Privacy policy

Last updated 12 November 2026

SaySticky is made by Adil Husain, an independent developer in India. This policy covers the SaySticky apps for iPhone and Android and the sync service behind them. Write to saysticky@adilhusain.dev with any question.

In short

Without an account, your note stays on your phone and nothing is sent anywhere.
With an account, your notes sync through our server, so your phones and the people you share with see the same list.
Voice notes are turned into text by Sarvam AI and placed on your list by Anthropic's Claude, or by OpenAI's GPT when Claude cannot answer. The app asks before the first one, and we never store recordings.
Times you type on a line, and the reminders they set, are worked out on your phone. Nothing about them is sent beyond the line itself.
No ads, no tracking, no analytics, and we never sell anything about you.

What we collect, and why

Your name and email, from Google or Apple

Why: To know which account is yours, and to show your name to people on a canvas you share. Sign in with Apple lets you hide your email.
Where: Our database
How long: Until you delete your account

An account ID, and your sign-in kept only as a scrambled hash

Why: To keep you signed in
Where: Our database
How long: Until you sign out or delete your account

Your notes: each line, where it sits, any day or time on it, the canvas name, and who added each line

Why: To keep your phones, and the people you share with, on the same list
Where: Our database
How long: Until you delete them or your account. A line you remove is kept as removed for 30 days, so every phone hears about it, then deleted.

A random ID for each of your phones, and the address used to wake it (a push token)

Why: To send changes to your other phones, and to tell you when someone changes a shared canvas
Where: Our database
How long: Until you sign out or delete your account

How many free voice notes you used each day

Why: To keep the daily allowance fair
Where: Our database
How long: Until you delete your account

Your voice recordings

Why: To turn what you said into text
Where: Not kept by us. Sent through our server to Sarvam AI, which deletes them after processing.
How long: Gone once heard

What was heard, with the lines of the note you spoke into

Why: To decide what to add, change or remove
Where: Not kept by us. Sent through our server to Anthropic, which deletes it within 30 days and does not train on it. If Claude cannot answer, it goes to OpenAI instead, which keeps it up to 30 days to check for abuse and does not train on it.
How long: Up to 30 days, at Anthropic or OpenAI

Technical logs: for example, that an account signed in or synced, with a shortened account ID

Why: To keep the service running and fix faults
Where: Our server
How long: 30 days. They never contain what you wrote or said.

What	Why	Where	How long
Your name and email, from Google or Apple	To know which account is yours, and to show your name to people on a canvas you share. Sign in with Apple lets you hide your email.	Our database	Until you delete your account
An account ID, and your sign-in kept only as a scrambled hash	To keep you signed in	Our database	Until you sign out or delete your account
Your notes: each line, where it sits, any day or time on it, the canvas name, and who added each line	To keep your phones, and the people you share with, on the same list	Our database	Until you delete them or your account. A line you remove is kept as removed for 30 days, so every phone hears about it, then deleted.
A random ID for each of your phones, and the address used to wake it (a push token)	To send changes to your other phones, and to tell you when someone changes a shared canvas	Our database	Until you sign out or delete your account
How many free voice notes you used each day	To keep the daily allowance fair	Our database	Until you delete your account
Your voice recordings	To turn what you said into text	Not kept by us. Sent through our server to Sarvam AI, which deletes them after processing.	Gone once heard
What was heard, with the lines of the note you spoke into	To decide what to add, change or remove	Not kept by us. Sent through our server to Anthropic, which deletes it within 30 days and does not train on it. If Claude cannot answer, it goes to OpenAI instead, which keeps it up to 30 days to check for abuse and does not train on it.	Up to 30 days, at Anthropic or OpenAI
Technical logs: for example, that an account signed in or synced, with a shortened account ID	To keep the service running and fix faults	Our server	30 days. They never contain what you wrote or said.

Voice notes and the AI services

Before your first voice note, the app tells you what goes to Sarvam AI, Anthropic and OpenAI and asks for your agreement. Voice notes stay off until you agree, and you can turn them off again in Settings at any time. Then nothing more is sent, and typing works as before.

Voice notes go through our server only so the services' keys stay secret and the daily allowance can be counted. The server passes the recording and the text on and keeps neither.

Who else handles your data

These services process data for us, each only for the job below, and each protects it at least as well as this policy describes:

Neon keeps our database, in Singapore.
Contabo rents us the server the sync service runs on, in Mumbai.
Sarvam AI, in India, turns recordings into text.
Anthropic, in the United States, decides how a voice note changes your list.
OpenAI, in the United States, does the same when Anthropic cannot answer.
Google signs you in with Google, and its Firebase Cloud Messaging wakes Android phones. It sees a push token and a canvas ID, never your notes.
Apple signs you in with Apple, and its push service wakes iPhones. It sees the same, never your notes.

Sharing a canvas

Everyone you invite to a canvas can read and change it, and sees the names of the people on it. The owner can remove anyone, and anyone can leave. A removed person loses access at once.

Your choices

Change the name others see in Settings, under your name.
Turn voice notes off in Settings, under Voice notes.
Delete your account in the app, under Settings, your name, Delete account, or as described on the account deletion page. Your account, your canvases and your voice counts leave our database at once. A canvas others still use passes to them, and the lines you added stay on it without your name. Deleted data can stay in our database provider's short-term backups until they are overwritten. If you signed in with Apple, SaySticky's access to your Apple Account is revoked too.
Ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or anything else about it by writing to saysticky@adilhusain.dev. We reply within 30 days.

Security

Everything travels encrypted over HTTPS. Sign-ins are stored only as hashes, and Apple's sign-in tokens are kept encrypted. On your phone, keys and sign-ins sit in the iPhone keychain or Android's encrypted storage.

Children

SaySticky is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you think a child has an account, write to us and we will delete it.

Changes

When this policy changes, the new version appears here with a new date. A change to what we collect or who receives it is also shown in the app.