Your notes stay yours.
Provider: Thunder AI Labs. Effective date: 30 October 2026.
In short
- Yotes works fully on your phone without an account, and then nothing you write leaves your phone.
- If you sign in, your notes, reminders and Spaces are backed up so they can sync and be shared with people you choose.
- If you use Yotes Pro, what you ask the assistant, and only the records needed to answer, is sent to AI services to produce the answer. Our server doesn't keep it.
- We don't sell your data, show ads, or use tracking or analytics.
Without an account
Notes, reminders and Spaces are stored in a database on your phone. Reminders ring through your phone's own notifications. None of this is sent to us.
With an account
You can sign in with Apple or with a one-time code sent to your email. Then we store:
- Account details: your email address, an optional display name, and your app language, which we use to send emails in your language.
- Your records: notes, reminders, Spaces and their items, when you turn on backup. They are stored with Supabase, our database provider, on servers in the United States. Only your account, and people you invite to a Space, can read them.
- Sharing: when you invite someone to a Space, we store their email address so they can accept. Members of a shared Space can see each other's names and email addresses.
- Pro waitlist: if you join the waitlist, your email address and language.
The assistant and AI
- Typed or spoken questions and photos you choose to send go to our server and on to Anthropic (Claude), which writes the answer. Anthropic is based in the United States and Sarvam AI in India.
- To answer, the assistant may read records on your phone. Only the records it needs are sent, for that one answer.
- Your voice is sent to Sarvam AI to turn speech into text. If replies are read aloud, the reply text is sent to Sarvam to produce speech.
- Our server keeps none of this content, and doesn't log it. It logs only technical details such as your account id, request sizes and usage counts, to run the service and track costs.
- Anthropic and Sarvam process this data to provide the service, under their terms for business customers. Anthropic's commercial terms don't allow it to train models on this data.
- Any change the assistant suggests is saved only after you tap Confirm.
Permissions
Yotes asks for notifications (so reminders ring), the microphone (only while you talk to the assistant), and the camera and photos (only when you take or choose a photo for the assistant). You can change these at any time in your phone's Settings.
Keeping and deleting data
Your data stays until you delete it. You can delete your account in Settings → Account. This removes your account and everything stored with it on our servers. Records on your phone stay there until you delete them or remove the app.
Children
Yotes isn't directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date above. Significant changes will also be shown in the app.
Contact
Questions about privacy: contact email to be added