Privacy

Effective August 4, 2026

Refrain is built so that this page can stay short. There is no Refrain server, no Refrain account, and no analytics. We could not read your highlights if we wanted to — and we don't want to.

What Refrain collects

Nothing. Refrain has no server-side service and collects no personal data, usage data, or telemetry of any kind.

Where your library lives

Your books, passages, and notes are stored on your device. If you're signed in to iCloud, they sync between your devices through your own iCloud account, in a private database that only your devices can read. Apple's handling of iCloud data is described in Apple's privacy policy. If you're not signed in to iCloud, everything simply stays local.

Signing in to Amazon

To sync your Kindle highlights, Refrain opens Amazon's own sign-in page in a web view inside the app. Your Amazon credentials go to Amazon and nowhere else — Refrain never sees, stores, or transmits them. The app then reads your highlights from read.amazon.com the same way your browser would, directly from your device.

On-device intelligence

Search, rhymes, and threads are computed entirely on your device using a bundled model. No passage, note, or any derivative of them is ever sent anywhere for processing.

The one request Refrain makes to us

When you sync, the app may download a small configuration file from this site (getrefrain.app/scraper-config.json) that tells it how to read Amazon's current page layout. This is a plain file download: no user data, identifiers, or telemetry are sent with it, and we keep no logs of it.

Purchases

The one-time unlock is processed by Apple through the App Store. Refrain receives no payment details and keeps no purchase records beyond the entitlement Apple provides to your device.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date. Given how Refrain is built, there isn't much room for it to change.