Menu Pronunciation for iPhone
Privacy policy
Effective 17 October 2026. Published by Kaswin USA LLC ("we", "us"). Written for Menu Pronunciation 1.0.0.
The short version
- Menu Pronunciation has no account, no sign-up and no history. It does not save the menus you read or the dishes you open.
- Your menu photos never leave your iPhone. The app reads their text on the phone, with Apple's built-in text recognition.
- What does leave the phone is a dish name, sent to Wikipedia to find a general picture of the dish, and anything you choose to send us with the Bug button, and, where your version has them, Ask about this dish and Hear it said. Each is listed below.
- The app contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash-reporting service and no tracking. We do not sell or share your data.
What stays on your iPhone
- Menu photos and the camera view. When you tap Read menu, the app takes one still frame from the camera into its temporary cache on the phone, which iOS clears. When you tap Choose photo, iOS hands the app only the one photo you pick. Either way, Apple's Vision framework reads the text on the phone. The photo is not uploaded, saved to your library or kept by the app.
- The dish list read from the photo, and any name you type. They stay in the app's memory until you scan again or close it.
- Saying a name. Say it and the speaker on each row use the voices built into iOS, on the phone.
- Speaking a bug report. On the Bug screen, what you say is turned into text by Apple's speech recognizer running on the phone only; the app requires on-device recognition, so your voice is not sent to Apple or to us.
When something leaves your phone
1. A dish name, to Wikipedia
When you open a dish, the app sends that dish's name to Wikipedia's public search (en.wikipedia.org) to find a general picture of it, and loads the picture from Wikimedia (upload.wikimedia.org). Only the name is sent, with no account and nothing that identifies you, although, as with any web request, Wikimedia's servers see your phone's internet address. Tapping the picture's credit opens that Wikipedia article in your browser. The Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy: foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Privacy_policy
2. A bug report, to us, only when you press Send
The Bug button opens a screen where you say or type what went wrong. Tapping Email support opens your own mail app with an email to support@kaswinusa.com already filled in. Nothing is sent until you press Send there. The email contains:
- the subject and the words you said or typed, which you can read and edit first;
- the screen you were on (Home, the menu list or a dish), the app's version and build, your iPhone model, your iOS version, and the time you pressed Bug;
- your email address, because the email comes from your own account.
We use these only to answer you and fix the problem. We keep the email in our mailbox until the problem is dealt with, and delete it on request. If no mail app is set up, the app opens our support page instead and sends nothing.
3. A question about a dish, if your version offers it
Some versions of the app show Ask about this dish. If yours does and you tap a question, the app sends the dish name, the menu's own lines about that dish, and your question to our question server, run on Cloudflare. The server passes them to Anthropic's Claude to write the answer and sends the answer back; it does not store them. Your phone's internet address is used only to limit how many questions one phone can send per minute. Anthropic handles the text under its commercial terms, which do not allow it to train its models on it: anthropic.com/legal/privacy. Cloudflare's privacy policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy
4. Hearing it said, if your version offers it
Some versions of the app show Hear it said, which plays clips of people saying the name from YouGlish, using videos hosted on YouTube. If yours does and you tap it, the dish name and its language are sent to YouGlish (youglish.com), and the clips load from YouTube, which see your phone's internet address and may set cookies inside that player. YouGlish's terms and privacy policy: youglish.com/terms. Google's: policies.google.com/privacy
What we do not do
- No account, login or profile with us.
- No upload of your photos, and no copy of the menus you read.
- No analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking software in the app.
- No selling or sharing of your personal information, and no use of it for advertising.
- No location, contacts or calendar.
If you have turned on Share With App Developers in iOS Settings, Apple may send us crash reports and usage statistics about Menu Pronunciation. Apple decides what these contain and they are covered by Apple's privacy policy.
Permissions the app asks for
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Camera | To show the camera so you can point it at a menu and read its dish names |
| Photos | Only the photo you choose, to read its dish names |
| Microphone and Speech Recognition | Only when you tap to speak on the Bug screen, to write down the bug you describe, on the phone |
Each one is optional. Without the camera you can choose a photo or type a name; without the microphone you can type a bug report.
Keeping and deleting your data
The app keeps nothing after you close it, apart from what iOS clears from its temporary cache on its own. Deleting the app removes everything it had on the phone.
A bug report you emailed us is kept until the problem is dealt with. Write to us to have it deleted sooner. Data held by Wikimedia, Cloudflare, Anthropic, YouGlish or YouTube is kept under their own rules.
Children
Menu Pronunciation is not directed to children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect data from them.
Security
Every request the app makes uses HTTPS. No method of storage or transmission is perfectly secure.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update the effective date above and, for a significant change, say so in the app's release notes.
Contact
Kaswin USA LLC, New York, United States
support@kaswinusa.com