Two things on one page: the privacy policy first, because it is the longer question, and the Impressum after it.
Last updated: 18 August 2026
Memora is a travel journal that keeps what you write on your own phone. There is no account to create, no server of ours holding your journal, and no analytics. One feature is different, and only if you start it yourself: a shared photo album puts photos into iCloud so the people you invite can see them. This page says exactly what that means, and where the other few exceptions are.
Who is responsible for it, and how to reach them, is in the Impressum below.
Everything you put into Memora is written to your device, in the app’s own storage:
Memora has no way to read any of it. There is no account, and nothing is uploaded — with one exception, which you switch on yourself and which is described under Shared photo albums below.
If you back up your iPhone — to iCloud or to a computer — that backup includes Memora’s data, because it sits in the app’s Documents folder like any other app’s. That backup is yours, made under your own Apple Account, and Memora has no access to it.
Four things, all of them handled by Apple’s own services, and none of them carrying your memos or reflections.
Shared photo albums. If you start one, the photos you add to it go to Apple’s iCloud, along with the trip’s title and dates and the title, place and date of the moments you shared. See the section below.
Place names. When the photo scan finds a place, its coordinate is sent to Apple’s geocoding service to be turned into a name — “Kyoto”, “Iceland”. When you type a place into the location picker, what you type is sent to Apple’s search service, which suggests places as you write. A moment saved without a connection is looked up again later so it can take its place on the globe. What travels is a coordinate or the words you typed. Apple’s handling of those requests is covered by Apple’s own privacy policy.
Purchases. Memora Plus is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and tells Memora only whether the purchase is active. Memora never sees your payment details, and does not keep a customer record of any kind.
That is the whole of it. There is no analytics, no advertising, no tracking, no crash reporting, and no third-party SDK of any kind in the app.
A shared album is off until you start one, and you start it on a single trip. Nothing about your other trips is affected. Starting one needs Memora Plus; joining one that someone else started does not.
What goes up. The photos you add to the album, the trip’s title and dates, and the title, place and date of the moments you chose to share. Photos are reduced to 2048 pixels along their longer edge before they leave, and the coordinate the camera wrote into them is removed. If the album’s owner turns on “keep originals”, full-resolution copies go up as well — still without that coordinate.
What never goes up, even for a shared trip. Reflections. Voice memos and their transcripts. Tags. Your notes. Your favourites. The order you arranged your photos in. Any photo you did not add to the album. These are kept in a separate store on your device that the sharing code cannot reach, so it is not a matter of us remembering to leave them out.
Where it goes. Into Apple’s iCloud, in the private storage of whoever started the album, using CloudKit. It does not pass through any server of ours, because we do not have one, and we cannot read it: a developer has no access to the contents of a user’s private or shared iCloud database. Apple’s handling is covered by Apple’s own privacy policy. The storage counts against the album owner’s iCloud allowance.
Who can see it. Whoever opens the link. The link is not tied to a particular person, so it can be forwarded — treat it the way you would treat the album itself. The owner can see everyone who has joined and can remove them.
Photos you receive. They are shown inside Memora. They are written into your own Photos library only when you save one yourself, and never automatically.
Ending it. The owner can end the album, which removes it from iCloud for everyone. Each participant can leave one. In both cases everyone keeps their own trip, their own moments, everything they wrote, and any photo they had saved to their Photos library. Deleting your local trip does not end the album for anyone else, and does not delete anything of theirs.
It never asks where you are. Memora has no location permission and never reads your device’s position. The places on your globe come from what your photos already carry, and from what you type in yourself.
It never sends your voice anywhere. Speech recognition runs on your phone, and is deliberately restricted to on-device recognition — a memo in a language your phone cannot handle locally is simply left as a recording rather than sent away to be transcribed. The clean-up that punctuates a transcript also runs on your phone, using Apple Intelligence, and only on devices that support it.
It never uploads your photos on its own. Reading your photo library needs your permission, and only the photos you decide to keep are copied into Memora. The originals stay in your library, untouched. Photos leave this device in one case only: when you add them to a shared album yourself.
| What it is used for | |
|---|---|
| Photos | Reading when and where your pictures were taken, so past trips can be found, and copying in the ones you keep |
| Microphone | Recording voice memos |
| Speech recognition | Turning those recordings into text on this device |
| Notifications | The evening reminder, if you turn one on, and news from a shared album you are part of |
Each is asked for at the moment the feature that needs it is first used, and each can be withdrawn at any time in iOS Settings.
Take it with you. Settings → Export & backup writes your entire journal to a single file and hands it to you. Where it goes from there is your choice. Photos from a shared album are not included — they are not all yours to pass on.
Delete it. Settings → Delete everything removes the journal — records, photos and recordings — from the device. If you started a shared album, end it separately: it lives in iCloud and other people are in it, so deleting your own copy is not enough to remove it. Deleting the app has the same effect on what is on the device.
Rights under the GDPR. Since we never receive your journal, we hold nothing about you to give you a copy of, correct or delete — and that stays true for shared albums, whose contents sit in the album owner’s own iCloud storage and are unreadable to us. If you write to the address in the Impressum below, the honest answer will almost always be that there is nothing on our side. You may complain to your data protection authority; in Austria that is the Datenschutzbehörde.
Memora is not directed at children and collects nothing about anyone.
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. A change that affects what leaves your device would be announced in the app before it takes effect.
Information according to § 5 ECG (Austria) and § 5 DDG (Germany). These are also the details meant by “we” and “us” in the privacy policy above.
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Memora is an offline-first travel journal for iPhone. The Satellite globe is NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation (August 2004, with topography and bathymetry), by Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatory. Used with acknowledgement.