Cellar and tastings
Your cellar, ratings, and private notes stay on the iPhone. They are not uploaded by default.
Privacy
On-device unless you say otherwise.
Your tasting notes are your own. Keep it local, minimize data collection, and only share what you explicitly choose to.
Anonymous app counts
The app may send a coarse event when you open it, finish a scan, or tap Looks right / Not this beer. That is a scene type or the guessed beer name — not a photo, not a location, and not an account. A rotating daily token is used to count active installs without storing your install ID.
Published reviews
If you choose to share a review, the app posts the beer name, optional brewery/style/ABV, rating, checks, review text, and either “anonymous” or a display name you typed. No account is required.
Recognition crops
Off by default. A crop is uploaded only when the Settings toggle is on and you confirm a thumbs-down on that scan. That payload is an install UUID, app/model/catalog versions, the original guess, your correction, and a compressed JPEG of the label crop. No location, contacts, or full uncropped camera-roll photos. Crops are rate-limited and deleted after 180 days. They are used only to improve aliases and visual references.
Catalog sources
Open Food Facts (ODbL 1.0), Wikidata (CC0), Open Brewery DB, and curated public facts. Optional Gemini text is flagged as AI-generated and is not copied from review sites.
Catalogue download
After the app is open, it may download an updated public beer list from this site. That file is names, breweries, styles, and aliases — not your cellar and not who you are. Identification still works offline on the bundled list.
Location
Local accolades can use the city you are in right now (coarse location). A home city you type is stored on the iPhone only. Location is not sent with scans, reviews, or crops.
Optional Gemini
If you paste a Google AI Studio key, Ask Gemini sends the beer name and OCR text to Google to write an original brief. This is off unless you provide a key. The key stays in the iPhone Keychain.
Retention
Anonymous usage events are kept up to 400 days. Opted-in recognition crops are deleted after 180 days. Cellar data is not uploaded, so there is nothing to delete on the server unless you shared a review or a crop.