Privacy Policy

Effective October 8, 2026

In short: your cookbook stays on your iPhone. Mana has no user accounts, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. Only the recipe text, link or photos you choose to import — or a saved recipe you ask to translate or estimate calories for — is sent to our server to be processed, and it is not stored there. A recipe you send to another Mana user is stored until its link expires after 90 days.

This policy explains what the Mana app (“Mana”, “we”) does with your information. Mana is developed by Yaron Ogen.

Information stored only on your device

The following stays on your iPhone and is never uploaded by Mana:

Your recipes, including ingredients, steps, notes, tags, categories, favorites and ratings, and your cooking notes.
Photos you take or choose for a recipe, and photos downloaded with an imported recipe.
Your shopping list.
Your profile, if you fill it in: name, household size, diet, allergies, disliked ingredients and favorite cuisines. Mana uses it on your phone to greet you, suggest recipes and warn you about ingredients you avoid.
Your settings, such as language, measurement units and appearance, and translations of your recipes.

Information sent to our server

Mana uses a server (hosted by Supabase in the European Union) only for these features:

Importing a recipe. The link or text you paste, and the language you use Mana in, are sent to our server. For a link, the server downloads that web page and keeps only the recipe. To extract, clean up or translate the recipe, the recipe content is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic. The result is returned to your phone and is saved only if you choose to save it.
Translating a saved recipe. When you change the app language, the wording of saved recipes in another language (title, ingredients, steps, tags and notes) is sent to our server and to Anthropic to be translated. The translation is stored on your phone.
Importing a recipe from photos. When you choose Photo of a recipe, the photos you take or pick (up to three, reduced in size on your phone first) and the language you use Mana in are sent to our server and to Anthropic to read the recipe. The photos are not stored on our server, and the recipe is saved only if you choose to save it.
Calorie estimates. The first time you open a saved recipe, its ingredient lines and number of servings are sent to our server and to Anthropic to estimate the calories per serving. The estimate is stored on your phone.
Sending a recipe to another Mana user. When you choose Send to a Mana user, a copy of that recipe (title, description, ingredients, steps, times, tags, notes, its source and, for recipes imported from a website, the photo link) is stored on our server with a random link code. Your rating, notes from cooking, favorites and photos from your phone are not included. Anyone with the link can open the recipe in Mana. The copy is deleted automatically 90 days after you share it. When the recipient uses Mana in another language, the recipe is translated for them as described above.

Apart from recipes you send to another Mana user, our server does not store or log the recipe content you send. Anthropic processes it only to produce the result, under its commercial terms, which do not allow it to use the content to train its models. Like any online service, our hosting provider processes technical data such as your device’s IP address to deliver requests and keep the service secure.

Anonymous identifier and usage count

To apply the monthly import allowance and prevent abuse, Mana signs in anonymously: our server creates a random identifier that is not connected to your name, email, Apple ID or device. With it, the server stores how many recipes you imported or translated, and how many calorie estimates were made, in each month. If you enter a tester code in Settings, the server also records that this identifier has tester access. This identifier is kept in your phone’s secure storage.

Recipe photos from websites

When an imported recipe has a photo, your phone downloads that photo directly from the recipe’s website, so that website can see your device’s network address, as with any web request.

What we don’t do

We don’t use advertising, analytics or tracking tools, and we don’t track you across apps or websites.
We don’t sell or share your information for marketing.
We don’t require an account, email address or phone number.

Camera and photos

Mana asks for access to your camera or photo library only when you choose to add a picture to a recipe or to import a recipe from photos. Pictures of your dishes stay on your phone; photos of a recipe you import are sent once to be read, as described above.

Keeping and deleting your information

Information on your phone stays until you delete it in the app or delete the app. Mana does not back it up, so deleting the app removes your cookbook. The anonymous usage count on our server is kept to apply monthly limits; to have it deleted, email us. Recipes you sent to another Mana user are deleted automatically 90 days after sharing; to have one deleted sooner, email us the link.

Children

Mana is a general-audience cooking app and is not directed at children under 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR), you may have the right to access, correct or delete information about you, or to object to its processing. Because Mana keeps almost everything on your phone, most of this is in your own hands; for anything on our server, contact us below.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and its effective date. Important changes will also be mentioned in the app’s release notes.

Contact

Yaron Ogen · yaronogen@gmail.com