Your cards stay yours.

The short version

• No account, unless you use Franki Cloud. Franki never asks for your name or email. Franki Cloud, an optional paid feature, needs Sign in with Apple, which gives Franki only an anonymous ID.
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Franki contains no advertising, analytics or other third-party code. It's built only with Apple's own frameworks.
• AI stays on your iPhone, unless you choose Franki Cloud. Cards are written by Apple Intelligence on the device. Only when you choose Franki Cloud for a PDF are the pages you pick sent off the device, and only to make those cards.
• Your data lives in your own iCloud. Decks and review history sync through your private iCloud database.
• Your cards aren't collected. Your cards and study history never reach the developer's server. Franki Cloud's server keeps only what it needs to count your credits.

What stays on your device

Your decks, cards, pictures, recorded sounds, review history and settings are stored on your iPhone. If you use the widgets or Apple Watch app, Franki shares what they need (such as your next due card and how many cards are due) between the app, its widgets and your Watch, on your own devices.

iCloud sync

Decks, cards, images and review history sync through your private iCloud database, so they follow you to a new phone or an iPad. This data is stored by Apple in your iCloud account, under Apple's privacy policy. It's private to your Apple Account: the developer can't read it. You can see and manage the iCloud data apps keep in your Apple Account's iCloud settings on your iPhone.

Making cards with AI

When you ask Franki to write cards from your notes, a photo, a scanned page, a PDF or a web page, the text is processed on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence. Nothing you give it is sent to the developer or to any AI service; the one exception is Franki Cloud, below, and only when you choose it. Explain This Card and Improve This Card also run on the device.

Franki Cloud (optional)

Franki Cloud makes cards from PDF pages that the on-device model can't read well, such as scans, tables and tests with an answer key, up to 100 pages per import. It's used only when you choose it, and Franki asks your permission before the first time it sends anything.

• What's sent: only the pages you pick, as a PDF, with the options you chose (how many cards, the card style and anything you typed to focus on).
• Where it goes: to Franki's server, run on Cloudflare, which passes it to Anthropic's Claude to write the cards and sends them back. Franki's server doesn't keep the pages or the cards. Anthropic deletes them within 30 days and doesn't use them to train its models.
• Your account: Sign in with Apple gives Franki an anonymous ID, not your name or email. The server keeps that ID, a record of each import (when and how many credits it used) and the credits you've bought, so it can charge you fairly and show your recent use.
• Purchases: credits are bought through Apple's in-app purchase. Apple handles the payment, so Franki never sees your payment details.

Web pages

Franki only goes online to read a web page when you ask Generate to read one. It downloads that page directly from the site you entered, as a browser would, so that site sees an ordinary request from your iPhone. The page's text is then used on the device to write cards.

Camera, microphone, photos and notifications

• Camera: used only when you scan pages of notes to turn them into cards.
• Microphone: used only when you record sound for a card, such as how a word is pronounced.
• Photos: Franki reads only the pictures you choose to add.
• Notifications: daily study reminders are scheduled on your iPhone. They aren't sent from a server.

You can change any of these permissions at any time in the Settings app.

Backups, export and sharing

Full backups, CSV export and shared decks are files that you create and send where you choose. Franki doesn't keep a copy anywhere else. When someone opens a deck you shared, Franki adds the deck without your progress.

Information Apple may share with developers

Franki itself adds no analytics. If you've turned on sharing with app developers in your iPhone's settings (Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements → Share With App Developers), Apple may share crash reports and app usage statistics with the developer. You can turn this off at any time.

Children

Franki doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Franki is made by Devaprasad T P. Questions about privacy? Email support@franki.wiki.