Privacy policy

Eureka by Rick · Effective 11 November 2026

The short version: the app collects no personal data. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no server of ours that your information goes to.

What stays on your iPhone

The facts you have learned, your answers, quiz scores, the hooks you write, the facts you capture and your settings are stored only on your device. They are not sent to us or anyone else. They are included in your device backup like any other app data. Deleting the app deletes them.

Spoken answers

When you answer a question out loud, your speech is recognised on your iPhone. The audio is not sent anywhere.

Apple Intelligence

Rewording questions, judging answers that are nearly right and drafting facts you capture are done by Apple Intelligence running on your iPhone.

Photos

When you pick a photo in Capture, it is read on your iPhone. The app sees only the photo you choose.

Wikidata

When you capture a fact, the app looks up its answer on Wikidata to show a matching entry. That request contains only the answer text, nothing about you, but like any web request it reaches Wikimedia’s servers from your internet connection. Wikimedia’s handling of it is described in the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy.

Maps

Map questions and maps in the app are loaded from Apple Maps. Apple’s handling of those requests is described in Apple’s privacy policy.

Pictures

All pictures in the facts come with the app; viewing them makes no web request. Their credits are shown on each fact.

Notifications, widgets and Siri

Reminders are scheduled on your iPhone; no push service is involved. The widgets, the share extension and the Siri shortcuts read and write the same on-device data.

Sharing

A score card or your facts file leaves your iPhone only when you share it yourself, through the share sheet.

Children

The app does not collect personal data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: eureka@byrick.app.