Privacy Policy
Effective 9 October 2026
Glosser has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. Its developer runs no server, and nothing you do in the app is sent to the developer.
What stays on your iPhone
Your language, saved words, word lists, review history, clips, downloaded episodes, transcripts and settings are stored in the app on your iPhone. They are included in your iPhone’s own backups if you have backups turned on. Deleting the app deletes them.
Transcription, translation and word lookups run on the iPhone, using Apple’s on-device speech and translation models. The audio you listen to is not sent anywhere to be transcribed.
The app asks for no permissions: no microphone, location, contacts or photos. Files are opened only when you choose them in the Files picker.
What the app fetches, and from whom
To play and explain what you listen to, the app requests content from these services:
- Podcasts: a show’s feed, episodes and artwork come from the publisher or whoever hosts them.
- Podcast search: Apple’s podcast directory receives what you type into Search.
- Radio stations: station lists come from radio-browser.info, a free community directory. When you play one of its stations, the app tells the directory that the station was played, as the directory asks apps to. The audio comes from the station’s own server.
- Artwork for shows and stations comes from wherever each is hosted.
- Links you paste into Search: the app fetches that address once to see what it points to.
- Word recordings: when a word’s sheet opens and the dictionary has a recording of it, the recording comes from Wikimedia Commons.
- Dictionaries and speech models: iOS downloads them from Apple when you choose a language.
These requests carry no account, name or device identifier. Like any web request, each one shows the service your IP address and what was asked for, and that service handles it under its own privacy policy.
What you choose to send
- Report a problem opens a message that you send yourself. It contains the app’s version, your language, your iOS version, what was playing and, for an episode, where. It also attaches the session log, which includes the transcript of what was playing. You can read it all before sending.
- Exports of your words (CSV or an Anki deck) go wherever you send them.
- TestFlight and App Store: if you test the app with TestFlight, or have “Share with App Developers” turned on, Apple may pass crash reports and any feedback you send to the developer. Apple’s privacy policy covers these.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.
Contact
Amitai Halberstam, the developer of Glosser: glosser.contact@gmail.com