Discover privacy policy
Last updated 9 September 2026.
Discover (“the app”) is published by Rodolphe Cambier. It follows your position while you drive and talks about the places you pass. It has no account, no server of its own, no analytics and no advertising. Nothing you do in the app is sent to us.
What leaves your phone, and where it goes
| Data | Sent to | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your position (coordinates) | Apple (reverse geocoding), Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (Wikimedia Foundation) | To name the town you are in and find the places around you. |
| Where you are, in words: town, region, country, direction and speed. Names and short descriptions of nearby places. | Anthropic | So the guide knows what to talk about. Exact coordinates are sent only when the town cannot be named. |
| Your questions, as text | Anthropic | To answer them. Your voice is turned into text on the phone by Apple’s speech recognition (on the phone where the language allows it, else by Apple’s servers). The app does not record or store audio. |
| The words the guide says | ElevenLabs | To turn them into speech. |
| Your Anthropic key | Anthropic only | To pay for the words with your own account. |
| Your ElevenLabs key | ElevenLabs only | To pay for the voice with your own account. |
Anthropic processes this data under its privacy policy and commercial terms; ElevenLabs under its privacy policy. Wikimedia’s policy is here. Apple’s map, geocoding and speech services are covered by Apple’s privacy policy.
What stays on your phone
- Your Anthropic and ElevenLabs keys, in the iPhone Keychain. The app shows only the last four characters of each after you save it.
- Your settings: special interests, manner, voice, language, pace, chattiness, models.
- An estimate of what each day of driving cost, computed from the token counts Anthropic reports and the characters ElevenLabs spoke. Kept for 31 days.
Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Location in the background
Discover keeps following your position with the screen locked, so it can keep narrating. Location is used only while a trip is running. The app does not build a history of where you have been.
Children
The app is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.
Changes
Changes to this policy are published on this page with a new date.