Privacy policy

Who we are

Acronymer is made by Ramify Studios (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the app does with information when you use it. If you have a question, email support@ramifystudios.com.

What we collect

Nothing. Acronymer has no account or sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking and no third-party analytics or advertising software development kits. We never receive your audio, your transcripts, your meetings or your glossary library.

Your microphone and speech

When you start listening, Acronymer uses your device’s microphone. Apple’s speech recognition turns the audio into text on your device, and Acronymer looks for acronyms and terms from your library in that text. The audio is never recorded, stored or sent anywhere.

You can turn microphone access off at any time: on iPhone and iPad in Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone, and on a Mac in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Microphone.

If your device doesn’t yet have Apple’s speech model for your language, Acronymer can ask the system to install it when you choose to. Apple downloads and manages that model under Apple’s privacy policy.

What stays on your device

Acronymer keeps the following in its own storage on your device. We never receive it. The optional Watch app can also show term names and meanings through notifications on your Watch, as described below.

• Your library and settings: the fields you use and their order, the acronyms, jargon, names, projects, teams, custom entry types and fields you add or import (including descriptions, aliases, pronunciation spellings and context keywords), your preferences, and terms you mark as “I know this.”
• Saved meetings: each meeting’s title, date and length, the fields it used, its glossary (each term, its meaning, how often it came up and the few words around where it was first heard) and any acronyms it didn’t recognize.
• The d1-3B model, if you download it (see below).

Full transcripts are not saved. Text is used for live captions and finding terms; saved glossaries keep only the short context around each term’s first mention. Previous versions could save full transcripts. Existing meeting files are not automatically deleted; deleting a meeting removes its stored contents.

Your device’s own backups, such as iCloud Backup or a backup to your computer, may include Acronymer’s library and meetings, as they do for most apps. Apple and your computer handle those backups. The d1-3B model file is excluded from backups.

Sharing

When you share a meeting’s glossary or export terms, you choose where it goes using the system’s share sheet, and the app or service you pick handles it under its own terms.

Apple Watch

If you use the companion Watch app and enable wrist alerts, it puts confirmed term names and their meanings in local notifications on your Watch. The iPhone does not request or post notifications. Notification contents do not include audio or transcript excerpts, and Acronymer sends no meeting data to a server. Your notification, preview and Focus settings control where and when the meanings are visible.

The companion Apple Watch app receives recent confirmed term meanings, their fields, listening status and your known-term preferences through Apple’s paired-device connection. It caches that information on your watch. Audio and transcript excerpts stay on your iPhone. “I know this” saves a preference to suppress future alerts for that term; choices made on either device sync with the other, and choices made offline on the watch wait until it reconnects. You can remove it with “Show again” in Settings > Apple Watch > Terms I know, or by tapping a term in the Watch app’s “I know these” list. The meeting screen and saved glossaries still include those terms. The Watch app’s test-alert button schedules a sample definition on the Watch.

Apple Intelligence

If Apple Intelligence is on, Acronymer can use Apple’s on-device model to help choose between known meanings of a term and to suggest a meaning for an acronym it doesn’t know. Company facts come from your library; the app does not look up people or projects online. Acronymer uses only the model that runs on your device. It never uses Apple’s Private Cloud Compute.

The one internet connection

When Apple Intelligence isn’t available, Acronymer offers to download Liquid AI’s d1-3B decision model, a 1.67 GB file that helps it choose between meanings. The download happens only if you tap Download, either when the app offers it or later in Settings > Decision model.

The file comes from Hugging Face (huggingface.co). Like any website, Hugging Face receives standard connection information, such as your IP address, in order to deliver the file, and handles it under Hugging Face’s privacy policy. Acronymer sends nothing else with the request: no account, no identifiers and nothing from your meetings.

Before using the file, Acronymer checks it against the checksum Liquid AI published. After that, the model runs entirely on your device. You can remove it any time in Settings > Decision model.

Children

Acronymer doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Deleting your data

• Delete a meeting by swiping it in Meetings, or with Delete in the meeting’s menu.
• Delete your own terms and fields in Library.
• Remove the d1-3B model in Settings > Decision model.
• Delete the app to remove everything it stored on the device.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we’ll update this page and the effective date at the top. If a change affects how the app handles information, we’ll describe it in the app’s release notes before it takes effect.

Contact

Ramify Studios, support@ramifystudios.com.