Privacy policy
Last updated 9 October 2026
Synmit is an app for getting a thought down and sending it where you get things done. It's made by Ivan Horg in Sydney, Australia ("we" and "us" below). This policy covers the Synmit app for iPhone, this website, and Synmit Support.
The short version: your thoughts stay on your iPhone until you send them somewhere yourself. Synmit has no account and no server, and we never receive what you write, say or photograph.
Your thoughts stay on your iPhone
Everything you put in Synmit, the text, photos, voice notes and the transcripts made from them, is kept as ordinary files on your iPhone, in a folder you can see in the Files app. Your settings and pathways are kept there too. We have no copy of any of it and no way to read it.
Voice notes are turned into text on your iPhone by Apple's speech recognition, and tidied by Apple's on-device language model if you choose. The recordings aren't sent anywhere to be transcribed. The first time you use a language, iOS may download its speech model from Apple.
If a later version of Synmit offers iCloud sync and you turn it on, your thoughts will be kept in your iCloud Drive, under your Apple Account, and Apple's privacy policy applies to them there.
Where a thought goes when you synmit it
Synmit sends a thought only where you tell it to, through a pathway you set up.
Reminders and Calendar. Synmit adds it to the Reminders or Calendar app on your iPhone. Where it goes from there depends on the accounts those apps use, such as iCloud.
Email. Synmit sends it from your iPhone through the mail account you added, straight to your mail provider's server. Your mail password is kept in your iPhone's Keychain, which iCloud Keychain carries to your other Apple devices if you use it. We never see it.
Shortcuts. Synmit hands the thought to the shortcut you chose, and what happens next is up to that shortcut.
Their own privacy terms cover what you send them.
What Synmit asks your permission for
Synmit asks before it uses Reminders, Calendars, the microphone, speech recognition, the camera, or the badge on its icon (which shows how many thoughts failed to land). It asks to add photos to your library only if you turn on saving the photos you take. Choosing photos from your library uses iOS's own picker, which gives Synmit only the photos you choose. You can change any of these in your iPhone's Settings.
Diagnostic reports
Synmit keeps a few counts on your iPhone: for each destination, how many thoughts landed, failed, or may have arrived. If you turn on Debug mode (Settings → Diagnostics), Synmit records what it does when it sends a thought, for 24 hours. It never records your words, email addresses, cue words, file names, or the names of your lists and calendars.
Nothing is sent automatically. A diagnostic report leaves your iPhone only when you share it yourself, and you see all of it first. It carries no identifier for you or your iPhone, so it can't be traced back to you unless you add your own details when you send it.
What Apple shares with us
If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers (Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements), Apple shares crash reports and usage statistics with us. Apple aggregates them and they don't identify you.
Synmit has no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking code, and we don't sell or share personal information.
This website
synmit.com is hosted by Cloudflare. Like any web server, Cloudflare handles your IP address and browser details to deliver the pages and protect the site from abuse.
We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookies, doesn't follow you across other sites, and gives us totals only: pages viewed, where visitors came from, and their country and kind of device. This website sets no cookies.
Synmit Support
When you raise a request in Synmit Support, or email support@synmit.com or privacy@synmit.com, we receive your email address, your name if you give it, and what you send us, including attachments such as a diagnostic report or a screenshot.
Requests are kept in Jira Service Management, run by Atlassian. Email to synmit.com addresses passes through Cloudflare Email Routing, which only forwards it. We use an AI assistant, Claude by Anthropic, to help read requests and draft replies. A person reads and sends every reply.
We use what you send only to answer your request and improve Synmit, and keep it while it's useful for that. Ask us and we'll delete it.
Cloudflare, Atlassian and Anthropic may store or process this information outside Australia, including in the United States.
Your choices and rights
You can ask what personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing privacy@synmit.com.
Your thoughts are only ever on your own devices, so you control them directly: deleting them in Synmit or in the Files app deletes them.
If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.
Changes to this policy
When this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.