OUT LOUD
Last updated 30 September 2026
The short version. Out Loud has no account and no sign-up. Your camera is a mirror, and nothing it sees is recorded or sent anywhere. Your voice is matched to words and never stored. Your streak, your photographs and the affirmations you write yourself stay on your phone.
One thing does leave your phone, and only if you choose to give it: the short answers you type during setup, which are used once to write affirmations for you and are then discarded. That is explained in full below.
During a session the front camera shows your own face, live. It works the way a mirror works.
No video is recorded, saved, or transmitted. The camera image is drawn on the screen and nowhere else. You can turn the camera off entirely and the practice still works.
If you use the montage feature, one still photograph per session is saved. Those photographs are stored only on your device, are never uploaded, and you can delete them all at any time from the app.
When you speak, Out Loud checks which words of the affirmation you have said, so it can light them up as you go.
No audio is recorded, saved, or transmitted by Out Loud. Recognition runs on your device where your device supports it. Where it does not, iOS uses Apple's own speech recognition service, which is governed by Apple's privacy policy. Out Loud never stores your speech or any transcript of it.
During setup, Out Loud asks a few optional questions: what to call you, what has been weighing on you, whether anything is going on at the moment, and whether kind words tend to land. There is also a box where you can describe your situation in your own words.
Every one of these questions can be skipped. The app works fully without them, using its own written library of affirmations.
If you do answer, those answers are sent once, over an encrypted connection, to our server and from there to Anthropic's Claude API, which writes a set of affirmations for you. We do this so the words you say are about your life rather than generic.
Out Loud checks what you type on your device, before anything is sent. If it suggests you may be at risk of harming yourself, nothing is sent anywhere at all and no affirmations are generated. The app shows information about finding a helpline instead. Words that trigger this check never leave your phone.
Subscriptions are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details.
We use RevenueCat to check whether a subscription is active. It receives an anonymous identifier and the purchase information Apple provides. It does not receive your name or email address. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.
The backdrop images are downloaded from our server when you open the app. This is an ordinary request for a picture. Nothing about you is sent with it.
| Data | Where it goes | Linked to you |
|---|---|---|
| Camera video | Nowhere. Screen only. | Not collected |
| Microphone audio | Nowhere by Out Loud. Apple's speech service where on-device recognition is unavailable. | Not collected |
| Session photographs | Your device only | Not collected |
| Streak, history, settings | Your device only | Not collected |
| Affirmations you write yourself | Your device only | Not collected |
| Setup answers, if you give them | Our server and Anthropic, once. Not stored. | Not linked to you |
| Affirmations written for you | Our server, kept | Not linked to you |
| Purchase status | Apple and RevenueCat | Not linked to you |
Out Loud is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect, we will update this page and change the date at the top.
Questions, or a request to delete data: tahavisuals567@gmail.com