Privacy

Last updated 9 November 2026

Orchideae collects nothing about you. There are no accounts, no servers of ours, no analytics and no advertising. Everything you put into the app — your flowers, their stories, your Reviews and Reflections — is stored only on your iPhone.

What stays on your device

The people you plant, the notes you write about them and your weekly Reviews are saved in the app's own storage on your iPhone. They're included in your device's iCloud or computer backup if you've turned that on, under Apple's terms. We never see them.

Permissions

Orchideae may ask for these permissions. Each is optional, and you can turn it off in Settings at any time:

Contacts — to import a name and phone number when you choose someone to plant. Only the people you pick are copied into the app; nothing is uploaded.
Microphone and Speech Recognition — to let you speak a note instead of typing it. To turn speech into text, iOS may send the recording to Apple's speech recognition service, covered by Apple's privacy policy. Orchideae keeps only the resulting text, and never the audio.
Notifications — for gentle reminders. Any reminder is scheduled on your iPhone itself; nothing passes through a server.

Reaching out

When you reach out to someone, Orchideae opens the app you chose (Messages, WhatsApp, Signal and so on). What you send there is between you, that person and that app.

Children

Orchideae doesn't collect data from anyone, including children.

Changes and questions

If this ever changes, this page will say so before the app does. Questions are welcome at hello@smoothless.org.