Privacy Policy

The short version

• Your notes, to-dos, habits, drawings and saved links live on your device and in your own iCloud.
• Remlo has no sign-up, no login and no server of its own.
• Nothing you write is sent anywhere unless you ask for it: saving a link, handing a task to an AI app, or exporting your notes.
• No ads, no tracking, no profiling, no selling or sharing of your data with data brokers.
• Questions: me@vasf.io.

Who this policy is from

Remlo is made by Vas Frolik and published by Vas Frolik, in Taiwan. The app is on the App Store as Remlo, bundle identifier app.remlo.Remlo. You can reach a person at me@vasf.io.

What Remlo stores, and where

Everything you create in the app is stored in a database on your device: notes and daily pages, to-dos, habits and their history, links between notes, Apple Pencil drawings, voice notes and their transcripts, saved links and your settings.

If you are signed in to iCloud, the same data is synced through your own iCloud account, in the app’s private CloudKit database. That storage belongs to you. It counts against your iCloud quota, it is covered by your agreement with Apple, and Remlo cannot read it from anywhere else.

Remlo works offline. When you have no connection you keep writing, and iCloud catches up later.

What leaves your device, and when

iCloud sync

Your data travels between your devices through Apple’s CloudKit. To know when to sync, the app registers for silent push notifications from iCloud. Those notifications say that something changed, and the app then fetches the change from your own iCloud account. They do not carry your notes to anyone.

Saved links

When you save a link, Remlo requests that web page and reads its title, description and preview image out of the page’s own meta tags, so the link looks like something in your list. The request goes from your device to that site and carries the address you saved and Remlo’s name, with nothing from your notes in it. Apart from iCloud, this is the only thing the app fetches from the web on its own.

Voice capture

Voice notes are recorded on your device and transcribed with Apple’s Speech framework. Remlo asks for on-device recognition whenever the device and the language you are speaking support it, which keeps the audio on the device.

If on-device recognition is not available for that language, the framework falls back to Apple’s own speech recognition, which may send the audio to Apple to be transcribed. That request is between your device and Apple, under Apple’s privacy policy. Remlo does not receive the audio or the transcript.

A voice note recorded inside a note keeps the audio as well: the recording is saved as an attachment on that note, on your device, and synced through your own iCloud with everything else. Quick capture keeps only the text, and writes no audio file at all.

Handing a task to an AI app

Remlo hands a task to an AI tool only when you press the button that does it. When you choose “Paste to chat”, the app copies the task, the bullets nested under it and the instructions you wrote for that agent to your clipboard, then opens Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, as an app or as a website, and pastes it. On the Mac, “Run in terminal” opens Terminal and starts a command-line agent you installed yourself.

Once that text reaches another company’s app, it is governed by that company’s terms and privacy policy. Remlo has no part in it, and no way to get it back. Send only what you are willing to share.

“Export notes for AI” writes every note into a single Markdown file at a location you choose. The file stays where you put it until you move it somewhere else.

AI access on the Mac

On the Mac, Remlo can run a small server on your own machine so AI tools you configure, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI, can read and, if you allow it, write your notes and to-dos. It is off until you turn it on in Settings.

The server is bound to 127.0.0.1, so it answers only programs on that Mac, and every request has to carry a token the app generates for you. You can require your approval for every write, and there is an activity log that shows what asked for what. Nothing leaves the machine through this feature, except through the AI tool you connected, which runs under that tool’s own terms.

Purchases

Remlo is paid. Apple takes the payment and Remlo never sees your card. To check that a purchase is valid and to keep it unlocked on your other devices, Remlo uses RevenueCat, a third-party service.

RevenueCat receives what it needs to answer that one question: your device type and operating system, the last time the app was used, the Apple receipt file for the purchase, and an anonymous app user identifier. It does not receive your notes, and Remlo does not ask it to store your name or email. Their policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.

Crashes and diagnostics

Remlo has no analytics of its own. Crash reports and usage diagnostics reach the developer only through Apple’s own channels, from App Store and TestFlight, and only if you opted in to sharing them with Apple. Apple aggregates them, and they carry no note content.

What Remlo never collects

• No account, so no email address, password or profile.
• No advertising, no ad identifiers, no third-party trackers or SDKs beyond the purchase check described above.
• No location tracking.
• No contacts, no calendar, no photo library scraping.
• No reading or analysis of your notes by the developer. There is no server to read them from.
• Your data is never sold, rented or handed to data brokers.

Permissions the app asks for

Each one is asked for when the feature needs it, and the app works without it.

• Microphone. To record a voice note.
• Speech recognition. To turn that recording into text.
• Notifications. For one local reminder in the evening about what is still open today, and for the badge on the app icon. Asked the first time there is something to remind you about.
• Accessibility, on the Mac. So the app can press ⌘V for you after it opens a chat app with your task on the clipboard. Without it the task is still on the clipboard and you paste it yourself.
• Automation, on the Mac. So the app can open a Terminal window and start the command-line agent you chose for a task.

These permissions are granted by macOS and iOS, they can be withdrawn at any time in System Settings or Settings, and none of them sends anything to Remlo.

This website

tryremlo.com uses Vercel Analytics for page views. It is cookieless and aggregated, so it counts visits to pages and does not build a profile of you or follow you across sites.

If you put your email address into the signup form, it is stored by Kit (kit.com), which sends the beta and changelog emails. Your address is used for those emails and nothing else, and every email carries an unsubscribe link that removes you.

How long things are kept, and how to delete them

Your notes stay until you delete them. Deleting the app removes the copy on that device. The copy in iCloud is yours to remove: on iPhone or iPad in Settings under your name, iCloud, then the list of apps using iCloud, and on the Mac in System Settings under your name, iCloud. Removing it there deletes the data for every device.

Purchase records are held by Apple and RevenueCat under their own retention rules. Cancelling a subscription does not delete your notes.

To remove your address from the mailing list, use the unsubscribe link in any email, or write to me@vasf.io.

Children

Remlo is a general productivity app. It is not directed at children under 13, and it is not designed or marketed for them.

Your rights

Because there is no Remlo account and no Remlo server, there is no store of your personal data for the developer to hand over, correct or erase. Your data is in your hands: you can read it in the app, export every note to a Markdown file from Settings, and delete all of it from your device and your iCloud. For anything about the website signup list or a purchase, write to me@vasf.io.

Changes to this policy

If the app starts doing something new with your data, this page is updated before that version ships, and the effective date at the top changes. Material changes are also mentioned in the changelog email.

Contact

Write to me@vasf.io. A real person answers. The support page says what to include so the answer is quicker.