Privacy Policy

Evening Reader does not collect, store or share any personal information. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising, and no server of ours. Nothing about you or what you read is sent to us.

What stays on your device

Your library — the articles, books and PDFs you save, your highlights and notes, your reading positions, and your display settings — is stored on your device.

iCloud

If iCloud Drive is turned on for Evening Reader, the library is also kept in your own iCloud account so that it appears on your other devices. It is stored as plain files — a Markdown note for each article and a folder of its attachments — under iCloud Drive › Evening Reader. This data belongs to you and is handled under Apple's privacy policy; we have no access to it.

What the app connects to

• The pages you save. To save an article, the app fetches that page and its pictures from the site that publishes it, the same way a browser does. That site sees the request; we do not.
• Sites you open. The built-in browser loads sites like any browser. Those sites may set cookies and see what a browser shows them; cookies and sign-ins are kept on your device so you stay signed in. The app keeps no list of the pages you visit.
• Site icons. When you add a site to the front page, the app fetches its icon from that site.

The browser extension

Save to Evening Reader, for Chrome and Safari on the Mac, saves the page you are reading into your Evening Reader library. It acts only when you ask it to: when you click its button, use its shortcut or choose it from the menu. It then reads the article from that page — its text, title, author, date and pictures — and hands it to a small helper on your Mac, which writes it into your library in iCloud Drive, where the app finds it. The helper downloads the article's pictures from the site that publishes them, the same way the page itself does.

Nothing the extension reads is sent to us or to anyone else. It keeps no history of what you save or visit, and it reads no page you have not asked it to save.

Apple Intelligence

Asking about a passage uses the on-device model provided by Apple Intelligence. The passage is processed on your device and is not sent to us.

Dictation

The microphone key on the app's keyboard listens only while you are dictating, and only once you have allowed the microphone and speech recognition. What you say is turned into text by Apple's speech recognition — on your device where your device can, otherwise by Apple's servers under Apple's privacy policy. The recording is not kept, and nothing you dictate is sent to us.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with the date updated below.

Questions? Write to jbobrow+eveningreader@gmail.com.

Last updated November 3, 2026