Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 4, 2026
This policy explains how ALL: Active Learner Labs ("ALL", "the app", "we", "us") handles your information in our iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps.
The short version. ALL is local-first. You don't create an ALL account; your decks, notes, and progress live on your devices and in your own private iCloud. We don't run advertising or cross-app tracking. Optional cloud AI remains permission-gated. If you subscribe to ALL Pro Narration and explicitly enable it, the text you choose to hear passes through an Active Learner Labs service to OpenAI solely to generate the requested audio. Your microphone audio and recordings are never sent.
What we collect
There is no ALL account to create, and we cannot read your private iCloud study database. We don't sell your information or use it for advertising. If you deliberately enable optional cloud AI, the selected provider receives the material described below solely to return the result you requested. For ALL Pro Narration, our service temporarily processes the narration text, an Apple-signed subscription transaction, and an opaque metering identifier derived from that transaction.
What's stored, and where
The study material you add or create, and your learning progress, are stored on your device and may sync through your own private iCloud database so your Apple devices stay in step. Apple controls that iCloud service; Active Learner Labs cannot view your private database. If you choose to add your own AI provider key (optional — see below), the key is stored in the device Keychain and is not synced in your ALL profile. We don't receive this content or your key.
AI features
By default, ALL generates decks and tutor explanations on your device. Content is sent to an outside AI service only on the optional "your own key" path described below.
- On-device with Apple Intelligence — the default. On supported devices, generation runs entirely on your device using Apple Intelligence: no account, no key, and your content stays on your device.
- A built-in generator. Also runs on your device with no AI service at all, so you can make decks offline.
- Your own AI key — optional and permission-gated. Before a key becomes active, ALL identifies the selected recipient and asks whether you allow that provider to process the material you deliberately use with an AI feature. Nothing is sent merely because a key exists. If you allow it, ALL may send study text you type or paste; text extracted on-device from a PDF, slide deck, note, or lecture transcript; tutor or follow-up messages; and an image you choose in Solve to Claude (Anthropic) or OpenAI, whichever provider you selected. The purpose is limited to producing the deck, explanation, tutoring response, or worked solution you requested. You can refuse permission and continue using on-device features, or revoke permission and clear the key at any time in Settings.
- ALL Pro Narration — optional, subscription- and permission-gated. When you select premium narration, ALL sends only the text you chose to hear, plus Apple's signed proof of an active narration subscription, through our secure service to OpenAI. OpenAI returns speech using the Marin voice. We do not send your microphone audio, recordings, complete library, or iCloud database. Newly generated audio is cached on your device so replay does not require another service request. Apple narration remains available if you decline, are offline, cancel, or reach the monthly allowance.
How optional AI providers protect and retain content
Your-own-key AI requests go directly from your device to the provider under your own API account; Active Learner Labs does not proxy those requests. ALL Pro Narration requests pass through our service so we can verify the subscription and enforce the monthly allowance. The service does not intentionally retain narration text or generated audio. It stores only a one-way hash derived from Apple's transaction identifier and the number of characters used for the current allowance period. OpenAI states that API inputs and outputs are not used to train its models by default; provider safety-retention terms may still apply.
- Anthropic API retention and training policy
- OpenAI API data controls and retention and privacy commitments
Microphone, recordings, and speech
Two features use the microphone: Record a lecture, which captures a lecture and turns it into a study set, and answering a question out loud. Both are started by you and only run while you have them open.
Your audio stays on your device. Recording is written to a temporary file on the device, and speech is transcribed using Apple's on-device speech recognition — the app explicitly requires the on-device recogniser rather than allowing a fall back to server-based recognition. Your voice and your recordings are not uploaded to us, and we never receive them. Where on-device recognition isn't available for your language, the feature declines to run and tells you, instead of sending your audio elsewhere.
Temporary audio used to build a transcript is deleted once the transcript is produced. If the app is interrupted mid-recording, the transcript in progress is kept on your device so it can be recovered next time you open the app; you can discard it.
The resulting transcript is study content, and is stored and synced exactly like the rest of your material (see What's stored, and where). If — and only if — you deliberately turn on an optional cloud AI provider and ask it to generate from that transcript, the text of the transcript is sent to that provider under the terms described above. The audio itself is never sent.
Apple services
Purchases, including the one-time ALL Unlimited unlock and optional auto-renewing ALL Pro Narration, are handled by Apple; we don't see your payment details. To authorize premium narration, our service verifies Apple's signed subscription transaction and derives a one-way metering identifier from its transaction ID. Apple also provides aggregate, privacy-preserving App Store analytics. If you opt in under device Settings, Apple may share anonymized crash or diagnostic reports with developers.
Sharing decks
When you export a deck to send to someone, it goes wherever you choose to send it (for example AirDrop, Messages, or Files). There's no server involved, and we don't access your contacts.
Tracking and advertising
ALL contains no third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking software. We do not use advertising identifiers, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
Our website
This policy also covers our marketing website (the page you're reading). The site uses privacy-preserving, cookieless analytics (Vercel Web Analytics) to understand aggregate visits and, where supported, aggregate taps on its App Store buttons — for example page views, the referring site, approximate country, device type, and the coarse source and button placement associated with a tap. It does not use cookies, does not build a profile of you, and does not track you across other apps or websites; it collects no names, emails, free-form link values, or advertising identifiers. Our site is hosted by Vercel, which processes this aggregate data on our behalf. The app itself contains none of this.
Children's privacy
ALL is rated 4+ and suitable for a general audience. It does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. There is no account, and the app does not send personal information to us. If you believe someone has provided us personal information through a support request and you'd like it removed, contact us at the email below.
Data retention and deletion
Because your library lives on your devices and in your own private iCloud, you control it: delete individual decks and notes within the app, manage your iCloud data through Apple, or remove the app and its iCloud data to erase it. Turning off cloud AI, clearing a provider key, or disabling premium narration stops future transfers. Premium narration audio in the app's cache may be removed by the operating system or when the app is deleted. Monthly metering records expire after their allowance period. Provider retention policies govern a request already sent. If you've contacted support and want that correspondence deleted, email us.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete personal information a company holds about you. Because ALL keeps your study data on your device and we don't collect it, most requests are satisfied by deleting content in the app. If you have a question about your rights, contact us at the email below.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated date.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Email hfoster17@gmail.com.