The short version: your notebook stays on your phone.
Mosquito has no account, no advertising, and no server of its own. What you write is never sent anywhere. There is one exception, and the last screen of onboarding tells you about it: an anonymous count of how the app gets used, with none of its contents. It starts on, settings turns it off, and everything below explains exactly what it is.
Nothing you write. Ever. Your notes, the names you give a recurring thought, the name you go by, your recordings and their transcripts, and your answers to the weekly questions stay on your device. There is no server of ours for them to go to, and no setting that sends them.
With share anonymous usage on — which it is unless you turn it off — we receive counts of what happened, never what it was. That setting is described in full below.
The last screen of onboarding tells you about this, and settings → privacy → share anonymous usage turns it off whenever you like. While it is off nothing is collected, queued, or held for later, and the app makes no network requests at all.
We don't put a permission prompt in front of you for it, and apple's rules are the reason: a custom prompt asking to collect usage data is treated as a request to track you, and this isn't that. Nothing here is joined with data from other apps or websites, no advertising identifier is read, and nothing is sold or handed to a data broker.
If you installed mosquito before this setting existed, you were told the app had no analytics. It stays off for you and you aren't asked again — turn it on in settings if you'd like to.
When it is on, the app tells mixpanel that a thing happened, and which kind:
Mixpanel attaches its own standard context to each of those: your ios version, device model, screen size, app version and build, and whether you were on wi-fi. It also sends two housekeeping events of its own the moment you switch the setting on.
That is the whole list. It carries random identifiers made on your device — not an account, not an advertising identifier — and no location: we switched off the ip geolocation mixpanel would otherwise do. Switching the setting off, or resetting all data, throws those identifiers away.
We built it this way because we wanted to know whether the watch complication or the widget is what actually helps people notice a thought, and that question can be answered with counts alone.
The notes you write, the moments you record, and any spoken memos are stored locally in the app's own data folder on your iphone. None of it is sent anywhere by us.
If you use mosquito on apple watch, your watch sends the moments you record there to your paired iphone, using apple's on-device connectivity between your own two devices. That data never travels further than your own iphone.
Spoken notes are transcribed on your device using apple's on-device speech recognition. If your device can't do that on-device, the audio is kept and no transcript is made — the audio is never uploaded anywhere to be transcribed.
If you back up your iphone to icloud or a computer, your mosquito notebook is included in that backup like any other app's data, the same way your photos or messages are. That backup is managed entirely by your device's own backup settings, not by us.
There is no crash reporter, no advertising network, and nothing that profiles you across apps or websites.
Two third parties are involved, and only one of them is optional. Apple, for on-device speech recognition and for the icloud or device backups you control yourself. And mixpanel, which receives the anonymous counts described above, and only while you have that setting switched on.
Settings → reset all data erases your notebook on that device, throws away the anonymous usage identifiers, and tells your paired watch to do the same the next time it connects. Deleting the app deletes its data with it, subject to your device's own backup settings.
You can also switch share anonymous usage off at any time without erasing anything else. That stops the counts and discards the identifiers behind them. Your choice survives a reset, so resetting never switches it back on if you had turned it off.
Mosquito isn't directed at children and doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age. The usage counts describe the app, not the person using it, and can be switched off at the first screen that mentions them.
If this ever changes — for instance, if we add an optional feature that does leave the device — we'll update this page and the in-app privacy screen before that feature ships, not after.
Questions about this policy: [email protected].