Privacy

The short version

• Smiti works only for you. Nobody in your chats is told or contacted, and Smiti never sends a message without your tap: it writes, you decide whether it goes.
• We don't sell your data, share it with advertisers, or use it to train our own AI. See below for exactly which AI services read it.
• One-time passwords and bank OTPs are never kept.
• You can stop reading any chat, switch off any source, and delete one chat, one person or everything — for real, at any time.
• Smiti is for adults (18+).

What Smiti reads

Only what you turn on, on your own phone:

• Messages: WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram direct messages and SMS from people, read from the notifications your phone shows you. SMS from businesses (couriers, offers, OTPs) is skipped.
• Your WhatsApp backup, if you give Smiti its key, so it can read your history. The key stays on your phone and is never sent to us.
• Payments: notifications from GPay, PhonePe, Paytm, BHIM, CRED and MobiKwik, and banks' transaction SMS — the amount, sent or received, and who to or from. Never OTPs.
• Calls you record with Smiti's Record button, voice notes and chat exports you add, and your contacts if you add them (to put names to numbers).
• Conversations through your earbuds, only if you turn on “Ask to listen when my buds connect”: when they connect, Smiti asks first and hears nothing unless you tap Listen, with a Stop button showing the whole time. Please tell the people with you — in many places recording a conversation needs everyone's consent.

Each source has its own switch in the app (You → Privacy → What Smiti reads). Switched-off apps are filtered on the phone and never leave it. Every other notification on your phone is ignored.

What Smiti does with it

Everything is used only to help you: remembering your people, their birthdays and special dates, the promises and plans in your chats, money between you and friends, things people sent you (addresses, UPI IDs, bookings, links), catch-ups for busy groups, memories, and drafts written the way you talk to each person.

To do this Smiti builds private notes about the people in your chats — like a birthday, how you talk to them, or what's going on in their life. These notes exist only for you, are never shown to anyone else, and are deleted with your data.

It also keeps a living picture of your life and of each person in it — what's going on now, your routines, what's open between you — written in plain words from those notes, and works out your Today from it. Every note points back to the message it came from. Things about health, relationships, money trouble or legal matters are marked private.

You can see everything it understands on your Today and on each person's page. Mark any line as wrong and it is removed at once, what it came from is set aside, and Smiti won't say it again. Deleting a chat, a recording or a person also rewrites these pictures without it.

Which AI services read it

To understand messages and recordings, Smiti sends the relevant text or audio to AI services that process it on our behalf, only to produce your results:

• Sarvam AI (India) — reads new messages and calls as they arrive, works out your Today, and writes drafts.
• Google Gemini and Groq — read your older history in the background, act as a backup when Sarvam is busy, and turn call recordings into text.
• Other models through OpenRouter, only from providers that don't store or train on the data.

During early access, the Gemini and Groq backups may run on their free tiers, whose terms can allow the provider to use content to improve its services. Before Smiti opens to everyone, all processing moves to paid services whose terms don't allow keeping or training on your data. If you'd rather wait for that, you can keep sources switched off until then.

Where it is kept and who can see it

Your data is stored in a cloud database (MongoDB Atlas) and processed on servers in Singapore (Render), protected in transit (HTTPS) and encrypted at rest by our database provider. AI services may process it outside India, as listed above.

You see it in the app, and on the web after logging in. During early access, the person building Smiti may look at system data to fix problems; it is never used for anything else.

Call recordings and voice notes are deleted as soon as Smiti has written them up — only the text is kept. Chat export files you upload are kept until you delete them (unless you chose not to keep them when uploading), so Smiti can re-read them as it improves.

Your controls

• Stop reading a chat: open the person or group and switch off “Read your chat with…” (or “Read this group”). Turn it back on from You → Privacy.
• Hide someone from memories: on their page, switch off “Show in memories”.
• Delete a chat or a person: the messages and everything Smiti took from them go too.
• Delete all your data (your login stays), or delete your account and everything in it: You → Privacy in the app.

Can't use the app? See how to delete your account.

How long we keep it

Until you delete it. Deleting removes it from our live database straight away. Copies can remain in our database provider's automatic backups until those expire on the provider's schedule.

Contact

Questions, requests or complaints: privacy@smiti.app