Everything stays on your iPhone. Your cat’s recordings, videos, photos, profile and plans are stored only on your device.
Sounds are analysed on the device. Mewsy uses Apple’s built-in sound analysis. No audio is uploaded anywhere.
No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Mewsy has no servers and contains no third-party SDKs.
You decide what to share. Nothing leaves the app unless you share it yourself.
Mewsy is an iOS app for cat owners, developed by an independent developer based in Ukraine (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information the app handles and how. It applies to the Mewsy app and to this website.
Mewsy’s translations are playful suggestions based on how a sound is shaped. They are entertainment, not a literal translation of what your cat means, and not veterinary advice.
To work, the app keeps the following in its private storage on your iPhone. We never receive any of it.
Cat profile: name, photo, approximate age or birthday, boy or girl
Personalising the app and keeping each cat’s history separate
Audio recordings and round videos you make in Chat
Playing them back, translating them, adding them to your cat’s dictionary and making share cards
Analysis results: whether a cat was heard, a small numeric summary of the sound (length, pitch, rhythm), the situation Mewsy picked and any correction you made
Choosing the reply and learning how your own cat sounds
Favourites and your cat’s reactions to sounds
Showing the sounds your cat liked
Care plans, checkmarks, bookmarks, reading status and reminder times
The Care tab and optional reminders
App settings such as volume and haptics
Remembering your preferences
If an audio recording contains a person or no cat at all, Mewsy discards it straight away. A round video without a cat sound is kept, because it’s your moment, but it gets no translation.
Mewsy asks for a permission only when you first use the feature that needs it. You can change any of them later in iOS Settings.
Microphone: to record your cat’s meows and purrs.
Camera: to film short round videos of your cat.
Photos (choosing a photo): Mewsy uses the iOS photo picker, so it only ever sees the one photo you pick for your cat. It has no access to the rest of your library.
Photos (saving): only when you choose to save a story card or video to Photos.
Notifications: only if you turn on care reminders. These are local notifications scheduled on your device, not sent from a server.
After you record, Mewsy runs Apple’s built-in SoundAnalysis classifier and its own small calculations (length, rhythm and pitch of the sound) entirely on your iPhone. They detect whether a sound is a meow, a purr or a human voice. They do not identify people or recognise words, and they do not create a voiceprint.
No audio, video or analysis result is sent to us or to any other service.
We don’t require or offer an account, and we don’t ask for your name, e-mail or phone number.
We don’t use analytics, advertising, attribution or tracking tools, and we don’t track you across other apps or websites.
We don’t sell, rent or share personal information. We have none to share.
We don’t run servers that store your data.
When you tap Share, Mewsy prepares the card, video or text on your device and hands it to the iOS share sheet. What happens next depends on the app you choose (for example Messages or Instagram), and that app’s own privacy policy applies. Share files are kept in temporary storage, which iOS clears automatically.
Articles in the Care tab link to their sources. Tapping a link opens that website in your browser, where the website’s own privacy policy applies.
Backups: if iCloud Backup or a computer backup is turned on, iOS may include Mewsy’s data in your device backup. That backup is handled by Apple under Apple’s Privacy Policy.
Ratings: Mewsy may occasionally show Apple’s standard “Rate this app” prompt. Apple handles it, and we see only public App Store ratings and reviews.
Crash reports: if you have chosen to share analytics with app developers in iOS Settings, Apple may send us anonymous crash and performance reports. They contain no recordings, photos or profile details.
Your data sits in Mewsy’s private storage on your device. iOS protects it with the app sandbox and your device passcode.
It stays there until you remove it:
You can delete individual moments, recordings, videos, sounds and care plans inside the app.
Deleting the Mewsy app removes all of its data from your device. Copies in older device backups are managed by your backup settings.
Mewsy is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under 13. The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.
Depending on where you live, laws such as the EU and UK GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act give you rights to access, correct, delete or move your personal data, and to object to how it is used. Because Mewsy keeps everything on your device and we hold no personal data about you, you exercise these rights directly in the app or by deleting it. You are still welcome to contact us with any privacy question or request, and we will reply within 30 days.
If you are in the EU or UK, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
If Mewsy ever changes how it handles information, for example by adding purchases, cloud sync or any service that sends data off your device, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches the app. Where the law requires it, we will ask for your consent first.
Questions about privacy? Write to mewsy.app@gmail.com.