FeedWatch is an RSS news reader for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch developed by Giuseppe Arbia (neurosonica). This policy explains what data the app accesses, processes, or stores, and how your privacy is protected.
FeedWatch does not collect, sell, or share your personal data. There are no analytics, no advertising SDKs, and no account or sign-in required. Almost everything happens on your device.
When the app refreshes your news feeds, it contacts the RSS feed URLs you have subscribed to (including built-in sources and any custom feeds you add). These are standard HTTP/HTTPS requests to public servers — the same requests a web browser would make. Article images referenced in those feeds are downloaded and cached on your device for display.
No personally identifying information is included in these requests beyond what your device sends automatically (IP address, standard HTTP headers). FeedWatch has no control over how third-party feed publishers handle their server logs.
FeedWatch uses Apple's iCloud Key-Value Store (NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore)
to sync your read and saved article IDs across your own devices. This data is stored
in your personal iCloud account and is governed by
Apple's Privacy Policy.
No one other than you (and Apple as iCloud operator) can access this data.
You can disable iCloud sync at any time in iOS Settings → Apple ID → iCloud → FeedWatch.
FeedWatch can generate one-sentence article summaries using Apple Intelligence / Foundation Models — Apple's on-device AI framework. Article text is processed entirely on your device; it is never sent to any server (not Apple's, not ours). This feature requires iOS 26 or later on an Apple Intelligence-capable device and can be ignored on older hardware.
Podcast mode and per-article reading use Apple's on-device AVSpeechSynthesizer. The Translate button uses Apple's on-device translation framework. Neither feature sends text to external servers.
The Share Extension lets you save article URLs from other apps into FeedWatch. Shared URLs are written to an App Group container on your device and read the next time FeedWatch opens. This data never leaves your device.
Headlines displayed in Home Screen widgets and on your Apple Watch are read from a local JSON file stored in the App Group container shared between FeedWatch targets. No network request is made by the widget or Watch app directly.
The following is kept only on your device (and in your personal iCloud account where noted):
All locally stored data is deleted when you delete the app from your device. The iCloud KV data is managed through your iCloud account.
FeedWatch is a general news reader and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children.
If this policy changes materially (e.g. a new feature that contacts an external service is added), the updated policy will be posted here with a revised date and noted in the App Store release notes.
Questions about privacy? Contact us at joe@neurosonica.ca.