Privacy policy.

The short version

Memori does not collect personal data. The app has no accounts, no analytics, and no advertising, and it does not use servers of its own. Your photos, calendar events, and settings stay on your device unless you choose to share a memory.

What the app reads, and why

Photos: with your permission, Memori looks through the photo library on your device to find pictures taken on this calendar day in past years. Photos are read locally and are never uploaded or analyzed anywhere else. If a photo is kept in iCloud rather than on your device, iOS may download it from your own iCloud library so Memori can show it. Memori also keeps small copies of some of these photos for its Home Screen widget, as described below.

Calendar: optionally, and with your permission, Memori reads the calendar on your device to show the plans you made alongside those photos. Events are not uploaded.

Notifications: if you turn on the daily reminder, Memori schedules local notifications on your device, only for mornings that have photos from past years. It finds those mornings by checking your photo library on the device. No push servers are involved.

Face data

Memori does not collect, use, store, share, or retain face data. The app performs no face detection, facial recognition, or facial analysis of any kind, and it includes no technology capable of doing so.

Photos are found by the date and location information they already carry, and they are shown to you as pictures. Their contents — including any faces in them — are never scanned, measured, or turned into data. Because no face data is ever created or collected, there is nothing to use, nothing to share with anyone, and nothing to store, retain, or delete.

Place names

When a photo carries a location, Memori asks the operating system's built-in geocoding service (provided by Apple) to turn those coordinates into a short place name, like a neighborhood or city. Only the coordinates are sent, only to that system service, and the resulting name is cached on your device so each place is looked up once. Memori does not read or track your current location.

The Home Screen widget

So that its Home Screen widget can show a photo from the moment you add it, Memori saves small, square copies of photos for the coming week. For each day that has photos from past years, it copies one photo from each of up to ten of those years, and the widget takes turns showing them through the day. Next to each copy it keeps the words the widget shows with it, like the date and how many years ago it was. The copies are kept in a folder on your device that only Memori and its widget can open. They are left out of backups, and they never leave your device.

Memori makes these copies whenever it has access to your photos, whether or not the widget is on your Home Screen, and it replaces them as the days pass. When you hide a photo in Memori, the widget stops showing it. If you delete a photo in the Photos app or turn off photo access, the widget can keep showing the copies it already has until you next open Memori, which then replaces or deletes them. Deleting the app deletes them too.

What stays on your device

Your settings, favorites and hidden memories, daily streak, the dates the reminder skips, and cached place names are stored in the app's local storage. Memori keeps references to photos (identifiers) rather than the images themselves, with three exceptions, all kept on your device: the widget's small copies described above; copies of the photos you look at, sized to how they appear on screen, which the app keeps in its cache so they open quickly next time; and the image made for a memory card you share, which is left in the app's temporary folder. iOS can clear the cache and the temporary folder whenever it needs space. Deleting the app deletes all of this data.

Sharing

Sharing happens only when you choose it, and only what you pick is sent: a memory card (a new image made from the photo), a video as its original clip, or photos as their originals, through the system share sheet or Messages to the person or app you choose. A memory card shows a place name only if you tick Include location. Original photos and videos keep the details saved with them, which can include where they were taken. Memori itself does not post or publish anything, and apart from the requests to Apple that this policy describes, it doesn't send anything anywhere.

Tips

Memori is free, and a tip doesn't unlock anything. Memori contacts Apple's App Store only when you open the tip jar in Settings, to get the tip prices in your currency, and when you choose to leave a tip. Apple handles the payment, as it does for any in-app purchase. Memori only learns whether the tip went through, so it can say thank you. It never sees your name, your Apple Account, or how you paid, and it doesn't keep a record of tips.

Your choices

You can change photo, calendar, and notification permissions at any time in the iOS Settings app, and you can turn the calendar source or the daily reminder on and off inside Memori. You can also remove the Memori widget from your Home Screen at any time. Because everything is stored locally, deleting the app removes everything it has saved.

Children's privacy

Memori does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. The app has no data collection to begin with, so there is nothing to gather.

Changes & contact

If these practices ever change, this page will be updated and the date above revised. Questions and concerns are welcome at reesebrooks63@gmail.com.