AllListen Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 6, 2026 · 中文

What the app accesses

• Microphone (Apple Watch): the watch records the sound around you. While it records, the watch shows the system microphone indicator, and you can pause or stop at any time.
• Speech recognition (iPhone): recordings are transcribed on the iPhone itself with Apple's built-in speech recognition, without going online. The first time, the system downloads the Chinese recognition model from Apple; your recordings are not uploaded.

Where your data is stored

• Recordings: sent from the watch to its paired iPhone and kept in AllListen's own folder. They are excluded from iCloud Backup and never uploaded to any server. Recordings older than the retention period you choose in Settings (7 days by default, or 30 days, or forever) are deleted automatically; transcripts and digests are kept.
• Transcripts and digests: stored on your iPhone.
• Settings and API keys: settings are stored in the app's own preferences. API keys are stored in this iPhone's Keychain and are not synced to iCloud Keychain.

Data sent to AI services

This happens only if you choose "your own API key" as the way digests are written:

• What is sent: the text transcribed from that day's recordings, together with the instructions for writing the digest. No audio, and not your Apple Account, device identifiers or location.
• Who receives it: the service you chose (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Doubao, ERNIE, Xiaomi MiMo, MiniMax, Zhipu GLM, or another service you enter), sent directly from your iPhone with your own key, never through us.
• Your permission first: before text is sent to a service for the first time, the app tells you where it goes and what is sent, and sends nothing until you agree. If the service's address is changed to a different server, you are asked again.
• How the service handles it: under that service's own privacy policy and terms. Most of the services listed above process data in mainland China.
• Withdrawing: delete that service's key in the app's Settings (under "整理方式", the summary method) and the app stops sending. Text already sent is handled under that service's policy; you can contact the service to have it deleted.

When digests are written with Apple Intelligence, they are generated on your iPhone and the text never leaves it.

Subscriptions and payment

Generating digests requires a subscription. Subscriptions are bought through the App Store and payment is handled by Apple; we never receive your payment information. The app checks your subscription status with the App Store on your device, not through any server of ours. You can manage or cancel your subscription in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions.

What we don't collect

AllListen has no accounts and uses no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting tools, and it does not track you. The app's logs stay on your device and leave it only if you export them yourself.

Recording other people

AllListen records the conversations around you, which may include other people's voices. Please let them know, and pause recording on the watch where recording isn't appropriate. Laws on recording differ from place to place; please follow the laws where you are.

Deleting your data

• Delete a conversation: use the "⋯" menu at the top right of the conversation page. Its recordings, transcript and summary are deleted.
• Delete everything: delete AllListen from your iPhone and Apple Watch, and all of its data goes with it.

We hold none of your data, so there is nothing to ask us to delete.

Children's privacy

AllListen is not directed to children under 13, and we do not collect information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will update the date at the top of this page and explain the change in the app.

Contact us

If you have any questions about privacy, email 123428316@qq.com.