Privacy

10 November 2026

Your data stays yours. Your personal data is stored on your device and syncs only with your own iCloud account. When you use Bud, what you write to it, the photos and pages you give it, and what it remembers about you go through Lifebud’s own server to Anthropic to be answered, and nowhere else; nothing is used to train anything. Lifebud’s server keeps only your plan. YouTube receives requests to retrieve video titles and thumbnails, the exchange-rate service receives requests for daily rates, and recipe websites may be contacted to load images for recipes you choose to view. These external requests are limited to the information needed for each function. Lifebud does not send your personal data to advertisers or sell it to third parties.

That is the whole of it. The rest of this page says the same thing in more detail, for each part of the app.

On your devices and in your iCloud

Everything you put into Lifebud is one document: your life areas, tasks, routines, plans, trackers and their entries, meals, spends, photos, bookmarks, recipes, grocery lists, conversations with Bud and what Bud remembers. It lives on your device. With iCloud on, it syncs between your devices through your own iCloud account, under your own Apple ID, with Apple’s CloudKit. Lifebud has no server that sees it, and we cannot read it.

A passcode, if you set one, is kept on the device as a hash. Profiles share nothing. Export writes the whole document and its photos to one file you keep; Import loads one.

The account

Lifebud has one account, and one reason for it: the plan Bud runs on. You sign in with Apple when you start a plan, and never before. Lifebud’s server keeps the account’s record: the stable id Apple gives for you, the name and email Apple shares (or the relay address, if you chose Hide My Email), your plan, its renewal day, what is left of this month’s AI, your top-up balance, and the App Store transaction ids that were credited. Nothing of your document is ever there.

Apple sees the purchase, as it does for any app. We never see a card. Delete the account in Settings › Account and the record is removed whole; the plan itself is Apple’s and is cancelled under your Apple Account.

Bud

Bud answers with Claude, Anthropic’s model. When you ask Bud something, the request goes through Lifebud’s own server to Anthropic: your message, the photos and files you attached, what Bud remembers about you, and the parts of your document the request needs (the week’s tasks for a plan, the meal for an estimate, the ingredients for a recipe search). Lifebud’s server adds its own key, streams the answer back, and keeps counts and errors, never content. Anthropic uses none of it to train, under its API terms.

A photo or a PDF you give Bud is uploaded once to Anthropic’s file store, tied to your account, and deleted when you delete the conversation or the account. When Bud works a sum out or draws a chart, that runs in Anthropic’s sandbox from the request alone. When Bud searches the web, Anthropic searches on its side; nothing more leaves your device than your message did.

If you add a key of your own under Settings › Bud › Advanced, it is kept on that device and used only after the month’s AI is spent, with requests sent to Anthropic directly on your key and billed by Anthropic to you.

Reading posts, videos and recipes

When you ask Bud to read a YouTube video, Lifebud’s server asks YouTube’s Data API for the video’s title, description and length, and asks Google’s Gemini for the words spoken and shown. An Instagram or TikTok post is fetched as the public post, through Apify, streamed into Gemini’s file store, read and deleted at once. A read is kept on the server for 30 days by the post’s id, so the same post again is instant, and nothing of yours is kept with it.

A recipe page you link is read on your device for its published recipe, and a recipe’s picture is fetched as a picture; nothing of yours is sent. A recipe’s ingredient lines, when you ask for its macros, go to Lifebud’s server, where Gemini turns them into foods and amounts and USDA FoodData Central is asked by food name; the food’s values are kept on the server for a year.

Your voice

What you say into a mic, in Bud’s composer, a note, a meal or Log by voice, goes to Apple’s speech service, which turns it into words; offline, or past the service’s limit, your device’s own recogniser is used instead. The words come back to the field, and nothing else is kept.

Google Calendar

Connecting Google Calendar is optional. Lifebud asks Google for read-only access to your calendars and shows your events beside your tasks. The token stays on your device, the events are cached on your device, and nothing from Google is sent anywhere else. Lifebud’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. Disconnect under Settings › Connections, or under your Google Account.

Apple Health

With your permission, Lifebud reads from Apple Health on your iPhone to fill the trackers you choose. Health data stays on the device: it is never sent to Lifebud’s server, to Bud, or to anyone else, and it never syncs through Lifebud. Change what is shared in the Health app on your iPhone, under Sharing › Apps.

Small requests the app makes

• A barcode’s digits go to Open Food Facts, for a product’s name, brand, picture and size.
• Two currency codes go to Frankfurter, the European Central Bank’s daily rates, for a travel rate on the Money page.
• A video’s id goes to YouTube’s title and picture hosts, for a card’s title and thumbnail. A video plays inside the app, in its own web view.
• A link you paste or share is read for its title and picture, from the page itself.

What Lifebud does not do

No analytics. No advertising. No tracking across apps or sites. No third-party SDKs that report on you. We do not sell data, and we do not share it beyond what this page says. The App Store privacy label says the same.

Children

Lifebud is not made for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep an account for one.

Your choices

Turn iCloud sync off and the document stays on the device alone. Revoke the microphone, speech, Health, camera or photo permissions in your device’s Settings at any time. Export your data whenever you like. Delete the account in Settings › Account. Write to support@lifebud.app for anything else, including a copy of your account’s record or its deletion.

Changes

When this page changes, the date at the top changes with it, and the app’s Settings › About › Privacy says the same thing in short.

Lifebud is made by LMNO Design OPC Private Limited, India. support@lifebud.app