Last updated 9 August 2026 · iOS app and keyboard extension
AliasKey has no account, no identifier and no analytics, and it collects nothing about you. Neither the app nor the keyboard contains networking code, so nothing leaves your iPhone at all.
Everything the app holds lives in its own storage on your iPhone, in a container shared with the keyboard so that both can read the same list:
If iCloud Backup is switched on, that container is included in your own device backup, encrypted under your Apple Account. That is Apple's backup rather than ours, and we cannot read it. If you choose a folder for the optional off-device copy, copies are written there; that folder is yours, and where it syncs, if anywhere, is your choice.
There are none. No analytics provider, no crash reporter, no advertising network, no font or icon service fetched at runtime, no cloud of ours. The app ships with everything it draws.
The only third-party material in it is artwork: the country flags come from FlagKit under the MIT licence and are bundled with the app, not downloaded. AliasKey itself is free software under GPL-3.0-or-later, so the claims on this page can be checked in the source rather than taken on trust.
Because nothing is collected and there is no server, there is nothing for us to retain and no request is needed to delete it. Everything the app keeps lives on your device for as long as the app is installed.
Deleting the app removes all of it: your aliases, your categories, your settings and every backup copy inside the app. If you granted a folder for off-device copies, the files already written there are yours and stay where they are; the app never deletes anything inside a folder you granted, even when you use Delete everything.
Inside the app, Export a copy writes you the whole library as JSON or CSV, and Delete everything removes it, behind three confirmations, permanently.
AliasKey is made by Kirill Sundyrtsev. Questions about this policy: [email protected].
This page is updated with any release that changes data handling, and the date near the top says when that last happened. Material changes will be reflected here before the version that makes them ships, and the App Store privacy details will be kept in step. Previous wording stays in the application's public repository history.