Privacy Policy

Last updated September 26, 2026

In short:

StowJar has no account and no tracking. We don't collect, see, sell or share your data.
What you save stays on your devices and in your own iCloud account.
AI features run on your device with Apple Intelligence.

What StowJar stores, and where

The links you save, the article text and pictures StowJar downloads, your tags, highlights, notes, reading positions and settings are stored on your device. If iCloud is turned on for StowJar, they also sync through your own private iCloud account so they appear on your other devices. That data is held by Apple under Apple's privacy policy; we have no access to it.

Some things stay on the device where they were made and are not synced: page snapshots, Recently Deleted items (kept for 30 days), reminders, the Spotlight index, the Listen queue and widget data.

Connections StowJar makes

The websites you save. To download an article, its pictures and the site's icon, StowJar requests them directly from that website, the same way a browser would. Those sites see an ordinary request from your device.
Video and social platforms. For YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Reddit links, StowJar asks the platform for the post's public details (title, author, caption, picture). Playing a video loads the platform's own player.
The natural voice, if you download it. Listen's optional natural voice is a one-time download of the voice files from Hugging Face (huggingface.co), which sees an ordinary download request from your device. After that it runs entirely on your device; the text it reads is never sent anywhere.
Services you turn on. If you connect Readwise or Notion, StowJar sends the highlights and articles you choose to that service using the key you provide. Keys are kept in your device's Keychain.

StowJar does not use analytics, advertising or tracking tools, and it does not send any information about you or your reading to us.

Apple Intelligence

Summaries, AI actions, questions you ask about an article or your library, and tag suggestions use Apple's on-device language model. The article text is processed on your device and is not sent to us. Listen uses the voices on your device, including the optional natural voice.

Diagnostics you choose to send

StowJar keeps a short activity record on your device (about the last seven days), such as when Listen switched voices or an article failed to download, so problems can be explained. It holds no article titles, web addresses or highlights, and it never leaves your device on its own. If you use Send Diagnostics in Settings › Help, you see the full report first and send it yourself by email; it includes your app and system versions, library counts, a few settings and that activity record, plus crash reports Apple's system saved on your device. We use it only to answer your message.

Permissions

Notifications: only for reminders you set, scheduled on your device.
Photos: only when you pick a picture for a link.
Speech recognition: only when you transcribe a podcast episode; it runs on your device.

This website and the contact form

stowjar.com doesn't use cookies, analytics or trackers. If you use the contact form, we receive your name, email address and message by email and use them only to reply to you (or, if you asked, to tell you when StowJar launches). We don't add you to any other list and we delete messages when they're no longer needed. Ask us any time to delete what you sent.

The newsletter

If you sign up for the StowJar newsletter, we email you a confirmation link, and you're only added after you click it. Once you confirm, our website passes your email address to Hostinger Reach, the email service we send the newsletter with, which stores it for us. We use your address only to send StowJar news, a few times a year, and never sell or share it. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing takes you off the list straight away. You can also ask us at support@stowjar.com to delete your address.

Children

StowJar doesn't collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Your choices

You can delete any link, or everything, in the app at any time. Turning off iCloud for StowJar stops syncing. Deleting the app removes its data from that device; data in iCloud can be removed in your device's iCloud settings.

Changes

If this policy changes, we'll update the date above and describe the change on this page.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@stowjar.com, or use the contact form.