Privacy Policy

Last updated October 17, 2026

Recto is a recipe library that keeps your recipes on your iPhone. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. This page explains the few times anything leaves your phone, and why.

Your recipes stay on your iPhone

Every recipe, photo, note, favorite and grocery list is stored only on your device. We don't have a copy, and we can't see your library.

Reading a new recipe

When you import a recipe (by sharing a link or pasting text), your iPhone first opens the page itself, as a browser would. To turn it into a clean recipe, the recipe's text is sent to Recto's own server (run on Cloudflare), which passes it to an AI service to read, and sends the result back to your phone.

Only the recipe's text is sent: never your library, your name or anything else about you.
We don't store the text. Our server keeps no record of what you import.
The AI service processes the text only to answer the request. It may keep it for a limited time to detect abuse, and doesn't use it to train its models.

Translating a recipe into your language works the same way.

Photos

A recipe's photo is downloaded straight from the recipe's own page (or the post you shared) and kept on your phone.

Keeping the reader safe

So that only the real Recto app can use our server, your iPhone proves it with Apple's App Attest. This uses a random key made on your device; it contains nothing about you. To keep the service fair, our server counts requests per device or connection for a minute at a time, and then forgets them.

Purchases

Recto Pro is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your payment details or Apple Account.

Notifications

Notifications (a recipe being ready, a cooking timer) are made on your phone. No notification server is involved.

Children

Recto isn't directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date. Questions: [email protected].