Privacy Policy
Larder has no account system, no server of its own, and no analytics. Almost nothing you put into it ever leaves your devices — and the one feature that does is off unless you switch it on yourself.
The short version. Your library is stored on your device and in your own private iCloud database. The developer has no access to it. Larder collects no usage data, contains no advertising or tracking SDKs, and never sells or shares anything, because it never receives anything.
Who this covers
This policy covers the Larder app for iPhone, iPad and Mac — listed on the App Store as Larder Maison — including its share extension and widgets. It is written and maintained by the app's independent developer.
What Larder stores, and where
Everything you create in Larder is stored locally on your device, in a container shared between the app, its share extension and its widgets. If you are signed in to iCloud, that same data is mirrored to the private database of your personal iCloud account so it can sync between your devices.
- Your library
- Saved links, titles, descriptions, thumbnails, tags, folders, extracted recipes, your own notes, and pantry items. Stored on device and in your private iCloud database.
- Reading archive
- For some pages Larder keeps a text copy so the content survives if the original link dies. Same storage as above.
- Search index
- Larder adds your items to Spotlight so you can find them from the system search field. This index is local to your device and is not transmitted anywhere.
- Settings
- Your preferences are stored locally on the device.
- API key (optional)
- If you choose to add a Claude API key, it is stored only in your device's Keychain. It is never written into the app's database, never synced to iCloud, and never included in exports.
Data held in your private iCloud database is governed by Apple's privacy policy and your iCloud account settings. The developer cannot read it, and receives no copy of it.
When Larder connects to the internet
Larder is not a silent app, and it is worth being precise about what it contacts and why. There are exactly three cases.
1. Fetching the pages you save
When you save a link, Larder requests that page directly in order to read its title, description, image and recipe information. This is a normal web request to the site you chose to save — that site will see it, as it would any visit. Larder sends nothing about you beyond what an ordinary request contains.
2. Playing an embedded video
If a saved item is an Instagram, TikTok or YouTube video and you play it inside Larder, the player is loaded from that platform. At that point the platform receives the request and can apply its own tracking, exactly as if you had opened the video on their site. This only happens when you press play.
3. AI recipe extraction — optional, and off by default
Larder reads recipes from a page using several methods in order: structured recipe data published by the site, then the page's own metadata, then a text parser. These all run entirely on your device.
If you add your own Claude API key in Settings, a final fallback becomes available: when those on-device methods fail to find a recipe, Larder sends the saved page's description text to Anthropic's API to try to extract one.
Please read this part carefully. Once a key is saved, this fallback runs automatically whenever the on-device methods come up empty — it is not a button you press each time. It never runs at all if no key is stored. To stop it entirely, remove your API key in Settings.
Only the page description is sent — not your notes, tags, folders, pantry or library. The request goes directly from your device to Anthropic using your own API key, so it is billed to and governed by your own account under Anthropic's privacy policy. The developer is not a party to it and receives no copy.
What Larder never does
- No analytics, telemetry, crash reporting or usage tracking of any kind.
- No advertising, and no advertising or attribution SDKs.
- No Larder account, so no email address, password or profile is ever collected.
- No selling, renting or sharing of personal data — none is received to share.
- No location collection.
- No third-party analytics or tracking libraries are bundled in the app.
Children
Larder is not directed at children and knowingly collects no personal information from anyone, of any age.
Your control over your data
Because the data is yours and sits in your own storage, you control it directly:
- Export — your library can be exported from Settings.
- Delete — deleting an item removes it from your device and your iCloud database. Deleting the app removes its local data; iCloud data can be removed from your iCloud account settings.
- Stop syncing — turn Larder off in your device's iCloud settings and it stays local.
- Stop the AI fallback — remove your API key in Settings.
There is no request to make of the developer to exercise these, because there is no copy of your data to request.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it. Material changes affecting how data leaves your device will be called out in the app's release notes.
Contact
Questions about this policy can go to tan.sharma+lardersupport@hotmail.com, or via the support page.