Privacy

Effective October 18, 2026

Inkbee is a reading app. This policy explains what information Inkbee collects, why it’s needed, who helps us process it, and how you can get your data out or delete it. It covers the Inkbee app, the Inkbee api, and this website.

The short version: your reading activity is yours. We collect what the app needs to work, we don’t sell your information or use it for advertising, and you can export or delete it at any time.

Information you give us

Inkbee needs some information for practical or technical reasons. This includes:

Your email address and, optionally, a display name. Inkbee has no passwords. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, so an email address is technically required to create an account and to sign in on more than one device. If you joined the waitlist before launch, we keep that address too, so we can let you know when Inkbee is ready.
The documents you save. For each web page, markdown file or PDF, we store its title, author, site name, address (URL), publication date, lead image and full text. We also keep the original file or a snapshot of the page, so your copy stays readable offline and stays the same even if the original changes or disappears. When you save a link, our server fetches the page, not your device, so the website sees our server’s address rather than yours.
How you use your library. Reading progress, when you last opened a document, which documents are starred or archived, and which list each one is in. This is how Inkbee picks up where you left off on any device.
Your marks and words. Highlights, notes, tags, projects, the questions you ask, and conversation threads.
Your settings. Preferences, your time zone (so monthly limits and scheduled activity follow your local day), and any customizations you make.

Information collected automatically

Like most apps and websites, Inkbee automatically records some technical information as you use it: your IP address, device type and app version, when you sign in, and how much you use AI features. We use it to keep your devices in sync, send notifications if you turn them on, prevent abuse, manage costs, and fix problems. It doesn’t include the text of your documents.

We don’t use advertising identifiers, third-party analytics, tracking pixels or fingerprinting, in the app or on this website.

Storage on your device

This website sets no cookies.

The app keeps two things on your device. Your sign-in token is stored in the iOS Keychain so you don’t have to sign in each time you open Inkbee. A local copy of your library is kept in an on-device database so you can read offline and changes sync when you reconnect. Both stay on your device until you delete the app.

How inklings use your reading

To answer a question or comment on a passage, Inkbee sends the relevant text to an AI model. Depending on the request, that can include the selected passage and the sentence or section around it, the document’s title and summary, your related highlights and active projects, and the inkling’s memory of you. These requests always go from our server, through OpenRouter, to the model provider, such as Anthropic. Your device never contacts these providers directly, and they don’t receive your email address.

We don’t allow providers to use your content to train their models.

Some inklings go looking for new reading in topics you follow. Their web search queries are based on those topics, not on your identity.

You can turn AI off for any document. With AI off, nothing from that document is sent to a model, inklings stay quiet, and saving, reading, highlighting and exporting work as usual.

How we use your information

To provide Inkbee: sign you in, store and sync your library across devices, and produce inklings’ responses.
To send email: sign-in codes and essential account messages (for example, about a change to your email address or a deleted account). If you joined the waitlist or have an account, we may also send occasional news about Inkbee’s availability and major updates, and every such email lets you opt out.
To keep Inkbee secure and reliable: prevent abuse, enforce limits, investigate problems and fix bugs.

We don’t sell your information, share it for advertising, or use your documents for anything other than providing Inkbee to you. We don’t read your library. The exceptions are when you ask us to, for example to help with a support request, or when it’s needed to investigate abuse or comply with the law.

Who helps us run Inkbee

These service providers process data on our behalf, only to provide their service to us:

Fly.io: application servers and the database, hosted in the United States.
Tigris: file storage for PDFs, page snapshots, uploads and exports.
OpenRouter and the model providers it routes to (such as Anthropic): AI responses.
Resend: delivering sign-in and account email.
Expo and Apple: delivering push notifications, if you turn them on.
Cloudflare: hosting this website and storing the waitlist.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, to protect the rights and safety of our users or the service.

Retention and deletion

Your account and library are kept for as long as you have an account.
Deleted documents stay in Trash for 30 days so you can restore them, then are permanently removed along with their files.
Deleting your account (in Settings) signs you out on every device right away and prepares a final export of your annotations. Thirty days later, your documents, files, annotations, inklings, sessions, devices and usage records are permanently deleted.
Your email address is kept while you have an account or are on the waitlist, so we can reach you about your account and Inkbee. To have it removed, delete your account or email us.
Server logs and backups are kept for a short, fixed period and then roll off. Deleted data may remain in backups until they expire.

Security

Connections to Inkbee are encrypted, sign-in uses expiring one-time codes instead of passwords, codes and session tokens are stored only in hashed form, and files are kept in private storage that devices can reach only through short-lived links. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your data, and we’ll tell you promptly if a breach affects it.

International users

Inkbee’s servers are in the United States. If you use Inkbee from elsewhere, your information will be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. For significant changes, we’ll also let you know in the app or by email before they take effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy: [email protected].