The short version
- Zero BRYKK servers. All data lives on your device and your iCloud account.
- No data sales. Ever. There's no business model that requires it.
- No tracking. Zero analytics tools, zero third-party code, zero ad networks.
- No accounts. No login screen, no password to create. BRYKK uses your existing iCloud account automatically.
- Translation is on-device. Voice never leaves your phone.
- Leave anytime. Tap Leave Family and your location vanishes from your family's maps within seconds.
Where your data lives
BRYKK uses Apple's CloudKit as its only backend. That's the same secure storage Apple uses for your iMessages, photos, and Find My data. BRYKK has no servers of its own — no databases, no admin tools, no dashboards. Your family code acts as the lock — anyone in your family with the code can see the data, nobody else can.
- Family member locations → CloudKit, filtered by family code
- Saved places → CloudKit (per-user records)
- Chat messages → CloudKit, filtered by family code
- Medical card → iCloud Keychain on YOUR devices only — never shared
- Trip history → Local Keychain + optional CloudKit sync for premium users
- Settings, preferences, schedules → Keychain on your devices
What BRYKK (the company) can see
The honest answer: almost nothing about you personally, and only what Apple gives every iOS developer in aggregate. Here's the full list:
- Total app downloads — a number, not who downloaded it
- Country breakdown — how many users in the US vs. UK vs. Germany, etc. No individual user tied to any country
- Device type breakdown — how many iPhone 15s vs. iPhone 12s, how many iPads, how many Apple Watches
- iOS version breakdown — how many people on iOS 17 vs 18 vs 19
- App version adoption — how many users updated to the latest BRYKK release
- Anonymous crash reports — when BRYKK crashes, Apple sends us the stack trace with no user identity attached. Used to fix bugs.
That's it. All of it comes from Apple's App Store Connect dashboard, the same one every iOS developer uses. None of it is tied to a person, a family, a location, a chat message, or anything you do inside the app.
What Apple can see
Apple stores your CloudKit records on their servers. They have technical access to CloudKit content, though Apple's own privacy policy prohibits them from reading it for ads or sales. Apple's iMessage and Find My use the same infrastructure. If you trust Apple's iCloud for your photos, you can trust it for BRYKK.
What we DO NOT do
- No analytics tools (Mixpanel, Amplitude, Firebase — none of them)
- No ad networks (Facebook, Google Ads — none)
- No crash-reporting services that send data off your phone (we use Apple's built-in tools, which stay on-device)
- No data brokers
- No location data sales
- No insurance company partnerships
- No “anonymized” data sharing (because anonymized location data isn't actually anonymous)
Translation privacy
BRYKK's translation runs entirely on your device using Apple's Translation framework. Voice audio is never transmitted, never recorded, never logged. The translated text never leaves your phone unless you choose to send it as a chat message.
This is rare. Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, and most other translation apps send your voice to cloud servers. BRYKK is one of the few that's truly offline — which matters when you're translating medical info or sensitive conversations.
If you want to leave
Tap Settings → Family → Leave Family. Your UserLocation record is deleted from CloudKit immediately. Other family members will see you disappear from their maps within seconds. Your chat messages remain (because they belong to the conversation, not just you), but no new data is shared. If you want to delete the chat messages too, you can ask any current family member to remove you and clear the chat.
You can rejoin anytime with the family code — your local data (saved places, trip history, settings) stays on your device.