Data Handling

We take the privacy and security of your data extremely seriously.

The only way that Werdsmith makes money is through our customers paying for memberships. We do not serve ads, sell data or have product partnerships. We are not owned by another company.

Storing personal data is risky and costs money, so our goal is to keep as little of your personal data as possible.

At any time, you can contact us and ask us to delete all your account data from our system. Once we confirm your identity, we’ll delete all your data immediately and irreversibly.

The app doesn’t send your data off your device unless you explicitly ask us to. This happens in four cases:

1. You share your writing You can ask the app to send your writing somewhere, for example to another device or to a friend. Read more about sharing.

2. You have iCloud backups enabled If iCloud backups are enabled, a backup file is saved in your iCloud account. This allows you to recover your data if you ever lose your device. You can learn more about this in the app's Backups section.

3. You create a Werdsmith account If you create a Werdsmith account, a backup of your data is stored securely on our servers.

This backup allows you to recover your work if you lose it, to sync your work between your devices, and allows you to share links to your work with others (if you choose to).

Your account is secured by either a passkey, email address or both. If your account has an email address linked to it, anyone with access to that email account can access your Werdsmith account. Please make sure your email service has strong security enabled (especially 2 Factor Authentication and a strong password).

4. You ask for a writing prompt If (and only if) you choose to use the writing prompts feature, short snippets of your work will be sent securely and anonymously to our AI model for processing, so that the app can suggest something relevant to your writing.

Your data is anonymous, never shared with other people and never used to train AI models. You can read more about this here.