Privacy

Your journal stays on your iPhone.

Onionskin has no account server and no cloud of its own. What you write, photograph and record is kept on your device.

Last updated: November 7, 2026

What stays on your iPhone

• Your entries, tasks, repeating tasks, tags, photos and voice notes.
• Words heard in voice notes. Speech is recognised on the device where iPhone supports it; otherwise Apple's own speech recognition handles it, under Apple's privacy policy.
• Your calendar's events. Onionskin reads them to show beside your day and never sends them anywhere.

Your copy in iCloud

If you turn on the copy in Settings, your journal is saved to your own iCloud Drive, in your Apple account. We cannot see it. Turn it off at any time; you can also export your journal to a file.

Place and weather

Only when you allow location: the place an entry was written is named on your iPhone, and the weather for it is asked from Apple's WeatherKit. Your location is not stored by us.

Anonymous statistics

To learn which parts of the app are used, how well it runs and to find crashes, Onionskin sends anonymous usage events, error reports and performance figures to PostHog (servers in the EU). The figures are speed, freezes and memory use, as measured by iOS, and the rough size of your journal in wide ranges, such as 101–500 entries.

They contain no entries, no words you write, no photos, no tag names, no search words and no contacts, and are not tied to your name or Apple account. Your IP address and location are not kept with them. Turn them off in Settings › Privacy & data › Anonymous statistics.

When you write to us

If you send feedback from Settings › Write to us, your message and any screenshots you attach are sent to us so we can read and answer them. Nothing else from your journal goes with it.

Sign in with Apple

Signing in is optional. Apple gives the app your name and, if you choose to share it, your email; they stay on your iPhone.

No ads, no selling

Onionskin has no ads and no trackers from advertisers. We do not sell or share your data.

Deleting everything

Erase everything from this iPhone, in Onionskin's Settings, removes your journal from the device. Deleting the app does the same. A copy in your iCloud is removed from iCloud Drive in the Files app.

Children

Onionskin is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect their information.

Questions

See Support for how to reach us.