InkReader · Last updated July 20, 2026
InkReader (“the app,” “we,” “us”) is published by Ventiq LLC. This policy explains what data the app does and does not collect. InkReader is built so that your journals live on your device — not on our servers.
InkReader has no accounts and no sign-up. Your journals — the scanned images and the transcribed text — are stored only on your device. When you transcribe a page, its image is sent securely to our transcription service, converted to text, and discarded. We never store your journal images or text on our servers, and they are never used to train AI models.
Scanned page images and transcribed text are stored in a local database on your device. They are not uploaded to, or kept by, Ventiq LLC. If you delete the app, this data is deleted with it. Exports you create (PDF or text files) go wherever you choose to share or save them via the iOS share sheet, under your control.
Handwriting recognition runs in the cloud. When you scan a page, the app sends the page image over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to our transcription service, which passes it to Google’s Gemini API for text recognition and returns the text to your device. The image and the recognized text are processed in memory to serve your request and are not stored by our service. Google acts as a processor for this transcription only; the request is made under an API configuration whose terms do not permit the content to be used for training Google’s models.
Our transcription service keeps a small usage counter so free pages can be metered and abuse prevented: the number of pages transcribed, keyed to an anonymous device identifier, and short-lived request counters keyed to IP address that expire automatically within about a day. These counters contain no journal content.
InkReader uses your camera to scan journal pages and, if you choose to import from your photo library, reads only the photos you select. Captured images are processed on your device and stored locally as described above.
InkReader Premium is billed through your Apple Account. We use RevenueCat, a subscription-management service, to check whether your device has an active subscription; this uses an anonymous identifier and your App Store purchase state. We never see your name, email, payment details, or Apple ID. Payments and refunds are handled by Apple.
InkReader contains no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs, does not track you across apps or websites, and does not sell or share personal information.
InkReader is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Because your journals live on your device, deleting a page, a journal, or the app itself removes that data. To ask about the usage counters associated with your anonymous device identifier, contact us at the address below.
We may update this policy from time to time. The current version will always be posted at this URL, with the date above.