Your memories never leave your phone.

01The short version

• No account. Fold never asks for an email, password or profile to use the app.
• Everything you write, record or capture is stored on your phone. We have no copy and no way to read it.
• We collect anonymous usage data to keep Fold working and learn what helps. It is always on, and it never includes what you write or capture.
• No ads, and we never sell or rent data of any kind.

02What stays on your device

Your memories, including text, photos, videos, GIFs, voice notes, songs and places, live in a local database inside the app’s storage on your phone. They are not uploaded, synced or backed up to any server we run.

You can lock the journal behind Face ID or your fingerprint, and turn on a privacy screen that hides Fold in the app switcher and blocks screenshots. Deleted memories wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days, then are removed for good.

Because nothing is stored with us, keeping your device and its backups safe is in your hands. If you uninstall Fold or lose your phone without a backup, we cannot recover your memories.

03Permissions

On first launch Fold asks, once, for notifications (the daily reminders), the camera and microphone (photos and voice notes), your photo library (saving memories out) and location (tagging a memory with a place). Each one only powers that feature, and you can change any of them in your phone’s settings.

04What goes online, and why

• Anonymous usage data, through PostHog. This covers crashes, which screens are opened and how features are used: for example that a memory was saved, whether it held text, a photo or a voice note, roughly how long the text was and the time of day. It also covers your streak and ink totals, which reminder was tapped, your settings choices, a broad age bracket (for example “18–24”) worked out from your date of birth, the region, language and timezone your phone is set to, and a country and city estimated from your connection. There are no accounts; your device is known only by a random ID. It never includes the text, photos, audio, place names or story titles of your memories, your name or your date of birth. It cannot be turned off.
• Reminders. The three daily reminders are scheduled by your phone itself. No server sends them and nothing about them leaves the device.
• Music search. Looking up a song sends only your search words to Apple’s music catalogue.
• GIF search. Looking up a GIF sends only your search words to a GIF library.
• Place names. If you turn on location tagging, your phone’s own location service turns your position into a place name.
• Feedback. Anything you type into the in-app feedback form is sent to us, because you chose to send it.

05The waitlist on this website

When you join the waitlist we store your email address, the date you joined, your place in line, a short referral code, and which code referred you, if any.

We also store how you found us, if the link told us: its campaign tags (such as utm_source), the name of the site that sent you, and the page you landed on. Never your browsing history or the full address of that site.

We use your email only to send your invite and a small number of launch updates about Fold. Every email has a way to unsubscribe, and you can ask us to delete your waitlist entry at any time by writing to us.

This website does not use advertising trackers. It remembers your referral code in your own browser so you can see your place in line when you come back; you can clear it at any time.

06Children

Fold is not directed at children under 13. The date of birth asked for in the app exists so we can avoid profiling or collecting data from younger users.

07Changes to this policy

If we change how Fold handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top, and let you know in the app before the change takes effect.