Privacy

When you tap Sort it, Sayso sends the words you said or typed to Google. It also sends up to 100 of the most recent items already on your list, so new items can be matched with old ones. For each item, it sends the text, category and a private ID number. Sayso also sends your phone’s date, time and time zone, so words like “this week” are read right. Cloudflare passes it on to Google (through its AI Gateway) with its own records turned off, and Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

A recording of your voice is sent first to ElevenLabs, then Microsoft Azure in Canada, then Cloudflare's own Workers AI, until one answers. Sayso keeps no copy of your words — only a daily count of which service answered. ElevenLabs may keep and use the recording under its own terms (see below).

Sayso sends your chosen photo or file and the language you're using to Google to read and explain. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

Sayso sends Google your question, the document, and your last three questions and answers in that conversation. Sayso saves nothing. The conversation is gone as soon as you close it.

When you take a photo of a card to fill in a form, Sayso sends the photo and the form's question to Google to find the number. Sayso keeps nothing afterward. Never use it for a bank card.

Sayso sends the form's questions and your answers to Google to write your answers in the form's language. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

When you speak a command, such as 'undo that', Sayso sends the words to Google to understand what you mean. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

When you speak in a form, a reply, a document question or your steps, Sayso sends those words and what is on screen to Google. This is to tell whether they belong somewhere else, like your shopping list. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

If you turn reminders on, two things are stored on Cloudflare's servers. They are your reminder times and a wake-up address (a code that lets Sayso wake your phone to show a reminder). Never what the reminder says. This is deleted as soon as you turn reminders off, or 400 days after it was last updated.

When Sayso has no picture yet for something you typed, that one word is sent to Cloudflare's own Workers AI to draw one. The drawing is kept and shared with everyone who types that same word — never linked to you.

When Sayso has no picture yet for a step of a recipe or a set of instructions, a short English description of that step, written by Sayso from your words or your document, is sent to Cloudflare's own Workers AI to draw one. The drawing is kept and shared with everyone whose step had the same description — never linked to you.

Sayso sends each item's ID, text, unit and variety, and your chosen language to Google to show your list in another language. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

Sayso sends what you say or type and the two languages to Google to translate. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

You choose each time whether to send a medicine label: Sayso sends only a photo you take or choose. It sends that photo and the language you're using to Google to read. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

Sayso sends the word you tap, the sentence around it, and your language to Google to find its meaning. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

For a call card, Sayso sends Google the task, its day and place if it has them, and the two languages. After the call, Sayso also sends the words you say about it. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

When you tap Help me start, Sayso sends Google the task, its day if any, the small steps already done, and your language. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

When you answer a letter, Sayso sends Google the saved letter (its photo, file or text), what you said, and the languages. Sayso keeps nothing afterward.

When you type or say your choice in Help me find, Sayso sends those words and your language to Google to read. To find places, your city, your language and your country (if it is the United States or Canada) go to OpenAI's web search. What you ask for goes too: the kind of help, who it is for, free or not, when, and any community or language you name. The part of the city, if you name one, and what the help is for go too: work, everyday life or a language test. Nothing else goes to OpenAI. Your place also goes to Sayso's own server, but not to Google. Sayso keeps nothing afterward. If you ask for choices, only the topic, your place and what matters to you go to Sayso's own server. For the free help topics, your language goes to Sayso's own server too.

This is a check Sayso's makers run to see whether its speech service is working. It sends nothing of yours. It only asks the server for its own daily speech numbers.

Sayso tells its server that something happened, for example "the app was installed" or "someone came back after a week". Once a day it also sends totals: roughly how much Sayso was used, and in its busiest hour. They also show which kinds of paper were read, and where in a form or in steps someone stopped. No name, no list, no words from your papers, nothing about you.

If you tap Yes or No under "Did Sayso get that right?", only that answer is sent. If you tell Sayso what you think, your voice is turned into words like any voice typing. Those words are sent and kept for up to 400 days. They go with the language of the app and whether you had just said Sayso got it wrong. If you turn on "Help Sayso hear better", each word you correct is sent as two words: the wrong one and the right one. If you correct a name, that name is sent. The language of the app goes with each corrected word. If you are testing Sayso and tap "Something wrong?", the kind you chose goes with your words. Your list is never sent with any of these.

When Sayso writes a joke, what you said that time is sent once more to the same AI service that sorts your list. Up to 10 jokes it wrote for you before are sent with it, so it does not repeat them. When you ask for another, what you said is sent again. It is sent only to write the joke, and it is not kept.

When you tap thumbs up or down on a joke, the joke, your tap and what you type are sent to us. We keep them for 400 days. Your list is never sent with them.

If you came to Sayso from a test invitation, its link holds a short group code, the same for everyone in your group. For 60 days from the first day this phone saw the code, it is sent with your answers. After that, it is never sent. It also goes with the counts. It never names you.

Sayso may ask you a few short questions. They cover your age range, gender, phone, how easy apps are, and your home language. They also ask about ADHD, dyslexia, language barriers and your accent. Each answer you choose only adds one to a count. It is never kept with your name, your list or the day. If you came from a test invitation, some counts are kept per invitation group. Health answers and gender never are. We never try to find out whose answer it was. We cannot take one back out, because we do not know which is yours. Our database provider keeps a short backup history of these counts; we never use it to see when an answer came.

If you came to Sayso from a link in one of our posts, the link holds a short code. The code names the network, and sometimes one video. Everyone who taps that link gets the same code. It is sent once when you arrive, saying whether this phone had used Sayso before. Then it stays on this phone for 30 days. In that time it goes with three counts: installed, first sort, and came back a week later. A newer link replaces it. The phone also keeps a list of codes it has seen, so a link tapped twice counts once; that list never leaves the phone. It never names you.

Every request also carries your internet address, which Cloudflare uses to count how many requests you have made. That count is deleted within the hour.

Sometimes Sayso listens with your browser's own speech recognition instead — for example Google's, inside Chrome, which may send your voice to Google. This happens while Sayso reads your list aloud, so it can hear you say 'stop'. It also happens on phones that cannot record for Sayso's own service. And it happens when Sayso is offline, or for about five minutes after a service fails.

If you suggest a group, your phone sends what you typed (the group's name, its address, the city and your note) with the topic and your language. Sayso keeps it for up to 90 days so it can check the group, with nothing about you.

If you sign up for Sayso news, Sayso's server keeps your email, your language, the date and time, and the exact words you agreed to. They are used only to send you news about Sayso and new apps from its maker. Sayso never sells them. They are kept until you remove your email, with the link in any news email or the form under "Sayso news" on this page.

While paying is open, your phone asks Sayso for the prices about once a day. If you pay for Sayso, Paddle (paddle.com) takes the payment and keeps your email address and what you paid, under its own privacy policy. Paddle's payment window runs on Sayso's page and may keep its own cookies. Sayso keeps a signed note on your phone: until when it is paid, and Paddle's numbers for your payment. Once a day, and when you tap “Change your card or cancel”, your phone sends Sayso its signed note. After you pay, it sends Paddle's number for that payment.

To use your payment on a new phone, Sayso shows you a short code and a button that writes one email with it to [email protected]. The code works for 30 minutes. Sayso uses your address only to find your payment. It is deleted once the payment is found, and within one hour at the latest. Our database provider keeps a short backup history (up to 30 days) in which the address can remain. We never use it to look at addresses. Sayso sends one reply to the address your email came from.

Free uses: if you confirm an email to get free uses of a paid feature, you send one email with a short code to [email protected]. Sayso keeps a scrambled fingerprint of the address; it cannot be turned back into your address. With no end date, Sayso keeps that fingerprint and the day and time of your first confirmation, so each address gets the free uses once. Whoever holds Sayso's secret key could check whether a known address has confirmed. The address itself is deleted within an hour at the latest. Our database provider keeps a short backup history (up to 30 days) in which the address can remain. We never use it to look at addresses. One reply is sent. Your phone keeps a signed note and counts your free uses itself.

If a centre gave you a code: Sayso keeps the code and a scrambled mark of your phone, so one phone counts only once. It keeps no name. The centre never learns who used the code. The code and the mark are deleted 30 days after the centre's paid time ends.

If you give your birthday, it stays on your phone. On your birthday, the app asks Sayso for your birthday gift of credits. Sayso keeps only the year it was given, never the day.

A credit pays for one use of a paid Sayso feature. You can get credits, for example, by buying through a marked shop link, as a birthday gift, or from a code someone sends you. When you tap a link marked with Sayso credits, the link carries a random number made on your phone. If you buy, the shop's partner network tells Sayso that this number bought something, the shop's name, and later whether it was returned. Sayso does not learn what you bought or the price. To give you the credits, your phone sends Sayso the numbers of the marked links you tapped in the last 120 days. Your phone keeps sending a number until its credits are active. It does this whether you bought or not, from your internet address. Sayso does not keep these numbers from your phone or write them down. It keeps a number a network reported for 180 days after its credits became active, then deletes it. When you send credits, Sayso keeps the code and how many credits it holds, never who sent it or who used it. It also keeps when the code was claimed, and a scrambled mark of the phone that claimed it. So that no credit is sent twice, it keeps a scrambled mark of each purchase the credits came from, never the link number itself.