Effective May 23, 2026
Privacy Policy
YapJar is a voice journal for morning and night. You tap the mic, speak for a few seconds to a few minutes, and your phone turns your words into a written entry you can come back to. This page explains what data is involved, where it goes, and what we don't do with it.
What YapJar Does With Your Voice
When you record a yap, the audio is transcribed on your device by Apple's built-in speech recognition. The raw audio never leaves your phone and is not uploaded, stored, or sent to any server. Once transcription finishes, the audio is discarded.
The resulting transcript text is then sent to our backend so we can save your entry and process it. We use Anthropic's Claude (a large language model) to extract a short summary and a few tags from the transcript so your feed stays searchable and scannable. Anthropic processes the transcript on our behalf and does not use it to train their models.
Information We Collect
Account and authentication data. Your sign-in method (email, Apple, or Google), account identifiers, and authentication events. If you sign in with Apple, we receive only the identifiers Apple chooses to share with us.
Profile data. A handle you choose during onboarding, and optionally a profile picture you upload from your photo library.
Your yaps. The transcript of each voice memo, plus the AI-generated summary and tags. These are stored against your account so you can browse, search, and delete them later.
Subscription state. If you subscribe to YapJar, your purchase is processed by Apple and tracked by RevenueCat on our behalf. We see entitlement status (active or inactive) and the basic purchase event, never your payment details.
Usage and diagnostics. Product analytics events (e.g. "yap recorded," "entry deleted"), device type, app version, and crash/performance data, collected via PostHog. These help us understand whether the app is working and which features get used.
What We Don't Do
We don't sell personal data. We don't share data with advertising networks. YapJar ships with no third-party advertising SDKs, no cross-app tracking, and no data brokers. Apple's "Data Used to Track You" section in our App Store privacy label is empty for this reason.
We don't store your raw audio. We don't transcribe in the cloud. We don't read your yaps to train an AI model.
How We Use Information
We use the data above to run YapJar: authenticate you, save your entries, generate the summary and tags that make your feed useful, process subscriptions, prevent abuse, debug crashes, and understand whether the product is working.
Service Providers
YapJar runs on top of a small set of providers who process data on our behalf:
- Supabase — account, profile, and entry storage (Postgres).
- Anthropic — transcript extraction (summary + tags) via Claude.
- RevenueCat — subscription entitlement management.
- PostHog — product analytics and crash reporting.
- Railway — backend hosting.
- Apple — on-device speech recognition, Sign in with Apple, App Store payments.
- Google — Sign in with Google (only if you choose this method).
Your Choices
You can delete any individual yap from inside the app at any time — this removes the transcript, summary, and tags from our database. You can request full account deletion by emailing support; we will delete your account and all associated entries.
Some records (e.g. authentication logs, abuse signals, backups) may be retained for a limited period when required for security, legal compliance, or legitimate operations.
Children
YapJar is not directed to children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has created an account, we will delete it.
Changes
We may update this policy as YapJar evolves. Material changes will be posted here with a new effective date.
Contact
Questions, data requests, or anything else: email support@yapjar.com.