No account. No analytics. No advertising. No tracking.
ZENUG. has no sign-up, no username and no password. We do not profile you, we do not sell anything about you, and we do not track you across apps or websites. Your loops live on your device. Deleting the app deletes them.
Recordings are transcribed on the device, by iOS, offline. The audio is never uploaded — not to us, not to Apple, not to anyone. It is stored on your phone, excluded from iCloud backup, and deleted when you delete the loop. A capture spoken into the Apple Watch app travels over Apple’s device-to-device channel to your phone — the same rule, one wrist further out.
Voice capture, on-device transcription, the daily board and the journal all work offline, with no purchase and no account. In this mode ZENUG sends nothing to us — ever.
Your loops, transcripts and journal sync through your own private iCloud database (CloudKit), end-to-end: every content field is encrypted so that neither ZENUG nor Apple can read it. A new iPhone signed into the same iCloud gets your journal back. ZENUG has no server in this path and never sees a word. The audio deliberately does not sync — it stays on the phone that recorded it. No iCloud account? The app simply works locally, exactly as before.
If you subscribe, the text of your voice note is sent to ZENUG’s backend (api.zenug.app), which passes it to Anthropic. Be clear about what that means: it is the whole transcript — not a tidy list of tasks. If you think out loud, the thinking goes too. Anthropic reads it, pulls out the things worth tracking, and sends back loops with a time estimate, a first move and a reason. The audio itself still never leaves your phone; only the text does.
The same applies to the other things ZENUG+ can do: asking a question about your own past notes sends the relevant excerpts of those notes, and importing from Apple Reminders sends the titles and dates of the reminders being sorted.
We store none of it. Your text and the AI’s replies are never written to our storage and never written to our logs — they exist only for the seconds it takes to answer the request. Anthropic processes them under Anthropic’s privacy terms and does not use them to train models.
If that is more than you want to share, don’t subscribe — the free app is not a demo. Voice capture, on-device transcription, the daily board and the journal all keep working, and nothing ever reaches ZENUG.
The only thing we keep is a usage counter — keyed to your Apple subscription identifier (a random token Apple assigns; it is not your name, your email or your Apple ID) plus a count of tokens — so we can enforce fair-use limits and watch our own costs. It carries no task content.
There is still no ZENUG account. Subscribing is a normal Apple purchase; Apple never gives us your name, your email or your payment details. We only check with Apple that a subscription is valid.
“Import from Reminders” is a one-time pull you trigger in Settings: ZENUG reads your Reminders through iOS, on the device, with your permission, and files them as loops — and if you use ZENUG+ to sort that import, the titles and dates pass through the AI triage described above. Connecting Apple Calendar shows your own events behind the date — read-only and entirely on the device; ZENUG never writes to your calendar, and your calendar data never leaves your phone. Both permissions can be revoked in iOS Settings at any time.
Assist copies a task’s text to your clipboard and opens the assistant app you chose. ZENUG sends no request and receives no result — it is a hand-off, like the Share Sheet. What happens next is between you and that app.
The daily nudge is a local notification scheduled on your device. There is no push server.
The one record we can hold — the ZENUG+ usage counter — identifies no one to us; everything else is on your phone, under your control. Write to us and we will erase your counter. If you believe we hold something about you, write to us and we will answer. Under the GDPR you may also complain to your local data protection authority.
If a future version changes any of this, the policy will be updated here and noted in the App Store release notes.