uReadPrivacy Policy
- uRead has no server and no account. Your subscriptions, reading history and settings stay on your device.
- uRead has no analytics, advertising or tracking of its own.
- To show you articles, the app connects directly to the sites and services you choose to read. They can see that request, as they would in any browser.
- The ureadapp.com website counts visits without cookies, and stores votes and feedback without any personal details.
1. The uRead apps (iPhone and Mac)
What stays on your device. Your feeds and folders, articles you have opened or saved for offline reading, read and starred marks, settings, and backups. Backups are files on your own device (on the Mac, in your Documents folder). None of this is sent to us, because we do not run a server for the app.
Sign-ins. If you sign in to Medium or Google News, you do it on the service's own page inside the app. The sign-in is kept in the app's own web storage on your device, separately for each service. If you add a site login for a subscription, it is kept in your device's Keychain and sent only to that site. We never receive any of these.
Accounts and passwords. uRead does not create an account for you and does not ask for your Apple ID, email address or any personal details.
2. Services the app contacts
uRead loads content from the internet when you use it. Each service below receives the request the app makes, including your IP address, and handles it under its own privacy policy. uRead does not add an identifier of its own.
| Service | Why the app contacts it |
|---|---|
| The websites behind your feeds and articles | To download feeds, articles and pictures you choose to read. |
| Google News (news.google.com, accounts.google.com) | Public Google News feeds you pick, and your own For You page if you sign in. |
| Medium (medium.com) | Medium feeds you add, and your For You recommendations if you sign in. |
| Google's icon service (gstatic.com) | To show each outlet's small icon. This tells Google which site's icon is being requested. |
| X, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo | To show posts and videos inside an article. The provider can see that you opened it. You can turn this off in Settings, and the app then shows a link instead. |
| Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch (Dow Jones) (Mac) | For the Stocks tab on the Mac: prices and market headlines. |
| Filter-list hosts (easylist.to, ublockorigin.github.io) (Mac) | To download ad-blocking lists for the Stocks tab's built-in browser. |
3. Optional AI summaries (planned)
We plan to offer optional summaries using your own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. It will be off by default. If you turn it on, the text of the articles you open is sent to the service you choose, under your own account or key with that provider and subject to its policy. We will update this page before the feature is released.
4. The website (ureadapp.com)
- Visit counts. The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which measures visits and pages without cookies and without tracking you across sites. Cloudflare also hosts the site and, like any host, processes requests such as your IP address to deliver pages and protect it.
- Votes. When you vote on the page, we store the choice together with a random identifier that your browser generates and keeps in its local storage. The identifier stops the same browser voting twice. It is not linked to your name, email or device details. Clearing your browser's site data removes it on your side.
- Feedback. What you type in the feedback box is stored with the date. It is anonymous. Please do not include personal details in it.
- No email list. The site does not collect email addresses.
5. What we do not do
- We do not sell your data or share it for advertising.
- We do not build a profile of you or follow you across apps and websites.
- We do not read your articles, feeds or reading history, because they never reach us.
6. Children
uRead is a general news reader and is not aimed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone.
7. Your choices
Deleting the app removes its data from your device. You can sign out of Medium and Google News inside the app, and you can clear the site's local storage in your browser to remove the voting identifier. Because we hold no personal data about you, there is nothing for us to delete on request. If you wrote something in the feedback box that you want removed, email us what it said and when you sent it.
8. Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we will update the date above, and we will explain any significant change on this page before it takes effect. To contact us, email [email protected], or use the feedback box on the home page.