ALPAI
Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 20, 2026
- No accounts, no ads, no analytics or tracking.
- There is no developer server behind the app. The developer doesn't see, collect or store your data; only what you send yourself through the report form or email reaches them.
- Your conversations go directly to Google using your own Gemini API key.
- Everything else stays on your phone.
This policy covers the ALPAI iPhone app (“the app”), developed by independent developer Alp Ünlü.
1. What stays on your phone
The following is stored only on your phone and is never sent to the developer:
- Your Gemini API key: in the iOS Keychain.
- Settings: your chosen chip, the names you gave, voice and language preferences.
- Memory: things you ask the assistant to remember.
- Conversation history: the last 500 lines, encrypted with iOS file protection.
- Computer pairing: if you paired your own computer (Mac or Windows), its connection details and access token (in the Keychain).
- Timer and alarm labels.
This data may be included in your iCloud or iPhone backup according to iOS rules.
2. What goes to Google Gemini
The assistant runs on Google's Gemini API. The connection is made with your key, directly from your phone to Google. While the assistant is on, the following is sent to Google:
- Your voice: while the assistant is listening (not in sleep mode and with the microphone on), microphone audio streams to Gemini, which detects when you finish speaking. You can turn the microphone off with the on-screen button or by putting the assistant to sleep. If a conversation is ongoing, the app keeps listening in the background; iOS shows this with the orange microphone indicator.
- What you type and photos you choose.
- Camera frames: only when you turn the camera on, one frame per second.
- Tool results: results of tools the assistant uses at your request, such as weather, calendar events and reminders, a contact it looked up, battery and storage status, remembered facts, and results from your paired computer.
- A few lines of your last conversation: when a new session starts, so the chat can continue where it left off.
This data is subject to Google's terms: Gemini API Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.
Important: on the Gemini API free tier, Google may use submitted content and responses to improve its products, and human reviewers may read them. Don't share sensitive or personal information on the free tier. On the paid tier, Google doesn't use this content to improve its products. See the terms above for details.
3. Other services
| Service | What is sent | When |
|---|---|---|
| Open-Meteo | Your approximate location (latitude and longitude) or the name of the city you asked about. | When you ask for the weather. |
| Apple (location services) | Your approximate location, to find the name of your city. | When you ask for the weather where you are. |
| ntfy.sh | No personal data. The phone reads an encrypted connection address published by your paired computer; only your phone can decrypt it. | If you paired a computer and it can't be reached on the same Wi-Fi. |
| Your own computer | Commands you ask to run on the computer and their results, memory, files you request. | Only if you paired your own computer. The connection is encrypted. |
| YouTube | The search words for the video you asked for; the app finds the first result and opens it on YouTube. | When you ask it to play a video on YouTube. |
| Report form (Google Forms, via unlualp.com) | What you type and select in the form (including your email address if you enter it). The app opens the form in Safari with only the platform (iPhone) and app version filled in. Submitted forms are stored in Google Forms, in the developer's Google account. | If you tap SORUN BİLDİR (report a problem) or BANA YAZ (write to me) and submit the form yourself. |
| Email ([email protected]) | What you write; in the key help's contact draft, the app and iOS version, phone model and, if any, the last key error (with any key in it hidden). Your key and conversations are never added. | If you send the email yourself. |
For calls, messages, directions or WhatsApp, the app opens the relevant app (Phone, Messages, Maps, WhatsApp); you confirm the call or send, and that app's own privacy rules apply.
4. Permissions
Every permission is optional. A feature that needs a permission you didn't grant won't work; everything else will. You can change permissions any time in iPhone Settings.
- Microphone: voice conversation. Without it, you can type.
- Camera: describing what it sees, and scanning the QR code to pair a computer.
- Location (while using): weather where you are.
- Contacts: finding a person when you ask to call or message them.
- Calendars and Reminders: reading and adding events and reminders.
- Alarms: setting timers and alarms.
- Local network: finding your computer on the same Wi-Fi.
5. Deletion and control
- Memory and history: Settings › HAFIZA (Memory) › BİLDİKLERİNİ UNUT (forget) and GEÇMİŞİ SİL (delete history).
- Computer pairing: Settings › BİLGİSAYAR BAĞLANTISI (computer link) › EŞLEŞMEYİ KALDIR (unpair).
- Reports you sent: you can ask for reports you sent by form or email to be deleted by writing to [email protected].
- Key: you can change it in Settings. Deleting it at aistudio.google.com/apikey revokes it immediately.
- Deleting the app removes its data from your phone. iOS sometimes keeps Keychain items after an app is deleted; deleting the key at Google revokes it in every case.
- Data at Google: the developer holds no record of content sent to Google. For requests about that data, use Google's privacy tools.
6. Children
The app is not directed at children. Getting a Gemini API key requires meeting Google's age requirements.
7. Changes
If this policy changes, the current version is published on this page with a new date.
8. Contact
For issues, questions or requests: [email protected] or youtube.com/@alppunlu/community