places, or the text of error messages. The app doesn't collect the advertising identifier or the identifier for vendor, doesn't turn on advertising features, and doesn't track you across apps or websites. Firebase assigns the installation a random identifier that isn't linked to your identity; it also receives your device's model, system version, language and approximate region (from the network address), as all apps using it do. If the app crashes, a crash report is sent through Google Firebase Crashlytics: where in the app's code it happened, the device model, system version and free memory and storage. It contains nothing you recorded or wrote. Google processes the data under its own privacy policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy). Deleting the app removes the identifier.

To tell you when a newer version is out, the iPhone app asks the App Store, at most once a day, which version of WristBrief is current; the request names only the app, and goes to Apple. It also reads one setting from Google Firebase Remote Config, the oldest version still allowed to run, so that a version with a serious problem can ask you to update; this uses the same random installation identifier as Analytics and sends nothing else.

Cloud AI you choose yourself

In Settings you can switch to a cloud model, such as DeepSeek, Qwen or another compatible service, using your own API key. If you do:

• the transcript text needed for a review or an answer is sent directly from your iPhone to the provider you chose, with no WristBrief server in between;
• audio never leaves your devices;
• the provider's own privacy policy applies to that text;
• your API key is kept in the iPhone's Keychain, on that device only.

The developer has no relationship with these providers and never receives this text.

Backup files

You can make a backup file in Settings and save it wherever you choose. If you set a password, the file is encrypted with it, and nobody can open it without the password, the developer included; a forgotten password can't be recovered. Without a password the file isn't encrypted, so keep it somewhere private.

Recording other people

Recording other people's conversations can require their consent, and the law differs from place to place. Let people know, and pause WristBrief when a conversation isn't yours to keep. You are responsible for how you record.

Third-party SDKs

WristBrief includes only these three third-party SDKs, all from Google's Firebase, and starts them only after you agree to this policy; when you withdraw consent they stop collecting and sending at once.

WristBrief collects neither the advertising identifier (IDFA) nor the identifier for vendor (IDFV), and includes no advertising SDK. Cloud AI services are used only when you choose one, as described above; transcription and the default reviews and answers run on device with Apple's own frameworks.

Permissions

WristBrief asks for a permission only when a feature needs it. You can decline any of them, or turn them off at any time in the iPhone's Settings → WristBrief; declining affects only that feature.

Withdrawing consent

You can withdraw your agreement to this policy and the Terms of Use at any time in WristBrief's Settings → Privacy and security → Withdraw consent. Recording then stops on your iPhone and Apple Watch, and nothing more is collected or sent, anonymous statistics and crash reports included, until you agree again. What's already on your devices stays, to keep or delete.

Legal bases and your rights

Where the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to you: anonymous usage statistics, crash reports and reading the lowest version allowed rest on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), given in the app and withdrawable there at any time with effect for the future. Everything else described above happens on your own devices and doesn't reach the developer. Google may process data in the United States, relying on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection. Since the developer receives no recordings and no data that identifies you, you can exercise most of these directly in the app, by deleting content or withdrawing consent. For anything else, email bulayunkeji@gmail.com. You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority.

Deleting your data

You can delete a recording, a whole day, or everything at any time. Deleting the app removes everything it stored on your devices, except backup files you saved elsewhere.

Children

WristBrief isn't directed at children under 14.

Changes

If this policy changes, this page will be updated along with the date above. When it changes in a way that matters, the app asks you to agree again before you go on using it.

Contact

Email bulayunkeji@gmail.com. Questions, complaints and requests about personal information are answered within 15 working days.