Orca is an iOS podcast player that reads the episodes in your queue and tells you which are worth your time. To do that, our servers process podcast content and a small amount of information you give us.
Podcast content. Episodes from publicly available podcast feeds are transcribed and analyzed on our servers. This is the publishers’ content, not yours, and it is not tied to you.
Your interests. The listening-interest description you type into the app, and the corrections you make to Orca’s verdicts, are stored on our servers and used only to personalize your results.
Device information. An anonymous device identifier (via Apple’s App Attest) is used for rate limiting and abuse prevention. We do not collect your name, email, contacts, or location, and the app has no user accounts.
No advertising, no analytics SDKs, no sale or sharing of personal information, no tracking across other apps or websites.
We use cloud hosting and AI model providers to process episode text and generate results (currently Fly.io for hosting, and Anthropic and OpenAI as model providers). Episode content and your interest text are sent to these providers solely to provide the service. When subscriptions launch, purchases are handled by Apple; we never see your payment details.
Deleting your data from the app’s settings removes your profile, corrections, and device records from our servers. Shared, non-personal episode analysis (which is not tied to you) may be retained.
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