Last updated October 31, 2026.
Itadaki is made by David Oreper. The app has no accounts, ads, analytics or tracking, and I don't collect, sell or share your personal information.
Your recipes, shopping trips, stores, restaurants and settings are stored on your iPhone. The Apple Watch app gets the current shopping list from your iPhone.
If you create or join a household, the household's data is stored in iCloud with Apple's CloudKit, in the iCloud account of the person who created the household. The people you invite can see and change it. Sharing a restaurant or an order with someone works the same way. I can't read any of this data.
When you add items by voice, your speech is recognized on your iPhone. The app doesn't save or send audio.
When you scan a recipe or read one from a photo, the text is read on your device. Photos you attach to items are saved with your data.
When you look up a restaurant, and only if you allow it, the app uses your location to search Apple Maps for nearby places. Once you've saved a restaurant, the Restaurants tab also uses your location to show how far away each one is. Your location stays on your iPhone and is never saved; the app saves only each restaurant's address.
When you import a recipe from a web link, the app downloads that page to read the recipe. Adding an item with Siri goes through Apple's Siri, under Apple's privacy policy.
The app keeps a log of app events on your device to help troubleshoot problems. It leaves your device only if you share it yourself from More → Diagnostics.
Purchases go through Apple with your Apple Account, and I never see your name or payment details. The app asks Apple, on your device, what you've bought, to know whether your plan is active.
If you're in a household, the app also saves a copy of your purchase receipt, which Apple signs, in the household's iCloud data, so the other members' apps can see that the household is covered. The receipt includes which plan you bought, the price, your App Store country, when you bought it and, for a subscription, when it ends, along with Apple's transaction numbers. It doesn't include your name. The other members' apps show only who paid, using the name you go by in the household. When you leave the household, or its creator removes you, the app deletes your receipt from the household's data, and your purchase no longer covers the others. If the delete can't happen right away, the creator's app does it at its next daily check.
The date your free month started is saved on your iPhone and in your iCloud account, so reinstalling the app or moving to a new phone keeps it. In a household, everyone shares the household's free month, so its start date is also saved in the household's iCloud data.
In TestFlight beta versions, testers can send feedback from the app. Feedback includes the text you write, the app version, your device model, a few usage counts (such as how many trips you've finished) and, if you turn on Include diagnostics, the diagnostic log. It's stored in Apple's iCloud, where only I can read it. The App Store version doesn't include this feature.
If you email support, I use your message and address only to reply to you.
Deleting the app removes the data stored on your iPhone and Apple Watch. To leave a household, go to More → Household → Leave household; if you created the household, leaving ends it for everyone. When you leave a household someone else created, the name you went by stays in the household's data, next to the things you added. You can also remove Itadaki's iCloud data in Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage.
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