Hone
Privacy
Last updated October 4, 2026
Hone makes small, focused apps for people who work with their hands. This page explains what happens to your information in each Hone app listed below. The short version: there’s nothing to sign up for, nothing tracks you, and your work stays yours.
- No accounts. You never create a Hone login.
- No advertising and no tracking. Hone apps contain no ad networks, no analytics tools, and no third-party tracking. We don’t sell or share personal information.
- Your work lives on your device and in your own iCloud. Hone can’t see it.
- Apple handles every purchase. We never see your payment details.
Your iCloud
When iCloud is on, Hone apps sync your work through your private iCloud database. It is stored in your iCloud account under Apple’s privacy protections, and Hone has no access to it. You can delete it in your device’s iCloud storage settings, or by deleting it inside the app.
On your device
Text recognition (reading a cookbook page or a glaze label), speech recognition, and Apple Intelligence features run on your device using Apple’s built-in frameworks. Hone doesn’t receive what they process.
Purchases
Apple processes all purchases. Apple tells the app which purchases belong to your Apple Account so it can unlock them. We don’t receive your name, email address, or payment information.
Ladle
What Ladle keeps
Your recipes, photos, scanned pages, notes, folders, meal plans, and grocery lists, on your device and in your iCloud.
Importing from a website
When you import a recipe from a website, Ladle downloads that page directly from the website, the same way a browser would. The website sees an ordinary visit from your device, including your IP address, and its own privacy policy applies. Ladle doesn’t send that page to Hone.
Sharing to Ladle
When you share a page to Ladle from Safari or another app, Ladle’s share extension keeps a copy on your device until Ladle opens it.
Scanning
The camera and text recognition run on your device. The pages you scan are saved with the recipe on your device and in your iCloud. Nothing is uploaded to Hone.
Discover
Ladle downloads the Discover list of trending recipes from Hone’s server. When you save a recipe you imported from a website, Ladle also sends Hone’s server that recipe’s web address, title, image address, and website name, so Discover can show what Ladle cooks are saving. That is all it sends: no name, account, device identifier, notes, or other recipes. Recipes you scan, paste, or type yourself are never sent.
Hone’s server runs on Cloudflare, which receives these requests along with your device’s IP address, as with any internet connection. Reports are used only to count what’s trending in Discover. To count each device once a day, the server keeps a scrambled code made from the IP address and the recipe, using a key that changes every day; the code and the key are deleted after two days, and the address itself is never stored. Because they don’t identify anyone, we can’t find or delete an individual person’s reports.
To stop sending reports, turn off Settings › Contribute to Discover in Ladle.
Send to Mise
If Mise is installed, Send to Mise hands the recipe to Mise on the same device. Nothing goes over the internet.
Witness
What Witness keeps
Your pieces, Sketchbook pages, photos, measurements, and notes, on your device and in your iCloud.
Recipes you send
A recipe you send goes only to the person you send it to, through Messages, AirDrop, or Mail, and includes the sender name you typed. Hone never sees it.
Studio walls
Viewing or joining a studio sends nothing about you. If you publish a studio wall with Studio Editor, what you publish—the studio’s name, clay bodies, glazes, and test-tile photos—is stored in Witness’s public iCloud database so studio members can see it. Anyone with your studio’s code can view it, and Hone can read it. To remove a published studio wall, contact us.
Scales
A Bluetooth scale connects directly to your device. Its readings stay on your device and in your iCloud.
Tare
What Tare keeps
Your saved conversions, favorites, and custom ingredients, on your device and in your iCloud. Your settings stay on your device.
Converting
Every conversion is worked out on your device, and Tare works offline. It doesn’t send what you convert to Hone or to anyone else.
Siri, widgets, and Apple Watch
Siri and Shortcuts run Tare’s conversions on your device. Apple handles what you say to Siri under its own privacy policy. The widget and the Apple Watch app work on your devices and send nothing to Hone.
Copy
Copy puts a conversion on your clipboard when you tap it. Tare never reads your clipboard.
If you bought Convert Simple
To include Pro for people who bought Convert Simple, Tare asks Apple, from your device, when you first downloaded the app and which version it was. Apple’s answer doesn’t include your name or email address, and Tare doesn’t send it to Hone.
Children
Hone apps aren’t directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children.
Your choices
- Export your work from inside each app at any time.
- Delete your work in the app, or delete the app’s data from iCloud.
- Turn off anything an app sends, using the settings described above.
Changes
If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date at the top. If a change affects what an app sends off your device, we’ll also say so in that app’s release notes.
Contact
Questions or requests: support at hone dot build