Last updated: 30 August 2026
Lardr is built on a simple idea: your recipes are yours. This policy explains exactly what data the app handles and where it goes.
Without a subscription, Lardr has no account and sends nothing anywhere. Your recipes, meal plans and shopping lists live on your device and — if you choose — in a folder you control. There is nothing for us to see.
Lardr Pro adds optional cloud features — syncing across your devices, sharing with one other person, and AI recipe import. Those need an account and store your recipe data on our behalf. Everything below explains that in detail.
Your recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and saved photos are stored locally on your iPhone using Apple's on-device database (SwiftData). This is true whether or not you subscribe.
You may also choose a folder — your iPhone's Files storage, iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or any other location you pick — where Lardr writes a copy of each recipe as plain text (Markdown, Cooklang, or .txt). That folder belongs to you. Lardr writes to it on your behalf; the data never passes through us. This keeps working if you cancel Pro, or delete the app entirely.
Lardr Pro is optional. If you never subscribe, none of this section applies to you.
Pro requires an account, created with Sign in with Apple. We receive an anonymous user identifier from Apple, and an email address — which is a private relay address if you chose "Hide My Email". We use it only to identify your account. We do not email you marketing.
So your data can reach your other devices, Pro stores the following on servers we operate (using Supabase, hosted in Tokyo, Japan):
This data is protected by row-level security rules so that only your account — and, if you use a household, the one person you share it with — can read or write it. We do not sell it, we do not analyse it, and we do not use it to train anything.
A Household lets you share one recipe library, meal plan and shopping list with one other person. If you create or join a household, the recipes, plans and shopping items covered by it become visible to — and editable by — the other member. Photos attached to shared recipes are shared too. Your quick list stays private to you.
If you leave a household, the sharing stops: their content is removed from your device, and yours from theirs. Content each of you created remains owned by whoever made it.
Lardr can read a recipe from a photo or a web link. How that works depends on how you use it:
Anthropic does not train its models on data submitted through its API.
When you paste a recipe link, or share a post to Lardr from another app, Lardr fetches that public web page from your device in order to read the recipe from it. This is the same thing your web browser would do when you open the link. The page's address is used only to fetch it and is saved with the recipe so you can return to the source.
Subscriptions are purchased through Apple. Apple handles your payment; we never see your payment details. We use RevenueCat to check whether your subscription is active — it receives your Lardr account identifier and your subscription status, and nothing else.
If you enable Notion sync, you provide your own Notion integration token. Lardr reads recipes from the Notion database you choose, on your behalf, and adds new ones to your collection. It never writes back to Notion.
Notion's privacy policy: notion.so/privacy
Any credentials you enter yourself — an Anthropic API key, a Notion token — are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device only. They are marked device-only, which means Lardr never transmits them off your device and they are never synced through iCloud Keychain. You can remove them at any time in Settings.
You are always in control:
You can also email us to request deletion, and we will action it.
Lardr contains no analytics, no crash-reporting SDKs, no advertising, and no third-party tracking of any kind. We do not build a profile of you, and nothing tracks you across other apps or websites.
Lardr is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we will delete it.
If this policy changes, the "last updated" date above will change with it. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.
Questions about privacy, a data request, or about Lardr in general? Email lincolnljt@gmail.com.