What RambleVault keeps, and where it goes.

Who is responsible

I’m Henrik, and I build RambleVault on my own. I decide how the data on this page is used. Write to hello@ramblevault.com with any question, or to ask for a copy of your data or have it deleted.

The app

On your iPhone

Recordings, transcripts and notes are stored on your phone, and recordings appear in the Files app under RambleVault. The microphone records only while a ramble is running. Your phone does the transcribing for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Cantonese. If Apple Intelligence is on, it tidies the transcript and suggests titles when you send something to Linear, all on the phone.

Your OpenRouter key and any connection sign-ins are kept in the iPhone Keychain, on this phone only. They are not synced through iCloud Keychain. Your phone’s own backups include the app’s data if you have backups turned on.

OpenRouter, on your own key

Notes are off until you set them up, either with the free notes below or with your own OpenRouter key. When they are on, RambleVault sends the text of each ramble’s transcript to OpenRouter, which passes it to the model you picked and returns the note. Only the text is sent for this, never the audio.

Your phone is the transcriber for every language unless you choose otherwise, and adding a key for notes does not change that. For a language outside the ten above, which the phone hears badly, you can choose a cloud model instead: when you set up the app, in Settings, or for a single ramble from its transcript. Only then is the recording itself sent to OpenRouter on your key to be transcribed. You can switch any language back to the phone in Settings.

Every request RambleVault makes to OpenRouter asks for providers with zero data retention that do not train on what they receive. If no such provider can take a request, it fails and the app tells you. It never falls back to one that keeps data. This holds for a free note too. On your own key, OpenRouter is your account with them, and their own privacy policy and your settings there apply too. OpenRouter bills your key, and the app keeps a record of what each note and transcript cost, on the phone.

Free notes, and the key service

Your first 3 notes are free. A free note uses my OpenRouter account instead of yours, with the same zero data retention requests as above. To give you one, your phone asks a small server of mine for a short-lived key. The server first checks with Apple that the request comes from a real install of RambleVault. It then returns a key that works for a short while. Your phone uses that key to talk to OpenRouter directly, so your recording, transcript and note never pass through my server.

What the server sees is that a phone asked for a key, and the network address the request came from. That address sits in Vercel’s platform logs, which are kept for a short time (currently one hour or one day, depending on Vercel’s plan). What the server keeps is a scrambled ID of your phone and a count of how many free notes that phone has used, never more than 3. It has no name, email address or account for you, and it cannot tell which note you wrote or what you said. I keep these two things only to stop the free notes from being used over and over.

After the third note, or if you would rather not use the free ones, you add your own OpenRouter key and nothing is asked of my server.

Connections you add

If you connect Linear or an MCP server of your own, RambleVault sends it exactly what you tap Send on: a line, a note or a transcript. You see what will be sent before it goes. Nothing is sent to a connection automatically. Once it arrives, that service keeps it under its own rules.

What the app does not do

No analytics, no advertising, no tracking across apps and websites, and no crash reporting of its own. Nothing about what you record, say or write reaches me from the app. The only thing that does is a free-note request, described above: that a phone asked, and a scrambled ID with a count. The other route is TestFlight, below.

The beta on TestFlight

The app is distributed through Apple’s TestFlight. To invite you, I give Apple your email address. Apple then shares with me what TestFlight shares with every developer: your name and email if you accept, which builds you installed and when, crash reports, and any feedback or screenshots you send from the app. Apple’s privacy policy covers its part.

This website and the beta list

When you join the list, I store your email address, when you signed up, which form you used and what you agreed to receive. The database is hosted by Neon in Frankfurt. You get a confirmation email, and an address that is not confirmed within three days is deleted. A confirmed address gets your beta invite and nothing else unless you agree to more.

Emails are sent through Resend. Open and click tracking are switched off, so no one records whether you read an email or which links you followed. Resend keeps a copy of each email it sends, and its account data is held in the United States. Deleting your address from my list does not delete those copies.

The site is hosted by Vercel, whose servers log requests, including IP addresses, to keep the site running. Vercel Speed Insights measures how fast pages load, without cookies. The sign-up form uses a small proof-of-work puzzle instead of a third-party captcha. Its one cookie holds your confirmation link for 30 minutes and is not used for anything else.

Signing up is your consent to be emailed about the beta, and you can withdraw it at any time. Hosting logs and spam protection rely on my legitimate interest in running the site safely.

Your rights

You can ask to see the data I hold about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, or to take it elsewhere. You can also object to how it is used. Write to hello@ramblevault.com. Your recordings, transcripts and notes are only on your phone, so deleting the app deletes them. The free-note count is the one thing kept elsewhere, and it is not tied to your name or email, so I may not be able to find it for you. If you think I have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to your data protection authority.

Changes

When RambleVault starts sending or keeping something new, this page changes before the app or the site does, and the date at the top moves.