Type Privacy Policy
Effective November 10, 2026
Type is a writing app for Mac, iPad and iPhone. This page says what it does with your writing and who is responsible. The short version: your writing stays on your device. The only thing that ever leaves it is what you ask the AI co-writer to work on, sent to Anthropic with your own key. There is no Type server and no account.
Who is responsible
Type is made by Alex Goeke, a sole proprietor doing business as Alexander Creative.
Alex Goeke, doing business as Alexander Creative
San Antonio, Texas, USA
creative@alexandergoeke.com
No account, no tracking
Type has no sign-in, no ads and no tracking of any kind. It contains no analytics or crash-reporting code. We do not sell or share personal information, and we never receive your writing.
If you've chosen in your device settings to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send us anonymous crash reports about Type. They don't include your name or your writing. You can turn that off in Settings (or System Settings on the Mac), Privacy and Security, Analytics and Improvements.
Your writing stays on your device
Projects are saved on your device: on the Mac inside Type's own storage, and on iPad and iPhone in Type's folder, which you can see in the Files app. Word, RTF, ODT and other files you open are edited where they are, in whatever folder or cloud drive you keep them. Fonts you add are copied into Type's own storage.
Learning your voice
When you add folders or files under Settings, Voice, and choose Learn My Voice, Type reads only those, on your device. It measures how you write (sentence rhythm, punctuation habits, the words you use) and keeps short passages of your writing in a private store inside Type. It writes a voice profile you can read and edit. None of this is uploaded. Remove a folder and everything learned from it is deleted.
Type does not read your messages, email, notes or contacts.
The AI co-writer: Anthropic, with your own key
The AI features (continue, rewrite, dialogue, notes, proofreading) use Claude, made by Anthropic, PBC. They work only after you paste your own Anthropic API key, which Type keeps in your device's Keychain. You have your own account with Anthropic and pay them directly.
When you use an AI feature, Type sends Anthropic, over an encrypted connection:
- the text around your cursor or the passage you selected, and what you asked for;
- your voice profile and a few short passages of your own writing, as examples of your style;
- for fiction, the names and one-line summaries from that project's story bible;
- the name you entered under Your name, if any, so the AI knows whose voice it's writing in.
Nothing else is sent: not your other projects and not your files. Anthropic handles that data under its own terms and privacy policy (anthropic.com/legal/privacy). At the time of writing, Anthropic's terms for API customers say it does not train its models on API inputs.
No AI request is made unless you ask for one.
Your rights
We don't hold any of your data, so there is nothing for us to access, correct or delete. Everything Type keeps is on your device, and deleting Type deletes it. If you email us, we use your email only to reply, and delete it on request.
Children
Type is not directed at children under 13 and collects nothing from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new effective date.