What the app stores, and where
Your library is a folder you choose. Each article has its own folder with article.md, source.md, a sources folder for the files you brought in, images, audio, versions and comments.json. Your voices, templates and prompts are plain files in the same library. You can open, copy, back up or delete any of it yourself.
The app's settings are kept in its macOS preferences. Your API keys and your Substack session are stored only in the macOS Keychain. None of this is sent to us.
The services it can use
In My Words works with AI and publishing services using your own keys and accounts. It only uses the ones you set up, for the features you use:
- OpenAI, or another OpenAI-compatible server you choose (which can be one running on your own Mac): for writing, images and speech.
- Anthropic: for writing.
- ElevenLabs: for speech, and to list your ElevenLabs voices.
- Substack: to create drafts in your account.
Each provider handles what you send under its own terms and privacy policy. You have an account with them; we don't see it and aren't party to it.
What is sent to a model
Only the text needed for the job you asked for: for a first draft, that's your source files, the template, the voice and your direction; for other jobs, the draft and whatever that job needs. For an image, the prompt and the voice's image style. For audio, the article's title and text.
Comments and highlights are never sent to a model, unless a prompt you wrote yourself asks for them.
When it connects without you pressing a button
Most connections happen only when you press something. There are three exceptions, and each uses a key or account you've added:
- At launch, if you have an ElevenLabs key, it refreshes your list of ElevenLabs voices.
- Opening Settings or the Welcome Guide checks each stored key by asking that provider for its list of models.
- Opening the Publish sheet refreshes your Substack account.
Publishing
Substack. You sign in on substack.com inside a private web view in the app. The app never sees your password; it keeps only the session cookie, in the Keychain. Publishing creates a draft in your Substack account, and your images, video and audio are uploaded to Substack's storage. Images in the article that live elsewhere on the web are downloaded first so they can be uploaded. Nothing is published until you publish it on Substack.
LinkedIn. There is no LinkedIn connection. The app copies your post and opens linkedin.com in your browser, for you to paste.
Video blocks. If you add a YouTube video to an article, its thumbnail is loaded from YouTube's image server (i.ytimg.com).
What the app doesn't do
In My Words has no account or sign-in of its own, no adverts, no analytics, no telemetry and no crash reporting, and no third-party code that collects data. It doesn't ask for your microphone or camera. It sends nothing to us.
The app is not sandboxed by macOS. It saves your work in the library folder you chose, and saves exports wherever you tell it to.
Children
In My Words collects no data from anyone, including children. The AI providers set their own age requirements for their accounts.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Who we are
In My Words is published by ICE32 Limited, the company behind Rarely Impossible. ICE32 Limited is registered in England and Wales (company number 07046272). Registered office: Platinum House, 23 Hinton Road, Bournemouth, BH1 2EF, United Kingdom.
Contact
Questions: [email protected].
This policy sits alongside the Rarely Impossible privacy policy and terms of use, which cover all our apps, including the section on AI features and your own API keys.