DialBeans Privacy Policy
Last updated: 1 November 2026
DialBeans is a coffee journal. Your journal stays on your iPhone and, if you use iCloud, in your own private iCloud database, which we cannot read. There are no accounts and no advertising, and we do not collect your data. The app has no server of ours to send anything to.
Who we are
DialBeans is published by Not Too Much s.r.o., a company registered in the Czech Republic, company ID (IČO) 22566821, with its registered office at Rybná 716/24, Staré Město, 110 00 Praha 1 ("we"). For any privacy question, write to dialbeans@not2much.com.
What we collect
Nothing. DialBeans has no accounts, analytics, advertising, crash reporting or tracking by us or by third-party services, and it does not track you across apps or websites.
What stays on your iPhone and in your iCloud
Your bags, brews, ratings, tasting notes, bag photos and settings are stored on your iPhone. If iCloud is on, they sync between your devices through the private database and key-value storage of your own iCloud account (Apple CloudKit). That storage belongs to your Apple Account and we have no access to it. Apple's handling of it is covered by Apple's privacy policy.
The camera
The camera is used when you scan a bag, or when you take a photo of your cup to put on a share card. Reading the label, choosing the best photo and lifting the bag off its background all happen on your iPhone. A bag's photo is saved in your journal. A photo of your cup is used for that card and then dropped, not kept. Nothing is sent to us.
Illustrated bags
On supported iPhones you can have a bag drawn with Apple's Image Playground. This is an Apple system feature that uses your bag's photo; the result is kept on your iPhone. We receive nothing. Apple's terms apply to Image Playground.
Recommendations
Discover's suggestions are worked out on your iPhone from your journal and a catalog of coffees built into the app. Your ratings do not leave your device for this.
Notifications
If you allow it, DialBeans schedules a local reminder on your iPhone for the morning a resting bag is ready. No notification comes from a server of ours.
What you choose to share
When you share, the card you chose and the words that go with it (the coffee, your review, a recipe, a link to the shop if the bag has one) go where you send them, through iOS. Nothing passes through us, and whoever receives them can read them. Links shared from earlier versions carry a bag's details and recipes in the link itself, along with the first name set at the time, if any.
Your photos
DialBeans can't read your photo library. When you choose a photo, you pick it in Apple's own picker, and only that photo reaches the app. If you save a card, iOS asks to let DialBeans add it to your photos.
Links to shops
Links to buy a coffee or visit a roaster open in your browser. Those websites have their own privacy policies.
Exporting and deleting your data
You can export your journal as a file from Settings. Deleting the app removes its data from your iPhone. You can remove the iCloud copy in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Storage → DialBeans.
Your rights
We hold no personal data about you through the app, so there is nothing for us to access, correct or erase on your behalf; you control all of it on your device and in your iCloud. If you write to us, we use your message and address only to answer you. Under the GDPR you may also complain to the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (ÚOOÚ).
Children
DialBeans is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy changes, for example if a future version adds a feature that sends data anywhere, we will update this page and the date above before that version is released.