Privacy, in plain words.

Effective July 12, 2026

Pistochia is a place to empty your head. That only works if you can trust where the contents go — so here is the whole picture, without legal fog.

The short version

Your tasks live on your phone. Brain dumps, tasks, and steps are stored in a local database on your device — not on our servers.
No ads, no selling data, no tracking across apps. Ever.
Voice and text are sent out only to do the one thing you asked: turn your words into a plan.
You can export or erase everything from inside the app, any time.

What stays on your device

Everything you create — brain dumps, transcripts, tasks, small steps, completion history — is stored locally on your phone in the app's own database, along with your settings (reminder times, theme, energy picks). If you back up your device (e.g. iCloud), this data is included in that backup under your own account; we have no access to it.

What leaves your device, and why

When you speak

Voice recordings → transcription

Your recording is sent through our server to OpenAI's Whisper API and comes back as text. We use it solely to transcribe; per OpenAI's API terms, API data is not used to train their models. The recording itself is not stored on our servers.

When Pisto sorts

Your words → task structuring

The transcript (or what you typed) is sent through our server to Anthropic's Claude API, which returns the structured task list you review. It is used solely to produce that list; per Anthropic's commercial terms, API data is not used to train their models.

Always, quietly

An anonymous ID → fair-use limits

The app creates an anonymous account (a random identifier — no name, no email, nothing personal) with our backend provider, Supabase. We use it only to enforce daily fair-use limits on the AI features. Deleting your data in the app deletes this account too.

If the app crashes

Crash reports

Basic crash diagnostics (device model, OS version, what the code was doing) go to Sentry so we can fix bugs. Crash reports don't include your tasks or recordings.

Only if you opt in

Anonymous usage analytics

Off by default. If you flip the switch in Settings → Privacy, we count anonymous events (like "a brain dump was completed") via PostHog, hosted in the EU, to understand what's worth improving. Never the contents — we count that a dump happened, not what was in it.

The beta waitlist (this website)

If you sign up below

Your email → beta invite & occasional updates

If you join the waitlist on this site, we store your email address (with our backend provider, Supabase) and use it for two things only: sending your TestFlight invite, and the occasional update about Pistochia — rare, and only when there's something genuinely worth telling.

Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe. You can also ask us to delete your address entirely at hello@pistochia.com, any time. We never share or sell the list.

What we never do

No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
No selling or sharing data with data brokers.
No tracking you across other apps or websites.
No reading your content for anything other than the feature you invoked.

Your controls

Export my data (Settings → Your data): everything as JSON, delivered through the system share sheet.
Delete all data (Settings → Your data): erases every task and brain dump from your device and deletes the anonymous server account and its usage counters.
Analytics switch (Settings → Privacy): opt in or out any time.
Microphone permission is optional — typing works without it.

Retention

Local data stays until you delete it. Server-side usage counters are swept within 30 days. Anonymous accounts that show no activity for 30 days are periodically cleaned up. Crash reports and opt-in analytics follow the retention settings of Sentry and PostHog respectively, and carry no task content.

Children

Pistochia is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

A note on health

Pistochia is a productivity tool designed with ADHD brains in mind. It is not a medical device, and it does not diagnose, treat, or cure ADHD or any other condition.

Changes & contact

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll say so in the app. Questions, concerns, or data requests: hello@pistochia.com.