The short version
Bookloft collects no personal data. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Your books, notes, highlights, reading progress and settings stay on your iPhone or iPad.
What stays on your device
Books you import or add, their covers, your bookmarks, highlights, reading positions, reading time, the optional first name shown on Home, PDF passwords (kept in the device keychain), and the downloaded voices. None of it is sent to the developer or anyone else. iCloud sync is not used. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Narration
Read Aloud uses natural voices generated by an AI voice model (Kokoro-82M) on your device. The text of your books is never uploaded to be spoken.
When the app goes online
Only when you use a feature that needs it, and only to fetch what you asked for. These services receive the request and your device's IP address, as any website would; Bookloft sends no identifier of you or your device.
Free classics search — the words you type are sent to Gutendex (an index of Project Gutenberg) and to Open Library.
Adding a free classic — the book is downloaded from Project Gutenberg, with its cover.
Finding a missing cover (can be turned off in Profile) — a book's title, author and ISBN are sent to Open Library and, if it finds nothing, Google Books.
Downloading the voices — the voice files are downloaded once from Hugging Face.
Each service's own privacy policy applies to the requests it receives.
Children
Bookloft collects no data from anyone, including children.
Your choices
You can remove any book, its cover or the downloaded voices inside the app, turn off online cover lookup in Profile, or delete the app to remove everything it stored.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Questions: see Help and Support.