Privacy Policy

MindBlink is built on a simple conviction: your thoughts are yours. This policy explains, in plain language, what MindBlink collects, where it lives, and the control you have over it. Wherever this document and the app's behavior could differ, the app's privacy-first design is the intent we hold ourselves to.

The short version

• No account. You don't sign up. There is no MindBlink login, profile, or password.
• On-device intelligence. Transcription, analysis, time parsing, connections, and Echoes run on your iPhone — not on our servers.
• Your iCloud, not ours. If you keep iCloud enabled, your thoughts sync privately through your own Apple account. We don't operate a database of your content.
• No ads, no tracking, no selling. We don't run advertising, we don't track you across apps or the web, and we never sell your data.
• You can leave with everything. Export all your data, or permanently delete it, at any time.

What MindBlink stores

The content you create stays in MindBlink's local database on your device (and, if enabled, your private iCloud). This includes:

• Thoughts — the text of what you captured, an optional audio recording of a voice capture, and timestamps.
• Derived metadata — the people, places, dates, action items, urgency, sentiment, and triggers that on-device analysis extracts from a thought, used to schedule reminders and surface connections.
• Saved places — locations you choose to save (such as home or work) so location-based reminders can work. These are stored to power geofenced reminders you set up.
• Preferences & usage signals — settings and lightweight, on-device usage patterns (for example, your typical capture times) that let features like the daily digest tune themselves. These stay on your device.

MindBlink does not require, request, or store your name, email, phone number, or contacts to function.

On-device processing

The intelligence that makes MindBlink feel magical runs locally, using Apple's frameworks:

• Speech recognition prefers Apple's on-device recognizer to transcribe your voice. In some configurations iOS may use Apple's speech services to improve recognition; this is governed by Apple's policies and your device settings, and MindBlink prefers the on-device path.
• Analysis and pattern detection — natural-language understanding, sentiment, time parsing, Thought Connections, and Echoes — are computed on your device.
• Apple Intelligence (iOS 26+). On supported devices, MindBlink can use Apple's on-device Foundation Models to phrase digests and explanations. This processing happens on your device; MindBlink does not send your thoughts to a MindBlink server for analysis.

iCloud sync

If you're signed into iCloud and have it enabled for MindBlink, your thoughts sync across your own Apple devices through Apple's CloudKit private database. That data lives in your iCloud account, under Apple's security and encryption, and is accessible to you — not to MindBlink as a company. You can turn this off in iOS Settings, in which case MindBlink keeps your data only on the device. We do not maintain our own cloud copy of your thoughts.

Permissions we request

MindBlink asks only for what a feature needs, and only when it's relevant:

• Microphone & Speech Recognition — required for voice capture and transcription. Without them, you can still capture by text.
• Notifications — optional, used to deliver reminders and the daily digest. If you decline, MindBlink tells you plainly and keeps working without them.
• Location — optional, used only for "when I arrive" reminders and saved places. "Always" access enables background geofencing; if it's unavailable, MindBlink explains the limitation instead of failing silently.

You can change any of these at any time in iOS Settings → MindBlink.

Sharing & third parties

MindBlink does not sell, rent, or share your thoughts with third parties for advertising or marketing. The only "third party" involved in normal use is Apple — through on-device frameworks and, if you enable it, your own iCloud. When you choose to export or share a thought (for example via the share sheet), that content goes wherever you send it.

Your controls

• Export — produce a full copy of your thoughts as JSON, CSV, or plain text from within the app.
• Delete — remove any thought, or permanently delete all thoughts and all saved locations, with a confirmation step.
• Permissions — grant or revoke microphone, speech, notifications, and location access in iOS Settings.
• Sync — disable iCloud for MindBlink to keep everything on a single device.

Children

MindBlink is not directed to children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we materially change how MindBlink handles your data, we'll update this page and revise the date above. Because MindBlink's design keeps your content on your device and in your iCloud, our north star won't change: your thoughts are yours.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email privacy@mindblink.app.

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