Privacy policy
Stewbot is a cooking app for iPhone and iPad, made by Neatifai LLC in the United States. This policy says what Stewbot collects, why, who helps run it, how long things are kept, and the choices you have. It covers the app and this website.
The short version
- Your cookbook is private. Only you can see what you save in Stewbot.
- Stewbot doesn’t sell your information, show ads, or use trackers.
- AI help is your choice. With it on, recipes and questions go to Anthropic, which makes the Claude AI, and words Stewbot reads aloud go to ElevenLabs. Neither gets your name or email, and neither trains its AI on what you send.
- Your voice stays on your iPhone or iPad, and photos aren’t kept.
- Deleting your account in the app deletes everything in it, right away.
- Stewbot is for people 13 and older in the United States.
What Stewbot collects
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Your account
Your email address. Your name, if Apple or Google shares it when you sign in. How you sign in (with Apple, Google or a code sent by email), when you made your account, and when you last signed in. Your answer to “Stewbot uses AI to help you cook”, with which version of the question you saw and when you answered.
If you sign in with Apple, Apple’s ID for your account and a token Stewbot keeps encrypted, only so it can end its link to your Apple Account when you delete your Stewbot account. Stewbot has no passwords, and doesn’t keep your photo, your device’s name or your network address with your account.
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Your cookbook
The recipes you save: Stewbot’s simple version, and the recipe as written, which means its title, ingredients, steps, servings and times, never a page’s story, photos or ads. With each recipe, its link and its site’s name, for credit, and your notes, your favorites, the days you cooked it and Stewbot’s heads-ups for its steps. Your saved meals, the dishes you cook together.
A page written for subscribers, or from a site that asked Stewbot to keep just links, keeps just its name and link. Your cookbook is kept in a private store of its own, which only your account can open. A page you save from Safari’s share sheet waits there until Stewbot has broken it down, usually a few seconds and at most about a day, and is then deleted.
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Your plan
Whether you’re on the free plan or Stewbot Plus, and a random billing ID, which RevenueCat knows you by instead of your account, email or name. What RevenueCat last said about your subscription: when it renews or ends, whether it’s a free trial, and whether Apple had trouble taking a payment. Stewbot never sees your card or payment details.
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How much you’ve used
Counts of the AI help you’ve used each month and each day, such as recipes broken down and questions asked, so your plan’s limits can apply, and an estimate of what your use cost Stewbot. Never what you asked or saved.
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Signing in
A sign-in for each device, which the device keeps in its keychain. The codes Stewbot emails you, kept only in a scrambled form (a hash). Counts of sign-in attempts, kept under scrambled keys rather than email or network addresses, to slow down anyone guessing.
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What Stewbot handles without keeping
Some things pass through Stewbot’s server to do what you asked, and aren’t stored there: photos of recipes, your questions while cooking and their answers, your answers in Make me something, a recipe you cook with Cook now, and the words Stewbot reads aloud. Stewbot and AI says where they go.
Stewbot doesn’t collect your location, your contacts, your health records, what you browse, or advertising identifiers.
On your iPhone or iPad
- Your cookbook is copied to your device, so it works without a connection. Recipes you add while offline wait there until they can sync.
- Your voice. When you use voice commands or ask a question out loud, what you say is turned into text on your device, by Apple’s speech recognition, and no sound leaves it. A question you ask out loud goes to Stewbot as its words, like a typed one. Stewbot asks for the microphone only when you first turn listening on.
- Photos. A photo of a recipe, or one for “Does this look right?”, is made smaller on your device and sent once to be read. The files it leaves on your device are deleted as soon as it’s read. Choosing a photo uses Apple’s photo picker, which shows Stewbot only the photos you pick.
- Cook now. A recipe you cook with Cook now stays on your device only until you finish, or for a day, unless you choose to save it.
- Stewbot’s voice. The audio of a recipe’s steps, kept so cooking it again is quick and works offline.
- Your choices on this device, such as US or metric units, reading aloud, and what you’ve asked Make me something to avoid.
- Timers, which stay on your device and are never synced.
Signing out deletes your cookbook, Stewbot’s audio and what Make me something remembers from that device, and stops its timers. Your choices of units and reading aloud stay.
How Stewbot uses it
- To run Stewbot for you: signing you in, keeping your cookbook up to date on your devices, breaking recipes down, answering your questions while you cook, and reading aloud.
- To apply your plan and its limits, and to restore a purchase.
- To email you sign-in codes and, rarely, important news about your account or these policies. Stewbot sends no newsletters or marketing.
- To keep Stewbot working and safe: slowing down abuse, backing up cookbooks, keeping an eye on what Stewbot’s AI costs, and answering you when you write to support.
- Never for advertising, and never sold. Nothing you send is used to train AI.
Stewbot and AI
Stewbot asks before it uses AI, and you can change your answer anytime in Settings, AI help. With AI help off, Stewbot sends nothing to Anthropic or ElevenLabs: you can still save links and type recipes in as written, and cook from them.
With it on, Stewbot’s server sends each request only what it needs, and nothing that says who you are: no name, email or account.
| When | What goes |
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| You save a recipe, cook one with Cook now, or take a photo of one | The recipe data the page publishes, or its text; the text you paste or type; or the photos, up to 4 pages of one recipe |
| You ask Stewbot to break down a saved recipe | The recipe as your cookbook keeps it, without your notes |
| You start cooking a recipe for the first time | Stewbot’s version of it, to write heads-ups for its steps |
| You ask Stewbot a question | The recipe, the step you’re on, this cook’s earlier questions and answers, your question, and any photo you add. When you cook dishes together, the other dishes too |
| You use Make me something | What you have, what sounds good, how much time you have, anything to avoid, and the names of ideas you’ve already seen |
| You cook two or three dishes together (Stewbot Plus) | The dishes, with their servings, to plan the steps |
| Stewbot reads aloud in its own voice (Stewbot Plus) | To ElevenLabs: the words being read, such as a step or an answer |
Anthropic doesn’t train its models on what Stewbot sends. It deletes it within 30 days, unless its safety systems flag it as breaking its usage policy, when it can keep it for up to 2 years.
ElevenLabs makes Stewbot’s voice from the words. Its training is turned off for Stewbot, and Stewbot deletes each recording from ElevenLabs as soon as it’s made. ElevenLabs’ backups keep a deleted recording for up to 30 days, and its own safety and debugging logs may keep parts of it longer.
AI can make mistakes. Stewbot checks each breakdown against the recipe it came from, but check anything that matters, like amounts, times and temperatures, against the original. The terms say more.
Who helps run Stewbot
Stewbot is made by one small company, Neatifai LLC. These companies get information only to provide their part of Stewbot, under their agreements with Neatifai and their own privacy policies.
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Cloudflare
Runs Stewbot’s server, its database, the private store that holds each cookbook, the nightly backups, and this website.
What it getsEverything Stewbot stores, and each connection to Stewbot and this website, with your device’s network (IP) address. Its logs of requests to them never include a recipe, a question or anything you saved, and are kept for up to 7 days.
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Anthropic
The Claude AI, which breaks recipes down, writes heads-ups, answers questions, makes up Make me something’s ideas and plans dishes cooked together, when AI help is on.
What it getsWhat each request needs (Stewbot and AI), with nothing that says who you are.
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ElevenLabs
Stewbot’s own voice, with Stewbot Plus and AI help on.
What it getsThe words being read aloud, with nothing that says who you are.
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Resend
Sends the sign-in codes Stewbot emails you.
What it getsYour email address and the email with your code, which it keeps for 30 days.
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RevenueCat
Keeps track of Stewbot Plus, which you buy through the App Store.
What it getsYour random billing ID, your App Store purchases, and basic facts its software sends from the app, such as the app’s and iOS’s versions, your language and your App Store country. Never your email, your name or your recipes.
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Apple
Sign in with Apple, if you use it, and the App Store, which sells Stewbot Plus and takes your payment.
What it getsIf you sign in with Apple, Apple tells Stewbot your Apple Account’s ID for Stewbot, an email address, which can be a private relay address that forwards to you, and, the first time, your name if you choose to share it. Apple keeps its own records of your purchases. If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device’s settings, Apple shares crash reports and app statistics with Neatifai, without your name.
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Google
Sign in with Google, if you use it, and the inbox for support@stewbot.app (Google Workspace).
What it getsIf you sign in with Google, Google tells Stewbot your email address, your name and your profile picture, which Stewbot doesn’t keep. Email you send to support stays in that inbox.
Neatifai shares information with the authorities only when the law requires it.
The sites your recipes come from
When you paste a link, or share one from an app other than Safari, your device fetches the page from its site, the way a browser does. It names itself as Stewbot and sends no cookies, and the site sees a visit from your device’s network address, as it would from your browser. When you share a page from Safari, Stewbot reads the page Safari already has open. Stewbot’s server never visits recipe sites. How Stewbot treats recipes says more.
How long things are kept
| What | Kept |
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| Your account and your cookbook | Until you delete them |
| A recipe or meal you delete | Gone from your cookbook at once, leaving only a note that it was deleted, so your other devices delete it too |
| Nightly backups of your cookbook | 14 days |
| Cloudflare’s own recovery copies of Stewbot’s database and stores | 30 days |
| A sign-in on a device | Until you sign out there or delete your account. It stops working after 60 days without use |
| A sign-in code | It works for 5 minutes, and only its scrambled form is kept |
| Counts of sign-in attempts | Up to a day |
| Counts of your AI use | Each day’s for 2 days; each month’s with your account |
| Your answer to the AI question, and your plan | With your account |
| Logs of requests to Stewbot’s server and this website, which never include what you saved or asked | Up to 7 days |
| What Anthropic receives | Up to 30 days, or 2 years if its safety systems flag it |
| What ElevenLabs receives | Deleted as soon as it’s made, and up to 30 days in its backups |
| Sign-in code emails, at Resend | 30 days |
| Email you send to support | Until it’s deleted. Ask, and we’ll delete it |
Deleting your account
In the app, go to Settings, Delete account. If you haven’t signed in during the last 15 minutes, Stewbot asks you to sign in again first, to make sure it’s you. Deleting is immediate, and can’t be undone:
- your cookbook and saved meals, and their backups, are deleted;
- your account, your sign-ins on every device, your answer to the AI question, your counts and your plan are deleted, and your devices sign out;
- if you signed in with Apple, Stewbot gives up its link to your Apple Account, as if you’d removed it in Apple’s settings;
- your customer record at RevenueCat is deleted.
Cloudflare’s own recovery copies expire within 30 days, and Stewbot can’t clear them sooner. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel Stewbot Plus, which Apple bills: cancel it in your device’s Settings, your name, Subscriptions. Apple keeps its own records of your purchases. You can also delete any recipe or meal on its own.
Your choices and rights
- See and change what you’ve saved in the app, and delete any of it.
- Turn AI help off or on in Settings, AI help, and reading aloud and voice commands in Settings or before you cook.
- Ask for a copy of your information, or anything else about your privacy, at support@stewbot.app.
Depending on where you live, the law may give you rights to know about, get a copy of, correct or delete your information, to appeal a decision about a request, and to opt out of its sale, though Stewbot doesn’t sell it. Stewbot honors these requests for everyone, and answers within 30 days. The consumer health data policy covers what could say something about your health.
Children
Stewbot isn’t for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them. If we learn that an account belongs to a child under 13, we’ll delete it; if you think one does, email us. People 13 to 17 can use Stewbot with a parent’s or guardian’s permission, as the terms say.
Keeping it safe
Connections to Stewbot are encrypted. Each cookbook is kept in a store of its own, which answers only its own account, and Stewbot’s tests try to reach other people’s recipes and must fail. Sign-in codes and counts are kept only in scrambled form, and Apple’s token is encrypted. Stewbot never writes your recipes, questions or answers into its logs. No security is perfect: if something happens that affects your information, we’ll tell you as the law requires.
Stewbot is offered in the United States, and run by Neatifai LLC from the United States. The companies above may handle what they receive in other countries, under their own agreements.
Information from Google
If you sign in with Google, Stewbot receives your email address, your name and your profile picture, and Google confirms the email address is yours. Stewbot uses them only to sign you in and keep your account. It doesn’t keep the picture, and it shares none of it. Stewbot’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Changes and contact
When this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date. If a change matters, Stewbot tells you by email or in the app before it takes effect.
Questions about privacy: support@stewbot.app. Stewbot is made by Neatifai LLC, Illinois, USA.