The short version
- There's no account, and we don't run a server. Your journal is stored on your phone, and we can't see it.
- A few features need another service to work, such as maps and place search. When you use them, the details they need go straight to that service.
- On Android, tag suggestions use Google's ML Kit, which sends Google diagnostic information. It doesn't include your entries or photos.
- No ads, no analytics of our own, and we never sell anything about you.
Who we are
Antisocial is made by Human Focus. If you have a question about this policy or your information, email antisocial@humanfoc.us.
What stays on your phone
Everything you put in your journal is stored on your device and never sent to us: your notes, photos, videos, voice notes and their transcripts, tags, the places you save, and the app's error log.
Voice notes are turned into text by your phone's own speech recognition, on the device. Tag suggestions are worked out on the device too.
What leaves your phone, and why
Some features can't work without asking another service. Here is every case we know of. Each service handles what it receives under its own privacy policy.
Checking in and searching for places
When you check in or search for a place, your location and anything you type in the search go to Photon, a place-search service run by komoot, to find what's nearby. Your phone's own location service (Google on Android, Apple on iOS) also turns your location into an address. This only happens when you check in or pick a spot on a map.
Maps
Showing a map loads the map images for that area from OpenStreetMap's servers.
Links you save
When you save a link, the app visits that address to get its title and picture. For YouTube and Spotify links it asks their services for the details. Pictures for link cards load from the site they belong to, and artwork for saved music may be filled in when the app opens.
Playing videos and music
Videos and songs play in YouTube's or Spotify's own player inside the app. While they play, Google's or Spotify's privacy policy applies.
Tag suggestions on Android
On Android, tag suggestions use Google's ML Kit, which runs on your phone. When it runs, ML Kit sends Google diagnostic information: device and app details, performance, error codes, the kinds of events, and an identifier for this installation. Where it uses Gemini Nano, that can include user or device identifiers. It doesn't send your entries, photos or tags. Google describes this in its ML Kit data disclosure. This doesn't apply on iPhone.
Your internet address
Like any request over the internet, each of the requests above carries your phone's IP address to the service it goes to.
Your phone's backups
If backups are turned on in your phone's settings (Google backup on Android, iCloud on iPhone), your journal may be included in them. That's handled by Google or Apple under their terms, and you can turn it off in your phone's settings.
Exporting and sharing
When you export your journal, share an entry, or send us the error log, it goes wherever you choose to send it, and nowhere else.
What we don't do
- We don't ask you to make an account.
- We don't show ads or track you across other apps and sites.
- We don't use analytics of our own.
- We don't send your journal to cloud AI services.
- We don't sell or share information about you.
Permissions
The app asks for each permission when you first use the feature that needs it, and you can say no or change your mind in your phone's settings.
- Location: to check in and tag entries with where they happened.
- Camera: to take photos and videos in the app.
- Microphone: to record voice notes.
- Photos and videos: to show your recent photos while you write, so you can add them in one tap. Only what you pick is copied into the app.
Your choices, and deleting your information
Your journal is on your phone, so you're in control of it. You can delete any entry, use Clear all in Settings to empty the app, or uninstall it. Copies in your phone's backups or in files you've exported aren't affected.
Because we never receive your journal, we can't see, correct or delete it for you, and we can't recover it if it's lost. For information held by the services listed above, contact them directly. For anything else, email antisocial@humanfoc.us.
This website
This site doesn't use cookies, analytics or trackers, and its fonts are served from the site itself. Our hosting provider keeps standard server logs, such as IP addresses, to run and protect the site.
Children
Antisocial isn't made for children under 13, and we don't knowingly design it for them. Because the app keeps everything on the device, deleting it removes what a child has added.
Changes to this policy
If the app changes how it handles information, we'll update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches you.
Contact
Email Human Focus at antisocial@humanfoc.us.