Why your catalogue stays on your phone
A list of what you own, what it's worth and where it's kept is nobody else's business. Here's exactly what Anilla does with it.
A cigar collection catalogue is, among other things, an inventory of valuable things in your home. It lists what you own, what you think it's worth and which cupboard it's in. That's not data an app needs to send anywhere, so Anilla doesn't.
What stays on your iPhone
- Your humidors, shelves, boxes, singles and counts
- Box codes, dates and ageing windows
- Values and their sources
- Tasting notes, authenticity checks and climate readings
- Your photos. When you photograph a stamp, the text is read on the device by Apple's Vision framework, and the image isn't uploaded.
There's no account and no sign-in. Notifications, such as climate alerts and the trial reminder, are scheduled on the phone itself.
The one thing that leaves the phone
Subscriptions need a record somewhere. Apple processes every purchase, and we never see payment details. To check and restore Anilla Pro, the app sends the purchase history (which plan, when it started and renews, trial and refund status) to RevenueCat, our subscription provider, under a random ID created on your phone. That ID isn't linked to your name, your email or your Apple Account, and RevenueCat receives nothing from your catalogue. The App Store privacy label says the same: purchase history, not linked to you, not used for tracking.
What we don't do
- No advertising and no advertising identifiers
- No third-party analytics inside the app
- No tracking across other apps or websites
- No selling of data, ever
If we ever add product analytics, it will be privacy-friendly and anonymous, and we'll update the privacy notice and the App Store privacy details before it ships.
The trade-off, and how to handle it
Keeping everything on the phone means a lost or wiped phone takes the catalogue with it, unless you've kept a backup. So Anilla makes backups easy: export a JSON backup or a CSV whenever you like, save it somewhere you trust, and restore it on a new phone. Restoring adds anything missing and never overwrites what's there. An update to the app will never touch your data.
That's the deal: your records, on your phone, in formats you can take anywhere.