Recipe Keeper Privacy Policy

Updated 3 October 2026. Recipe Keeper is provided by Smart Automation SRL.

Recipes on your device

Your saved recipes, selected images, cookbooks, tags, meal plans, shopping list and onboarding preferences are stored on your device. You can edit or delete your content in the app. Removing the app removes its local app data, subject to your Apple device backup settings. Photo text recognition runs on your device. Website imports contact the website you choose.

Optional third-party AI processing

Before an AI import, the app asks you to allow processing. The input you choose may include a public social-video link, video, extracted audio, ten sampled frames, recipe text and a transcript. OpenAI processes the audio to transcribe it and the transcript and frames to produce ingredients, steps and a selected recipe image. If you separately request an illustration, the recipe text is sent to OpenAI to generate that illustration. Do not import personal or sensitive content you do not have permission to share.

Your iPhone downloads the public video, extracts audio and prepares ten frames locally. After you allow the import, it sends the audio, frames, transcript or recipe text through Smart Automation’s existing Shortsblink LLM gateway to OpenAI. Recipe Keeper does not need a service running on your Mac. The provider credential stays on the gateway; the app uses its own revocable gateway credential.

Gateway logging and retention

The gateway records requests and responses in encrypted logs with a 90-day expiry for troubleshooting and usage monitoring. Audio request bodies and transcription response text are redacted from those logs. Recipe-generation requests and responses can include sampled frames, transcripts, recipe text and generated results, subject to log size limits. It also records a randomly generated installation identifier, app identifier/version, requested and actual provider/model, language, country/region, build environment and usage/cost information. These records are linked to the app installation identifier; the app does not send your name, social-media password or Apple account credentials. Contact our support address below to request deletion of gateway records, providing your installation identifier if available. Do not send private media in a deletion request.

OpenAI API inputs are not used to train models by default. Provider abuse-monitoring logs may retain inputs and outputs for up to 30 days, with exceptions described in OpenAI's API data controls. Recipe generation requests disable response storage. Temporary media created by the on-device pipeline is removed when processing finishes.

Optional referral program

If you create an invite code or apply a friend’s code, Recipe Keeper sends your random installation identifier and referral code to Smart Automation’s Shortsblink service. The service stores the code, referral relationship and reward receipts to verify eligibility, prevent duplicate rewards and add three imports to each eligible installation. No contacts, social-media account details or videos are sent for referrals. Sharing alone does not earn imports. Each installation may redeem one friend’s code; self-referrals and referral loops are not eligible. Referral records remain while needed to honor unused rewards and prevent repeat redemption. Contact support to request deletion; deleting referral records may remove unclaimed rewards.

Purchases and external services

Apple handles subscription billing. The app checks Apple subscription entitlement status; we do not receive your payment card details. Opening Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X or an external website is subject to that service's policies. Recipe Keeper does not require a social-media password or import private account cookies.

Support and your choices

You may decline AI processing and use manual entry or the free Discover recipes. Contact imosnoi@smartaitomation.com with privacy requests. Support email contains the information you choose to send; please avoid sending private videos, passwords or payment information. We retain support correspondence only as needed to respond and meet legal obligations. Recipe Keeper is not directed at children.