The short version
Where Did I Put That? is built to run on your device. There are no accounts, we run no servers that receive your data, and we never see your home. Scans, floor plans, 3D models, inventory items, photos and search all live and run on your phone. The only time anything leaves it is when you export, share, or deliberately turn on the optional AI features described below.
What stays on your device
- Scans. Camera frames, LiDAR data, floor plans, 3D models and the .homescan packages the Scanner produces are stored in the app's local storage (and in your own device backups). Capture and processing, including texture generation, happen entirely on the phone.
- Inventory. Your items, their locations, notes, tags and item photos are stored locally by Where Did I Put That?. Photo recognition uses Apple's on-device frameworks, and the smart search index is built and queried offline. Voice entry uses Apple's speech recognition, which on some devices and languages sends audio to Apple to transcribe it, under Apple's privacy policy.
- Sharing is yours to start. Exporting a floor plan, model or .homescan through the share sheet, AirDrop or Files sends it where you point it, not to us.
What the apps collect
- Nothing sent to us by default. Using either app requires no sign-up, no email and no personal information, and we operate no analytics backend.
- Platform-provided data. Apple may provide us aggregate, anonymized App Store install and crash statistics as part of its standard developer services, governed by Apple's own privacy policy.
- Remote configuration. The apps periodically fetch a small configuration file (used, among other things, to control whether ads are enabled) over an ordinary anonymous HTTPS request. No identifiers are attached to it.
- Barcodes. If you scan a product barcode, the barcode number is looked up with the public Open Food Facts database to suggest a name.
Optional AI features (Where Did I Put That?)
Where Did I Put That? has optional AI features (natural-language search and smarter photo and voice item entry) that are off by default and only work if you both enable the toggle in Settings and supply your own Anthropic (Claude) API key. When, and only when, you use them:
- The specific content of that request (your search query, the photo you chose to analyze, or the dictated text being parsed) is sent directly from your phone to Anthropic's API. It does not pass through us; we have no servers in the path and no copy.
- Your API key is stored in the iOS Keychain on your device and is used only to call Anthropic's API.
- Anthropic processes those requests under its own privacy policy and bills your key at its standard API rates. Turn the toggle off (or remove the key) at any time and nothing further is sent.
Ads
The apps include the Google Mobile Ads (AdMob) SDK, but ads are remotely switched and ship disabled by default. Whether any ad appears is controlled by the configuration file described above, and if it cannot be reached, ads stay off. If ads are enabled in a future release, Google may collect device information (such as advertising identifiers, IP address and coarse ad-interaction data) to serve and measure them, under Google's privacy policy. On iOS, any cross-app tracking would also need your explicit App Tracking Transparency consent. If we turn ads on, we will update this policy first to describe exactly what runs.
Analytics and tracking
No third-party analytics or tracking SDKs are embedded beyond the ad SDK described above. This website uses no analytics, no cookies and no trackers.
Children
Not directed at children under 13, and no personal information is knowingly collected from anyone, children included. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
Your choices and rights
- Delete an app to delete everything it stores on your device.
- Remove your Anthropic API key (or turn the AI toggle off) to stop all AI requests instantly.
- Contact us to access or delete anything you have sent us directly. Depending on where you live you may have additional rights (access, correction, deletion, portability); we honor reasonable requests regardless of jurisdiction.
Changes
We will post any changes to this policy on this page and update the date above. Material changes will be called out in the release notes.
Contact
Use the support form. It reaches the people who make the apps.