Privacy policy
Version 2 · 28 September 2026
This policy describes Capture Rocket version 1.0, the version you can download today. It says what the app actually does, checked against the app itself rather than against what it is supposed to do.
The short version
Capture Rocket has no account, no server and no way of sending anything to us. We do not receive your notes, we cannot read them, and there is nothing about you for us to lose.
Two things can carry your notes off the one device, and both are about your storage, not ours. Notes travel between your own Apple devices through your iCloud account, and that is switched on unless you turn it off. And if you choose a folder, Capture will keep a plain text copy of every note in it. Both are described in full below.
What we collect
Nothing.
Not your name, not an email address, not a device number, not a single figure about how you use the app. There is no analytics in it, no advertising, no trackers and no crash-reporting service.
The app does now talk to the internet, in exactly one way: it asks Apple's iCloud to carry your notes between your own devices. That is a connection to your iCloud account, using Apple's own system, and there is no address in the app for anything of ours. An earlier version of this policy said the app contained no internet code at all. That was true when it was written and it is not true now, which is why this page has a version number and a date.
What the app keeps
- The words of every note, and the version that first arrived — which is kept separately and never written over.
- Any pictures you add or share in.
- Any recordings, if you have chosen to keep them.
- Your project names and the other names you have told them to answer to.
- Your settings: light or dark, and whether recordings are kept.
- The backup files the app writes for you.
- A small file holding the number of notes waiting, which the Home Screen widget reads. It does not leave your phone.
- When you move a note into a project yourself, the handful of unusual words from that note, so the app can notice where you keep putting things. Not the note — just the words, with everyday ones thrown away. It is used to offer you a project and nothing else, the last two hundred are kept, and Settings shows how many there are and can wipe them without deleting a single note.
Turning what you say into words
When you record a note, Capture Rocket asks Apple's own dictation to write down what you said, and requires it to be done on your device. Not "prefers" — requires. Nothing you say goes anywhere.
If a device cannot do that on its own, Capture Rocket refuses to dictate on it and tells you so, and you can type instead. It will not quietly send your recording away to get around the limitation. We never see your recordings or your words either way.
Dictation follows the language your device is set to, among those Apple can recognise on the device itself.
Apple Intelligence, if you have it
On the brief screen, if Apple Intelligence is switched on, Capture Rocket can offer to tidy a brief using Apple's model. That runs on your device. Nothing is sent, no account is needed and nothing is charged. It is optional: the brief is built out of your own notes with or without it.
Your notes on your other devices
If you are signed into iCloud, Capture keeps your notes in step across your own iPhone and iPad. This is on unless you turn it off, in the app's Settings. If you are not signed into iCloud, nothing happens and the app works exactly as before.
What travels is the notes, the projects and the pictures. Recordings do not: they are large, and filling up somebody's iCloud without asking is not a feature.
It goes into the private part of your own iCloud account, the part only your devices can open. It is not shared with anyone, it does not appear in iCloud Drive for other apps to read, and we have no key, no login and no way to ask Apple for it. It counts against your iCloud storage, not ours, because it is yours.
Turn it off and the notes already on this device stay on it. To remove the copy in iCloud as well, use Erase everything in Settings while it is still switched on.
Keeping your notes in a folder
Capture can write a plain text file for every note into a folder you pick — usually so the notes show up in an app like Obsidian. This is off until you choose that folder, and nothing is written before you do.
It matters where you point it. If you choose a folder inside iCloud Drive, Dropbox or anything similar, the files go wherever that service puts them and this policy stops being the thing that governs them. A folder on the device stays on the device.
It only ever writes and removes its own files, the ones it created for your notes. It does not read, change or delete anything else that is in there, and it is one direction only: editing a file in that folder does not change the note in the app.
Your phone's own backup
This is the part most policies get wrong, so it is worth being exact.
Your notes, pictures, recordings and backup files sit in ordinary folders on your phone, and those folders are included in whatever backup you already make of the phone — your own iCloud backup, or a copy on your computer. That is your copy, in your account. We have no access to it and no way of asking for it.
If you would rather your notes were not in that backup, turn Capture Rocket off in your iPhone's own iCloud Backup settings.
Backup files, and anything you send on
Capture Rocket writes one backup file a day and keeps the last five. They are on your phone, and visible in the Files app under On My iPhone, so you can drag one into iCloud Drive, AirDrop it or email it. If you do, the file goes wherever you sent it and this policy stops being the thing that governs it.
The same is true of the Send buttons on a note and on a brief. They hand the words to whichever app you picked in your phone’s own share sheet — Messages, Mail, Notes, Telegram, anything. Capture does not send it; the app you chose does, and from that moment the words are governed by that app’s rules and not by this policy. If you pick Telegram, Telegram’s company holds a copy on their computers, an ordinary chat with a bot is not end-to-end encrypted, and deleting the message afterwards is a request to them rather than a guarantee. Nothing leaves without you pressing something and choosing where.
Deleting everything
Settings, then Erase. If your notes are travelling between your devices the button says so — Erase everything, on all your devices — and it means it: it removes the copy in your iCloud too, so the notes do not come back from the iPad an hour later. With that switched off it clears this device only. Either way it asks you to type a word first, and there is no undo.
Two things it does not do, and it tells you so on the screen:
- It does not delete the backup files. That is deliberate — the whole point of them is to outlive a mistake. Delete them yourself in the Files app if you want everything gone.
- It cannot reach a copy already inside your own iPhone backup. Only you can, through Apple.
It does not empty the folder of plain text notes either, if you chose one. Those files are yours, in a folder you picked, and deleting somebody’s own files without being asked is not something an app should do.
Deleting the app removes the app's notes, pictures, recordings and backup files from the device. It does not reach a copy already in your own iPhone backup.
There is no account to close, because there never was one.
Children
Capture Rocket is suitable for all ages and collects nothing from anybody, of any age.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever starts doing something this page does not describe, this page changes on the same day, and the version and date at the top change with it. We will not quietly widen what the app does and leave the words behind.