Privacy

Nothing.

Winnowed has no servers, no accounts, and no way to see your data. Everything you enter, including subscription names, costs, review decisions, notes, and receipts you scan, belongs to you.

Winnowed does sync that data between your own devices, through your own iCloud account. It goes to Apple, not to us, and it stays inside the part of iCloud only you can reach. There is more detail below.

• No accounts. No sign-in. No email address required to use the app.
• No analytics. No tracking. No telemetry.
• No servers of ours. Sync runs through your iCloud account, not through anything we operate.
• No third-party SDKs for advertising, analytics, or tracking.
• No data shared with anyone. Ever.

Your subscriptions, reviews, and price history sync across the devices signed in to your Apple Account. This uses your private iCloud database, the same mechanism Apple's own apps use.

That database belongs to you. Winnowed cannot read it, and neither can anyone else. There is no Winnowed server involved at any point, and nothing is sent to us. Apple encrypts the data in transit and at rest, and it is subject to Apple's privacy policy.

If you are not signed in to iCloud, Winnowed works exactly as before and keeps everything on your device. Settings will tell you which is happening. You can stop syncing at any time by turning Winnowed off under Settings, your name, iCloud, on your device. Data already synced stays in your iCloud account until you remove it there.

When you scan a statement or receipt, Winnowed reads it in one of two ways, both entirely on your device. On devices with Apple Intelligence, it uses Apple's on-device Foundation Models framework to understand what it is looking at. Everywhere else, it uses Apple's on-device Vision framework to extract text and matches patterns against it.

The reading itself happens on your phone in either case. No image is uploaded and no text is sent anywhere to be interpreted. What you choose to keep afterward becomes a subscription like any other, and syncs the same way.

Forward Receipts is an optional one-time purchase. It lets you select the text of a subscription receipt in Mail, Safari, or Notes and share it into Winnowed through the iOS share sheet.

The shared text is read by the same on-device parser that handles camera scans. No email and no image is uploaded, and nothing is forwarded to an address. What you add from it becomes a subscription like any other.

Winnowed can answer questions through Siri and can be driven by Shortcuts. These run on your device against your own data. Nothing about your subscriptions is sent to Apple or to us in order to answer them.

Winnowed also makes your subscriptions findable in Spotlight. To do that, subscription names and costs are added to the search index that iOS maintains on your device. That index is part of iOS rather than part of Winnowed, and it stays on your phone, but it does mean this information is reachable from system search as well as from inside the app. If you would rather it were not, you can turn Winnowed off under Settings, Apps, Siri and Search on your device.

Separately from sync, your device's standard iCloud backup may also include Winnowed's data, the same as any other app. That backup is controlled by Apple and Winnowed has no access to it either.

winnowed.app collects nothing. No analytics, no cookies, no third-party scripts.

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted here and the effective date above will change. No silent updates.

Questions, concerns, or anything else: [email protected].

Kurt Klein, Berwyn, Pennsylvania