Privacy policy

Effective November 10, 2026

Yap is an iPhone app made by Imran Syed. It helps you get better at talking by watching and listening to short videos you record. This policy explains what happens to those videos and everything else in Yap. The short version: it all stays with you.

The promise

• No account and no sign in, ever.
• No analytics, no ads and no tracking of any kind.
• Yap has no servers. We never receive your videos, your voice, your face or your words.
• Everything Yap learns about your talking is worked out on your iPhone.

Your camera and microphone

Yap asks for the camera and microphone when you record your first take. It uses them only while you record. Your takes are saved inside Yap on your iPhone. They are not added to Apple Photos unless you save one there yourself, and they are left out of your iPhone's device backup because videos are large.

You choose how long Yap keeps videos in Settings: forever, 30 days, or only until Yap has read them. Your scores are kept either way.

Videos you upload

If you pick a video from Photos or Files, or send one to Yap from the share sheet, Yap makes its own copy on your iPhone to read it. The original stays where it was.

How Yap reads a take

Yap reads your voice, your face and your hands on your iPhone. It uses Apple's on-device speech recognition to write down your words, Apple's Vision framework to follow your posture, eye line and gestures, and, when Apple Intelligence is on, Apple's on-device language model to judge structure and word its coaching. None of this sends anything off your iPhone.

If the words in a take suggest you may be going through something hard, Yap shows a screen with support resources instead of coaching. That check also happens on your iPhone, and nothing about it is sent anywhere.

iCloud sync

If iCloud sync is on, your scores, self ratings and written words are stored in your own private iCloud, so they are backed up and appear on your other devices. Only your Apple Account can read them. We cannot see them, and Apple's iCloud terms apply. Videos stay on the iPhone they were recorded on. Turn sync off in Yap's Settings at any time; nothing is deleted from your iPhone.

Sharing

Nothing leaves Yap unless you choose to share it. When you post your glow up or share a take, Yap makes the video on your iPhone and hands it to the share sheet. By default it shows only your numbers. Your clips and voice are included only if you turn on Include my clips.

Notifications, widgets and Siri

The daily reminder and the "your talk is ready" notice are scheduled on your iPhone. Widgets, Siri and Control Center read a small summary (your streak and today's prompt) from your iPhone. None of them send anything anywhere.

Purchases

If Yap offers a subscription, it is sold through the App Store. Apple handles payment, and we never see your payment details or your name. Yap only learns whether your subscription is active.

Crash reports

If you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports. They never include your videos, voice or words.

Children

Yap is not designed for children under 13 to use on their own, and it collects nothing from anyone.

Deleting your takes

Delete a take from its page in the You tab. Deleting Yap removes everything it kept on your iPhone. If you used iCloud sync, you can remove Yap's iCloud copy in the Settings app, under your name, then iCloud, then Manage Account Storage.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@getyapping.io