• Last updated: August 5, 2026

Recovery is a voice-first symptom journal. This policy explains what the app collects, where that information goes, and how to delete it.

Recovery is not a medical device and does not provide diagnosis or treatment.

The short version

• Your journal — conditions, check-ins, measurements, notes, and transcripts — is stored on your device, not on our servers.
• Recovery has no accounts. We do not ask for your name, email address, phone number, or date of birth, and we cannot identify you.
• When you use a voice check-in, your audio is sent to OpenAI so Recovery can hear and respond to you.
• Deleting the app deletes your journal.

What Recovery stores on your device

Everything you record stays in local storage on your iPhone, protected by iOS file protection:

• Conditions you track and their baselines
• Check-in values, comparisons, notes, and functional impact
• Transcripts of what you said
• The structured entries Recovery creates from those transcripts

This information is not uploaded to a Recovery account, because there are no Recovery accounts. It is not backed up to our servers. If your iPhone backs up to iCloud, your Recovery data may be included in that backup under Apple's privacy policy.

What leaves your device, and when

Voice conversations (OpenAI)

When you start a voice check-in on the Today tab, Recovery streams your microphone audio to our backend, which connects it to OpenAI's Realtime API so the assistant can hear you and reply. Your spoken words and the assistant's replies pass through OpenAI's service.

This happens only while a voice check-in is active. Recovery does not listen in the background or record when you have not started a check-in.

See OpenAI's privacy policy.