We collect nothing

Morwen is an independent app, made and published by the developer behind turret.dev. It has no account, no analytics and no advertising, and no servers of its own. Nothing you type, say, attach or make is sent to us, and we never see it.

What stays on your device

Your chats, your settings, your library of documents, the pictures you make and any models you download are kept on your device. Keys and sign-ins for services you add are kept in the Keychain, and reach your other devices only if you use iCloud Keychain.

What leaves your device, and where it goes

When you send a message, it goes to the model you chose and nowhere else:

• A model on the device: nothing leaves it.
• A model server of your own, such as Ollama or LM Studio on your computer: your message goes to that computer.
• A cloud service you added: your message, and anything you attach, goes to that service under your own account or key, and that service's privacy policy applies. Morwen names the service and asks you before the first message goes to it.

Some things you ask for reach other services, sent straight from your device:

• Web searches go to the search service you set up, or, if you set none up, to public search pages (DuckDuckGo, Bing or Google News). Web pages Morwen reads for you are opened from your device, as your browser would open them.
• Places and journeys are looked up with Apple Maps. The model is given the street and town, never your exact position.
• Connectors you switch on, such as a notes or tasks service, receive what Morwen sends them when you ask it to use them, under your own sign-in. Morwen shows what will be sent before anything is changed.
• Pictures made in the cloud, if you choose that, are made by Hugging Face from your description.
• Model downloads come from Hugging Face, from Google's and Apple's own repositories. Hugging Face sees the download request as any website would.

Permissions

Morwen asks for each of these when it first needs it, and you can turn any of them off in the Settings app:

• Microphone and speech recognition, to hear you when you dictate or use voice mode, and for “Hey Morwen” if you turn it on. Speech is turned into text on the device.
• Calendars and reminders, when you ask what's on or ask it to add something.
• Location, when you ask about places nearby, journeys or the weather.
• Local network, to reach model servers and other devices of your own at home.
• Alarms, to set timers and alarms you ask for.
• Face ID, if you turn on the lock.
• Camera, only to scan a code when adding a device to a family.
• Photos, only to save a picture when you choose Save Image. Morwen can't see your library.

Children

Morwen is not directed at children. Family profiles, if you use them, are set up by a parent on the device, and nothing about them is sent to us.

Your rights

Because we hold no information about you, there is nothing for us to give you, correct or delete. To remove everything Morwen keeps, delete the app. Information you sent to a cloud service is held by that service, under its own policy.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be on this page, with its date.

Contact

Questions about privacy: morwen@turret.dev.