- Your books, highlights, notes, and reading position live on your device.
- If you turn on iCloud sync, they travel between your own devices, end-to-end encrypted by Apple. Wick can't read them.
- Wick has no analytics, no telemetry, no usage tracking. There is no Wick server logging what you read or when.
- No data is sold. There is nothing to sell.
- No ads. There will never be ads.
- No accounts. There is no sign-up.
What Wick collects, in detail.
Nothing, automatically
Wick does not include any analytics SDKs, crash reporting beyond what iOS provides natively, advertising identifiers, or telemetry. Opening the app, reading a book, taking a note — none of this is reported anywhere.
iOS-native crash reports (only if you opted in at iOS setup)
If you allowed iOS to share app diagnostics with developers, iOS may send Apple a stack trace when Wick crashes. Apple then makes that trace available in Xcode Organizer. The trace contains technical detail about which line of code crashed; it does not contain your books, your notes, or your reading history. These reports are used to fix bugs.
Email (only if you write)
If you email hello@wickreader.app, your message lands in a personal Gmail inbox. It stays there until manually deleted. Replies come from the same address.
What stays on your device.
- Your library. Imported EPUBs, PDFs, and audiobooks live in the app's local sandbox.
- Reading progress. Page position, chapter index, and last-read timestamps stay local.
- Highlights, notes, and reflections. Saved in a local SwiftData database.
- Bookmarks and chapter summaries. Local.
- Reading sessions and stats. Local. Used for the daily-goal ring and stats dashboard.
- Custom fonts. Imported fonts stay in the app sandbox.
iCloud sync (optional, with Wick Pro).
iCloud sync is included with Wick Pro. When enabled, Wick uses Apple's CloudKit to sync your library metadata, reading progress, highlights, notes, and bookmarks across the devices signed in to your iCloud account. The sync is end-to-end encrypted by Apple. Wick has no servers, no database, and no way to read your synced content. Disable iCloud sync at any time in iOS Settings → iCloud → Wick.
Subscriptions (only if you upgrade to Wick Pro).
If you subscribe to Wick Pro, Apple handles the entire purchase: payment, receipts, Family Sharing, refunds, and renewal. Wick uses StoreKit to ask Apple "is this device currently entitled to Wick Pro?" and caches the answer on-device so gated features work offline. Apple does not share your Apple ID, payment method, or transaction history with Wick. Manage or cancel the subscription at any time in iOS Settings → [Your Name] → Subscriptions.
AO3 (only if you subscribe to AO3 feeds).
If you add an Archive of Our Own subscription that requires authentication, you provide your AO3 username and password to Wick. Those credentials are stored in the iOS Keychain, on-device only. They are sent to archiveofourown.org over HTTPS exclusively to authenticate the feed-refresh request. They are never sent anywhere else.
If you only subscribe to public AO3 feeds (author works, public bookmarks, tag feeds), no credentials are needed and none are stored.
OPDS (catalog browsing).
The Discover tab fetches public OPDS catalog feeds (Project Gutenberg, Wolne Lektury, etc.) over HTTPS when you tap a catalog entry. The request is anonymous — no identifiers are sent beyond a standard User-Agent. No requests are made until you tap.
Third parties.
The only third party that touches Wick is Apple, who handles app distribution, iCloud sync, subscription billing, and — if you opted in — anonymous crash reports. Apple's privacy policy applies to those interactions.
This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and uses no analytics. Cloudflare maintains standard server logs (IP address, requested URL, user-agent) for the moment of request as part of their service; those logs are never accessed by Wick.
Children.
Wick is rated 4+. It does not collect any data from anyone, including children.
Your rights.
Because Wick does not store your data on any server, there is nothing to delete, port, or correct on Wick's side. Local data lives on your device; delete the app to remove it. iCloud-synced data lives in your iCloud account; manage it in iOS Settings → iCloud → Manage Storage.
If you have emailed hello@wickreader.app and want the message thread deleted, write back and say so.
Changes to this policy.
If anything material changes, the date at the top of this page will update and an entry will be added to the project repository. Wick will not quietly start collecting data.
Questions.
Email hello@wickreader.app.