Penne Privacy Policy

Penne: Recipe & Pantry Partner · Effective November 3, 2026

In short: Penne doesn't collect any information about you. There are no accounts, no analytics, no ads and no servers of ours. Your recipes stay on your iPhone and in your own iCloud.

What Penne stores, and where

Your recipes, collections, pantry, grocery list and meal plan are stored on your iPhone. If you're signed in to iCloud, Penne also keeps them in your private iCloud database so they appear on your other devices. That data belongs to your Apple ID; we can't see or read it.

Sharing with your household

If you invite someone to your household, Penne uses iCloud sharing to share your pantry, grocery list, meal plan and any collections you choose with the people you invite. You can stop sharing at any time, and anyone can leave.

Camera, photos, microphone and Reminders

Camera and photos: used only when you scan a cookbook page, recipe card, receipt or fridge, or choose a recipe photo. Images are read on your iPhone.
Microphone and speech: used only for voice commands in cook mode. Speech is recognised on your iPhone and isn't sent anywhere.
Reminders: used only if you turn on grocery sync, to keep your list in a Reminders list you choose.

Penne asks for each permission the first time a feature needs it, and works without them.

Smart features

Tagging, tidying imports, swap explanations and answering questions use Apple's on-device intelligence. They run on your iPhone; nothing is sent to us or to another company.

Importing recipes

When you save a recipe from a link, Penne downloads that page directly from the website, the same way your browser would. For social posts, Penne reads only the public caption; it never signs in to any site and never downloads videos. We don't receive the links you save.

What we don't do

No accounts or sign-in.
No analytics, tracking or advertising.
No selling or sharing of data, because we don't have any.

Deleting your data

Settings → Delete all data removes everything from your iPhone and your recipes from iCloud. You can also delete Penne's iCloud data in iPhone Settings → [your name] → iCloud → Manage Storage.

Children

Penne is suitable for all ages and collects no information from anyone, including children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Questions: open a request on GitHub, or see Support.