Privacy Policy for drop.

Effective date: May 24, 2026

drop. is designed as a private, local-first place to save links, notes, images, and ideas.

Data Stored by the App

drop. stores saved drops, collections, tags, notes, URLs, and preview images on your device using Apple local storage. The app does not require a drop. account.

If iCloud is available, drop. uses Apple's CloudKit service to sync your library through your Apple account and to support shared collections. Shared collection participants can access the collection data you choose to share with them.

Data Collection

drop. does not sell personal data and does not use advertising or tracking SDKs.

Optional features may send data to third-party, Apple, or drop.-operated services as described below.

When you use TestFlight, Apple may collect crash logs, diagnostics, and feedback according to Apple's TestFlight and App Store policies.

Network Access

For saved links, drop. may ask iOS to fetch link preview metadata, such as a page title or image, from the linked website. drop. may also fetch readable text from saved links so those drops can be searched and summarized on device. Those requests are made by the app on your device to the relevant website.

Local AI Search

drop. indexes saved drop titles, notes, tags, collections, URLs, link text when available, and text recognized from saved images. Local AI search uses this on-device index and, when available, Apple's on-device Foundation Models.

Voice Input

If you choose voice input in Chat, drop. uses the microphone and Apple's Speech framework to transcribe your speech into a draft message. Recognition runs on device when supported; otherwise Apple may process the audio according to its speech recognition policies. drop. does not save the recording.

Pro Chat

Pro Chat is available to active Pro subscribers. When you use Pro Chat, drop. sends your message and selected drop snippets through drop.'s AI proxy to OpenRouter so OpenRouter can generate a response. Those snippets may include drop titles, source URLs or domains, collection names, tags, saved dates, summaries, notes, and excerpts from saved links or images.

Your full library is not uploaded for a Pro Chat request. Users do not provide an OpenRouter API key. Drop requests are restricted to model-provider endpoints that do not collect request content, and OpenRouter prompt logging is disabled. AIProxy retains an anonymous device identifier, originating IP address, response status, and request-volume metadata to provide rate limiting, abuse prevention, and service diagnostics; it does not store successful prompt or response content.

Retention and Deletion

Drops remain on your device and, when iCloud sync is active, in your iCloud account until you delete them or disable or remove the relevant storage. Deleting a drop removes it from the app's local library and from synced CloudKit data as iCloud processes the change. Pro Chat requests are not a backup of your library.

Share Extension

The share extension saves pending drops through the app group container shared between the extension and the main app. That handoff stays on device.

Contact

For privacy questions, email [email protected].