IKARI Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 August 2026

1. The short version

IKARI does not collect anything about you.

There is no account. Everything you write is stored on your own phone, and it never leaves it unless you personally choose to export it and send it somewhere.

This page used to say "there is no server," and as of today that is no longer strictly true: pressing "Read to me" downloads a recording. So here is the honest version. There is a place we keep audio files, and there is nowhere that anything you write can go. The first is a folder of recordings that is identical for every person using IKARI. The second does not exist, and section 3 explains exactly what the download does and does not carry.

We cannot read your journal. Not because we promise not to. Because we do not have it.

2. Who we are

IKARI is provided by IKARI LLC, Portland, Oregon. Contact: support@ikariapp.org

3. What we collect

Nothing.

To be specific, because "nothing" is a strong claim:

The app makes one kind of network request, and only one: when you press "Read to me", it downloads the recording of that reading. Nothing else in the app ever contacts us.

That request says which reading was asked for, and nothing else. It carries no account, no name, no device identifier, no code, and nothing you have written, because the app has none of those to send. What our file host can see is that somebody, somewhere, asked for reading 41. It cannot see who, and there is no second request anywhere in the app that would let anyone join it up.

If you never press "Read to me", the app makes no network requests at all.

Read-aloud plays a recording we made in advance. Every person using IKARI hears the same recordings, because they are of our own written content and nothing else. Your own writing is never read aloud by us and never sent anywhere to be read aloud.

If a recording cannot be reached — you are offline, or it is a part of the app we have not recorded yet — read-aloud falls back to your browser's built-in speech feature, which speaks text that is already on your device. Your browser may produce that audio itself or hand it to your device's operating system, under their privacy terms rather than ours. Nothing is sent to us either way, and we receive nothing back.

Once a recording has played, your browser normally keeps a copy in its ordinary cache, so hearing the same reading again usually downloads nothing at all.

4. What happens to what you write

IKARI runs in your browser, so what you write lives in your browser's own local storage on your device. No other site can read it, and it never reaches us.

Two things can erase it, and neither of them is us:

You can. Deleting the app, clearing your browsing data, or using Settings → Wipe everything removes it permanently. There is no copy anywhere else and we cannot recover it, because we never had it.

Your browser can. This is the part worth knowing. Safari deletes the stored data of websites you have not opened in about seven days. Adding IKARI to your Home Screen exempts it, which is why the app asks you to do that on the very first screen and why the emailed instructions say not to skip it. Other browsers clear storage when space runs low.

So: use Back it up. It is not a formality. It is the only thing standing between a browser deciding to reclaim space and a season's worth of writing.

5. Export

When you tap Back it up, the app writes a file containing your data and hands it to your phone's normal share sheet. Where it goes after that is entirely your choice and is governed by whatever service you send it to, not by us. We never see it.

6. Purchases

Payment is handled entirely by a payment processor. Your card number never reaches us and we do not store it. The processor tells us only that a subscription exists and is current.

Paying does create the one piece of information this policy cannot say we do not have: an email address and a record that somebody paid. That is separate from the app on your phone, and it is not connected to anything you write. The journal stays on your device either way. Nobody at IKARI can open your entries by looking up your payment.

What we do with that email address, exactly: we send you your licence code, receipts and notices about your own subscription, and we answer you if you write to us. That is the whole list. We do not use it for marketing, newsletters, or promotional email unless you specifically ask us to, we do not track whether you opened anything, and we never sell it, rent it, or hand it to anybody else. Every email we send you comes from a person's address you can simply reply to.

7. Children and young people

IKARI is intended for people aged 13 and over. It is not directed to children under 13 and we ask you not to use it if you are under 13.

Because the app collects nothing, and the only thing it ever sends is a request for one of our own audio files, we do not knowingly or unknowingly hold personal information about any child. There is no data for a parent to request, correct, or have deleted, because none of it reaches us. A parent who wants their child's data erased can do so by deleting the app, or by using Settings → Wipe everything inside it.

For parents, plainly: if you believe your child under 13 has been using IKARI, deleting the app from their device permanently removes everything associated with their use of it. You do not need to contact us, wait for us, or trust us to process a request, because there is nothing on our side to delete. If you would rather ask us anyway, write to support@ikariapp.org and we will confirm that in writing.

8. Safety signposts

If certain words appear in something you write, the app may show a card offering crisis or support resources.

That check happens entirely on your phone. Nothing is transmitted, no one is notified, no flag is recorded anywhere outside your own device, and no human ever sees it. It is a list of phrases compared against your text, on your phone, and nothing more.

IKARI is not a medical or mental health product. It does not diagnose, treat, or monitor anything, and it is not a substitute for professional care or for an emergency service.

9. Sharing and selling

We do not sell your data. We do not share it. We do not disclose it to advertisers, data brokers, schools, coaches, teams, or parents.

This is not a policy choice we could quietly reverse in an update. The app has no mechanism to send your writing anywhere. If that ever changes, it would require a new version of the app, a new version of this policy, and telling you.

10. Your rights

Rights to access, correct, port, or delete personal data generally apply to data a company holds about you. We hold none.

Within the app you can see everything (it is all yours, in the Log), export all of it, and erase all of it permanently.

State privacy rights, including Oregon and California. Residents of Oregon, California and other states have rights over the collection, sale, and sharing of their personal information, including the right to opt out of sale or sharing and the right to say "do not sell or share my personal information."

There is nothing here to opt out of. IKARI does not collect, retain, sell, or share personal information. We do not track you across other websites or apps, we run no advertising identifiers, and we do not monetise anything about you. The only record we hold on any customer is a billing email address, and section 6 says exactly what we do with it.

If you want to exercise any right anyway, or simply want it confirmed in writing, write to support@ikariapp.org and we will answer.

11. Changes

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top and note the change in the app. If we ever begin collecting anything at all, we will say so clearly rather than burying it here.

12. Contact

support@ikariapp.org