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Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

Readr is a local-first ebook reader. This policy is short because the app is built not to collect anything.

What Readr collects

Nothing. Readr has no analytics, telemetry, or crash-reporting code, no accounts, and no server of its own. The app never phones home. Readr is open source (MIT) — you can verify this in the code at github.com/readr-ai/readr.

Where your data lives

• Books, highlights, notes, and reading positions are stored only on your device, in the app's own storage. Deleting the app deletes them.
• API keys you paste in are stored only in the system Keychain on your device — never in preference files, logs, or any server.

When data leaves your device

Only when you explicitly connect a cloud AI provider and ask it something:

• If you add an Anthropic or OpenAI API key and ask the book a question (or compose an article), the relevant book text, your highlights, and your question are sent directly to that provider using your own key. Readr does not proxy, inspect, or retain this traffic. The provider's own privacy policy governs that data (Anthropic, OpenAI).
• In local model mode (Ollama on your Mac), requests go only to the local Ollama server on your machine. Readr's test suite asserts this path makes zero network calls.
• If no AI provider is connected, Readr makes no network requests at all.

Your choices

• Use Readr with no AI provider: everything works offline except ask-the-book and article composition.
• Disconnect a provider at any time in Settings → AI Providers; this removes the key from the Keychain.

Children's privacy

Readr collects no data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the update will appear in the repository's git history and on this page. Since the app collects nothing, changes would only ever describe new user-initiated features.

Contact

Questions: open an issue at github.com/readr-ai/readr/issues.