Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 11, 2026

This policy explains what happens to your information when you use the Aura Kitchen app (“the app”) and this website. Aura Kitchen (“we”, “us”) is the developer of the app. Questions: support@aurakitchen.app.

What stays on your device

The app saves the following in its own storage on your phone:

• your settings (language, units, currency, theme)
• your goal, and the body details you choose to enter (sex, age, height, weight, activity level), used only to calculate calorie and protein targets on your phone
• allergies, diet, and foods you avoid or dislike
• your weekly budget and household size
• fridge contents, saved and imported recipes, your own recipes and their photos, meal plans, shopping lists and cooking timers
• your chats with Aura Chef and the tastes it learns from what you cook and save
• an AI API key, if you choose to connect an AI service (see below)

We never receive this information and it is not uploaded to us.

Subscriptions

Payments are handled by Apple (App Store) or Google (Google Play). We never see your card or payment details.

To check whether your subscription is active, the app uses RevenueCat. RevenueCat receives:

• a random, anonymous ID created by the app (not your name or email)
• your purchase and subscription records from Apple or Google
• basic technical details such as device type and operating system version

This is used only to provide, renew and restore your subscription. See RevenueCat’s privacy policy.

Aura Chef and AI services

The built-in Aura Chef runs entirely on your phone and sends nothing anywhere.

Optional: connecting your own AI. In Profile → AI connection you can choose an AI service (for example Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter or DeepSeek) and enter your own API key. The app asks for your agreement before connecting. After you connect, and only then, the app sends the following directly from your phone to the service you chose:

• questions the built-in chef can’t answer, with your last few chat messages
• your fridge contents, goal and number of servings
• your allergies, diet and the foods you avoid, so the AI never suggests them
• a photo, when you use photo scan, so the AI can recognise the food in it
• the text of recipe steps, if you choose the natural online reading voice (OpenAI only)

This goes straight to that service under your own account with them and their privacy terms. It does not pass through us and we cannot see it. Your API key is stored only on your phone and is sent only to the service it belongs to. You can disconnect at any time in the same screen, which removes the key from the app. Please don’t include personal details such as your name or health information in your questions, and don’t photograph people or documents with the scanner.

Barcode scanning and the camera

The camera is used only while the scanner is open, or when you take a photo for one of your own recipes. In barcode mode nothing is saved or sent except the barcode number, which is looked up in Open Food Facts, a free public food database (their privacy policy). Photo scan works only if you have connected an AI service, as described above. Photos you add to your own recipes stay on your phone.

Recipe import

When you paste a recipe link, the app downloads that page directly from the website to read the recipe. The website receives a normal web request from your phone, including your IP address, just as if you opened the page in a browser. Photos of imported recipes are loaded from that website.

Voice input and reading aloud

Voice input uses your phone’s built-in speech recognition: Apple on iPhone and iPad, Google on Android. Apple or Google may process your voice to turn it into text, under their own privacy policies. The app only uses the resulting text to find ingredients. We don’t record or keep audio.

Reading steps aloud uses a voice on your phone. The first time, the app downloads a voice file for your language from a public file host (GitHub). That request includes your IP address, like any download, and nothing about you or your recipes.

Notifications

Cooking timer alerts are scheduled on your phone. No push notification service is used.

This website

This website does not use cookies, analytics or advertising. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes standard request data (such as IP address) to deliver and protect the site. Fonts are loaded from Google Fonts.

Children

The app is not directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.

Deleting your data

• Delete the app to remove everything it stored on your phone.
• Or use Profile → Reset app to erase your fridge, plans, chats and settings.
• Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription. Cancel it with Manage subscription in the app, or in your App Store or Google Play account settings.
• To have your purchase records at RevenueCat deleted, email support@aurakitchen.app. Include your App Store or Google Play order number if you have one. We will delete them within 30 days.
• Data you sent to an AI service you connected is held by that service under your account with them; use their tools to delete it.

Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR or the CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal information, or to object to its use. Because we hold almost nothing about you, most of this is under your direct control in the app. For anything else, email support@aurakitchen.app. We do not sell personal information.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update it here and change the date at the top.

Contact

Aura Kitchen · support@aurakitchen.app