Privacy policy
DRAFT · LAST UPDATED 11 OCTOBER 2026
Genry is built so that the people you care about stay your business. This page explains, in plain words, what happens to your information — in the app and on this website.
Draft notice. Genry has not been released. This document describes how the app is built today and has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. It will be finalized before the app is published.
Who is responsible
Genry is made by Genry Studio B.V. For anything about privacy, write to hello@genry.app.
This website
This site collects nothing. There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking pixel, and no contact form. It sets no cookies and writes nothing to your browser's storage, which is why you are not being asked to accept anything.
Fonts and images are served from this site itself, so loading a page makes no request to Google or to any other third party. The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which keeps ordinary server logs, usually including IP addresses, for security and troubleshooting.
There is one exception, and you only meet it if you connect Genry to an assistant: the sign-in page at genry.app/oauth/consent talks to our hosting provider, Supabase, to sign you in and record your decision. It sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser: the sign-in lasts only until you close the page.
The app: what stays on your iPhone
By default, everything does. When you create a local profile, the people you add, the notes and voice recordings you save, the photos and documents you import, and the details Genry learns from them are stored on the device in an encrypted app container, protected by iOS file protection.
- No account is required to use the app.
- There is no analytics or telemetry of any kind in the app.
- The app does not send your content to a cloud AI service unless you choose the cloud model yourself (see below), and nothing you save is used to train any model.
- Local data is deliberately excluded from iPhone backups. That protects it, and it also means unsynced memories are lost if you lose the phone or delete the app — so export a backup file (see below).
How the intelligence works
Genry is built for the Apple Intelligence personal intelligence system. Extracting meaningful details from what you save uses the language model on your iPhone, along with Apple's on-device text recognition and speech transcription. With that default, your content is processed on the device and is not sent to us or to a third-party model provider.
You can choose a different model in Settings. Gemma is an open model that also runs on your iPhone: the app downloads it once from Hugging Face, which sees your IP address as any download does, and after that nothing you save leaves the device. Cloud is a larger model that runs on a server, and it is the one choice that sends notes off your iPhone. It needs a cloud account and is described below.
Every learned detail keeps a link to the note it came from, so you can check it, correct it, or delete it. AI output can be wrong; nothing in the app asks you to take it on trust.
AI features need a compatible iPhone running iOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence enabled. Without it, saving, viewing, searching, text recognition and document reading still work.
If you turn on cloud sync
Cloud sync is optional and off until you choose it. If you create a cloud account and enable sync, your people, notes, learned details and original files are copied to our hosting provider, Supabase, so they can reach your other devices.
Be clear about what this is. Synced data is encrypted in transit and at rest by the hosting provider, but it is not end-to-end encrypted. We hold the keys that our provider holds. If that matters to you, keep using a local profile.
If you use a cloud account we also process your email address and authentication data to sign you in and to send password-reset email.
A cloud account by itself only syncs. Your notes are still understood on your iPhone, and no model on a server reads them. The next two sections describe the two things that change that, and both are separate choices you make after creating an account.
If you choose the cloud model
In Settings you can switch the model from Apple Intelligence to Cloud. The app tells you when it is on. While it is:
- Understanding a note. The text of the note you just saved is sent to our server and on to the model, which returns the details it found.
- Asking a question. Your question, the recent turns of that conversation, the person's name, relationship and birthday, and the notes about them most likely to answer it are sent. Genry normally picks the twenty most relevant notes rather than sending them all; if that search is unavailable, it sends as many of that person's notes as fit.
- Finding those notes. To pick them, each of your notes is turned into a list of numbers that captures its meaning (an embedding). The embeddings are created by the model provider and stored in our database next to a copy of the note, under your account.
The model is provided by Microsoft, through its Azure OpenAI service. Under Microsoft's terms, what we send is not used to train models; Microsoft may keep requests for a limited period to detect abuse. We do not log your questions or the model's answers. We keep a count of how many requests your account made each day, to enforce a daily limit, and nothing about what they contained.
Recognizing text in photos and documents, and transcribing voice notes, still happen on your iPhone whichever model you choose. Switch back to Apple Intelligence at any time and notes stop being sent.
If you connect ChatGPT or Claude
You can connect Genry to an AI assistant so you can ask it about the people in your notes. You do this from the assistant, sign in with your Genry cloud account on our sign-in page, and approve the connection. Nothing is connected until you do.
A connected assistant can:
- see the list of people in your Genry, with their relationship, birthday and how many notes each has;
- read your notes about a person, and search your notes, exactly as you wrote them;
- add a note about someone already in Genry, when you ask it to.
It cannot change or delete anything, cannot add people, and cannot see your photos, recordings or documents. Those limits are enforced in our database, not left to the assistant's good behaviour.
Be clear about what this is. Notes an assistant reads are sent to the company that runs it — OpenAI for ChatGPT, Anthropic for Claude — and are then handled under that company's privacy policy as well as this one. We do not control what it does with them, including how long it keeps the conversation. Only connect an assistant you are comfortable sharing these notes with.
Only notes you have synced to your cloud account are visible to an assistant. Searching on its behalf uses the same embeddings described above. To disconnect, remove Genry in the assistant's settings; you can also write to us and we will revoke the connection.
Notes about other people
Genry is a notebook about people in your life, so what you write is mostly about them rather than about you, and some of it is sensitive: an allergy, a medication, a diagnosis. On your iPhone that is your own private notebook. If you turn on cloud sync, the cloud model or a connected assistant, we process those notes on your behalf, only to provide the features you chose, and never for advertising, profiling or training.
Please write about other people the way you would want to be written about, and think before you sync or share something they told you in confidence. If someone asks us about information held about them, we will work with you to answer.
Who else is involved
- Supabase — database, file storage and sign-in for cloud accounts. Hosted in the European Union (Ireland). Only if you create a cloud account.
- Microsoft (Azure OpenAI) — the cloud model and embeddings. Only if you choose the cloud model or connect an assistant.
- OpenAI or Anthropic — only if you connect ChatGPT or Claude, and only for what that assistant reads.
- Hugging Face — the one-time download of Gemma, only if you choose it. No note is sent.
- Cloudflare — hosts this website.
- Apple — Apple Intelligence runs on your device. We do not send Apple your notes.
Some of these companies are based in the United States. Where information leaves the European Economic Area, it does so under the safeguards the GDPR requires.
How long we keep it
Synced information stays until you delete it. Deleting a note removes it, the details learned from it, and its embedding with the copy beside it, as soon as the deletion syncs. Deleting your account removes your records, stored originals and embeddings and then the login itself. The daily request counts are deleted after a week. Information that never left your iPhone is not ours to keep or delete: it goes when you delete it or the app.
Your choices
- Lock the app. Require Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode before Genry opens.
- Export everything. One file with every person, note, detail and original, protected by a password you choose. We cannot recover that password. The same file restores onto another iPhone.
- Correct or delete any detail. Deleting a note also removes the learned statements that depended on it.
- Erase all private content while keeping your login.
- Delete your account from inside the app. This removes your records and stored originals from the cloud and deletes the login itself.
- Choose where the thinking happens. Apple Intelligence or Gemma on your iPhone, or the cloud model. You can change it whenever you like.
- Disconnect an assistant from that assistant's settings.
Genry Studio B.V. is established in the Netherlands, so the GDPR applies to everything described here. You have rights of access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction and objection. Write to us and we will help. You can also complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or to the supervisory authority where you live.
Children
Genry is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, the change will be described here with a new date rather than quietly edited in.