privacy
updated 9 november 2026
the short version
old souls has no accounts, no ads and no tracking. your book stays on your phone. what you write leaves your phone only to have your poem written, and only after you say yes.
what stays on your phone
your name, the themes you chose, your reminder time, what you write, your poems, the poems you keep and your unsent poems are saved on your phone. we can’t see them.
the widget and the daily reminder work on your phone too.
what leaves your phone, and why
when the poet is on and you ask for a poem, what you write, your first name and the themes you chose are sent over an encrypted connection to our poem service. it passes them to claude, an ai made by anthropic, which writes your poem and sends it back.
our poem service doesn’t store what you write. anthropic handles it under its commercial terms and doesn’t use it to train its models.
to stop misuse, the poem service briefly counts requests from each internet address. our hosting provider, supabase, keeps standard technical logs, such as addresses and times, for a short while.
when the poet is off, nothing you write leaves your phone. your poems come from the old souls library.
how anthropic handles this data
membership
if you buy a membership, apple handles the payment. we use revenuecat to check that your membership is active. it sees an anonymous id and your purchase, never what you write.
what we never do
we don’t show ads, sell your data, or track you across other apps and websites.
your choices
turn the poet on or off at any time in settings.
to delete everything, use “start over” in settings, or delete the app. there is nothing else to delete, because we don’t keep it.
children
old souls is not made for children under 13.
on very heavy days
if you write about wanting to hurt yourself, old souls shows links to people who can help right now. old souls is not a substitute for care from a professional.
who we are
old souls is made by aletheia studio llc. if anything here changes, we’ll update this page and its date.