Privacy and security

What stays on my iPhone, and what’s on the server?

In the app you can always see which data stays only on your device and which is on our server.

You’ll find the overview under You › gear › Privacy & Security › Your Data. The same page opens under You › Cards › Who Sees What?.

Only on your iPhone

• Your network: people, notes, relationships, history and Keep in Touch. Encrypted and not in your iCloud backup.
• What you say: speech recognition runs on your iPhone. Recordings aren’t stored.
• Nodi: answers right on your iPhone, with no AI service in the cloud.
• Quick Capture: only your iPhone reads screenshots. Only what you add is saved.
• Your chat history.
• Your network strength.

End-to-end encrypted

• Chats and calls: only you and the others in the chat or call can read and hear them. See Encryption.
• Exchanging cards with Hold Together: directly from iPhone to iPhone. Our server then records the connection.

On the server

• Your card with the photos and videos you show on it.
• Requests, connections and introductions.
• What chats and notifications need, such as keys and push tokens. Messages are only stored there encrypted until they’re delivered, files until the message expires, each for at most 30 days.
• Your account: email address or sign-in with Apple or Google, age bracket and your agreement to the terms.
• Communities: posts are encrypted in transit and on the server, but not end-to-end.

If you add a place sticker in the camera, your iPhone looks up the place name through Apple’s map service.

Our server is in the EU. Nodbase has no tracking, no advertising and no analytics tools. We only count totals, such as how many accounts are active.

All details are in the Privacy Policy.

Last checked: 11 November 2026