Privacy policy

Last updated: 11 November 2026

Chocky has no accounts and no servers of its own. We do not collect, store or sell your data, and there is no advertising or tracking.

On this device: your questions, answers, voice, memory, files, transcripts and settings stay on the device. The AI models, voice and encyclopedia run on the device.

Messages to people nearby travel directly between devices (Bluetooth or Wi‑Fi), encrypted end to end. Area chats go through public Nostr relays, through Tor by default; they are public to anyone in that area channel.

When you use the internet features (you can turn them all off in Settings):

• Weather comes from Apple Weather for your location.
• News headlines are fetched from the news sources you choose. To find local news, Chocky sends your location, rounded to about 1 km, to Wikidata to look up news outlets near you.
• Wikipedia lookups send your question's topic to Wikipedia.
• Distances use Apple's map service.
• If you connect your email, Chocky reads it directly from your provider; the password stays in this device's Keychain.
• If you choose ChatGPT, Claude or your own AI server under "Answers by", your questions go to that service under your own account and its privacy terms.
• Optional downloads (AI models, the transcription model, the Neural Engine voice) come from Hugging Face.

Permissions such as Microphone, Speech Recognition, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, Photos, Location, Bluetooth and Home are used only for the feature you ask for, on this device. You can change them at any time in Settings.

Children: Chocky is not directed at children under 13.

Questions: see Support or Email support.

This website

chocky.app has no cookies, analytics, trackers or sign-up forms, and never asks for your email. Its fonts, pictures and video are served from chocky.app itself. Like any website, it is delivered by a hosting provider (Cloudflare), which processes standard connection data such as your IP address to serve the page. We do not receive or keep it.