Privacy Policy

Effective November 8, 2026

Dash is a recipe app made by Adelphian Labs LLC (“we”). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.

Your recipes, meal plans, grocery lists and pantry stay on your device. We don’t have a copy.
Dash has no accounts, ads, analytics or tracking, and we don’t sell data.
Scanning recipes from photos happens on your device.
The optional Dash AI features send only what each feature needs, only when you use it, and only after you agree.

Information that stays on your device

Everything you keep in Dash is stored on your device: recipes and their photos, categories, ratings, notes, meal plans, grocery lists, pantry items, kitchen timers and settings. We don’t operate servers that store this information. It’s included in your device’s backups (such as iCloud Backup) according to your Apple settings. Deleting Dash deletes it. You can export all of your recipes from Settings at any time.

Importing recipes

Links and the share sheet. When you import a recipe from a web page, Dash reads that page directly from the website, the way your browser would. When you share a page from Safari, Dash reads the page you shared. The website sees a normal request from your device.
Recipe library files. Files you import from another recipe app are read on your device.
Pages without recipe data. If a page doesn’t describe its recipe in a standard format, Dash reads the recipe from the page’s text on your device, using built-in rules or Apple Intelligence.

Scanning recipes and Apple Intelligence

Scan a Recipe reads photos and screenshots on your device, using Apple’s text recognition and, where available, Apple Intelligence. Your photos aren’t uploaded. On devices where it’s available, some Apple Intelligence requests may run on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, which Apple designed so that your data is used only for your request and isn’t stored or made accessible to Apple. Dash tells you on the review screen when a recipe was read this way. Apple’s handling of this data is described in Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Dash AI (optional subscription)

Dash AI adds pantry scanning from photos, recipe suggestions and meal planning. These features use an AI model from OpenAI (Luna), reached through OpenRouter, an AI service provider. Before you use Dash AI the first time, Dash explains what’s shared and asks for your agreement. You can withdraw it in Settings.

What’s sent, and when

Only when you use a Dash AI feature, Dash sends what that feature needs:

Pantry scanning: the photos you take or choose, and the names of items already in your pantry.
Recipe suggestions: your pantry items, the meal types and notes you enter, and the names of recipes you’ve saved or already been shown, so suggestions don’t repeat them. When you ask for recipes from the web, the AI model searches the web to find them.
Meal planning: your saved recipes’ names, categories, main ingredients, ratings and when you last cooked them, your pantry items, and the preferences you enter.

Nothing is sent in the background, and your name, email address and location are never sent.

How it travels

Requests go to a server we run on Cloudflare. It checks that your Dash AI subscription is active, then passes the request to OpenRouter, which passes it to OpenAI. Requests carry an anonymous identifier derived from your subscription, not your name or Apple Account.

Our server doesn’t store the content of your requests or the AI’s answers. To enforce the monthly allowance, it records how much Dash AI you’ve used each month, keyed to an anonymous identifier. That record is deleted after 40 days.
Cloudflare keeps short-lived technical logs of requests to our server (such as the time, status and approximate region) for a few days to keep it running and secure. See Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.
OpenRouter and OpenAI process requests under their own policies: OpenRouter’s Privacy Policy and OpenAI’s Privacy Policy.

Subscriptions and payments

Dash AI is sold through Apple. We never see your payment details. Apple gives the app a signed record of your subscription, which our server checks to confirm it’s active. Apple’s handling of purchases is described in Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Siri and Shortcuts

Dash’s Siri and Shortcuts actions, such as adding a recipe to your grocery list, run on your device. Siri itself is provided by Apple under Apple’s privacy terms.

Children

Dash isn’t directed at children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we change how Dash handles your information, for example when optional sync between devices arrives, we’ll update this page and its effective date before the change takes effect.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email support@rjsamson.org.