Out of Mind Privacy Policy
Last updated: 11 September 2026
Out of Mind does not collect, store, transmit, or share any personal data. There is no account, no sync, and no server of mine. The app has no networking code in it at all.
What you say
The microphone is open from the moment the app appears, because losing your opening sentence is the one failure that loses the app to Siri. Your voice becomes words on this iPhone, using two of Apple’s speech engines at once: a slower one whose words are the dump, and a faster one that only exists to keep the screen level with your mouth. Everything the fast one produces is thrown away as soon as the slower one settles the same words.
On-device is a requirement here rather than a preference. The slower engine reads your voice on this iPhone, from a language model iOS downloads once and keeps on the phone. The fast one is forbidden the network outright, and it is asked beforehand whether it can work without one: if it cannot, it never starts, and the slower engine keeps the screen level with your mouth on its own. Neither engine falls back to a server, so there is no case where your words quietly go to Apple instead of staying here.
The audio is never written down. Nothing is recorded to a file, nothing is kept after the dump, and nothing is sent anywhere. Out of Mind asks for the microphone and for speech recognition the first time it needs them, behind a page saying why, and you can withdraw either in Settings.
It also never listens while you are not looking at it. There is no audio background mode in the app, so the screen dimming closes the microphone and the phone going away ends the dump.
The model
Apple’s on-device model reads the dump and decides where one job ends and the next begins. It is part of Apple Intelligence and it runs on this iPhone. Nothing you said is sent to Apple, and nothing comes to me. On a phone without Apple Intelligence the app splits the dump with its own rules instead, which also run here, and it carries on without saying anything about it.
Reminders
Out of Mind writes each slip into your Reminders and forgets it. It never reads your reminders back, never edits one, and never deletes one. It asks for full access because iOS has no write-only permission for Reminders, not because it wants to look.
What is kept in the app
One file in the app’s own storage on the phone: the pile of slips you have said and not yet dealt with. Each slip holds its title, the clause of the dump it came from kept word for word, and whatever date, place or people the app lifted out of it. Alongside them is one sentence summing up the last dump, which is what the morning notification says.
That is the whole of it. A slip leaves the pile into Reminders or into nothing, and there is no archive, no history and no copy of anything already filed. You can share the pile out as plain text, one line a slip, which hands over the list you are looking at and keeps nothing.
Notifications
Two a day, both made on this iPhone: a nudge at five in the afternoon, and a summary the next morning of what you said. They arrive quietly in Notification Centre rather than as an alert, and you can promote or silence them there. Nothing is pushed from a server, because there is no server.
What there is none of
No account, no sign-in, no iCloud, no sync, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no in-app purchases, and no subscription.
Contact
Questions about this policy: email me at alex@alexecollins.com.
Help with the app itself is on the support page.