1. Who we are
Note Now is an iOS application that lets you capture voice notes on your iPhone, iPad and Apple CarPlay screen. This privacy policy explains how the app and the website at notenow.app / notenow.co.uk handle (and largely don't handle) your information.
For the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, the data controller is the publisher of the Note Now app. Contact details are at the bottom of this page.
2. What we collect
Within the Note Now app, the answer is short: nothing.
We don't have user accounts. We don't ask for your email, name, or any sign-up details. We don't run analytics, crash reporting tools or advertising SDKs inside the app. We don't measure how many notes you've made, how long they are, which groups you use, or how often you open the app.
The voice notes you record, the transcriptions iOS generates from them, the groups you create and the emoji you pick are all stored locally on your device. None of that information is transmitted to us, ever.
If a journalist showed up at our door with a court order asking what notes you've recorded, we would have to say "we don't know — we don't have them." That's by design.
3. Where your data lives
Your notes are stored in Note Now's app sandbox on your device. iOS controls access to this sandbox — no other app can read your notes without your explicit permission.
iCloud sync (Pro)
If you unlock Pro and enable iCloud sync, your notes are synchronised across your devices using your own Apple iCloud account. This data travels through Apple's infrastructure, end-to-end encrypted under the terms of Apple's privacy policy. We have no access to it. Apple has no access to the contents of your iCloud private database.
On-device transcription
Note Now uses Apple's built-in speech recognition framework to turn your voice notes into text. On modern iPhones and iPads, this runs entirely on-device — your audio is not sent to Apple's servers, and certainly never to ours. On older devices, transcription may be handled on Apple's servers under their privacy terms; you can verify and control this in iOS Settings → General → Keyboard → Dictation.
Deletion
To delete a note, delete it inside the app. To delete everything, uninstall Note Now from your device. Because there is no cloud copy under our control, deletion really means deletion.
4. Apple & the App Store
Note Now is distributed exclusively through the Apple App Store. When you download the app or purchase Note Now Pro, the transaction is handled entirely by Apple. We never see, store or have access to your payment card details, billing address, or full Apple ID.
Apple may share aggregated, anonymised sales and download data with us through App Store Connect — for example, "20 people in the UK bought Pro last week." This information cannot identify you individually.
Apple's handling of your data is governed by Apple's privacy policy.
5. Third-party services
Note Now does not bundle any third-party analytics, advertising, crash reporting, fingerprinting or tracking SDKs. The app talks to:
- Apple's frameworks on your device — Speech, CarPlay, StoreKit and CloudKit (only if you enable sync).
- Nothing else.
If this ever changes — for example if we add an optional feature that genuinely needs a third-party service — we'll update this policy and tell you in the app before turning it on.
6. This website
The website at notenow.app and notenow.co.uk is a simple marketing page. We don't ask you to sign up, log in, or fill in any forms. We don't run a cookie banner because we don't set any tracking cookies that would need one.
Our web host may collect standard server logs (your IP address, the page you requested, your browser type, and the time of the request) for security and abuse-prevention purposes, retained for a short period and then deleted. This is the minimum needed to keep a website online and is treated as our legitimate interest under UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f).
The site loads typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google may see the IP address of visitors at the moment fonts are requested. We don't share any other information with Google and they don't act as a tracker on our behalf.
7. Your rights under UK GDPR
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the right to:
- Access any personal data we hold about you
- Have inaccurate data corrected
- Have your data erased
- Restrict or object to our processing of your data
- Receive your data in a portable format
- Withdraw consent at any time
- Lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
In practice, exercising most of these rights against Note Now is straightforward: we don't hold any personal data about you. There's nothing to access, correct, or port. If you'd still like written confirmation of that, email us and we'll send it.
8. Children
Note Now isn't aimed at children. It's a productivity tool for adult drivers and commuters. Because we don't collect any data from anyone, we don't knowingly collect data from children either. If you're a parent or guardian and have questions, please get in touch.
9. Changes to this policy
If we change anything material — particularly anything that would mean we start collecting data we didn't before — we'll update this page and change the "Last updated" date at the top. For any change that meaningfully reduces your privacy, we'll also surface a notice inside the app the next time you open it.
10. Contact us
Questions about anything on this page? Email [email protected] and we'll get back to you.
If you'd prefer to raise a concern with the UK supervisory authority, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office directly.