Semesterly for iOS · version 1.2 · last updated 28 August 2026
Semesterly does not collect, transmit, or store any of your data. There are no accounts, no servers, and no analytics. The app makes no network request of its own, and nothing you import ever leaves your iPhone.
Everything. Syllabus files you import, the courses and events extracted from them, your completion checkmarks, reminder settings, and appearance preferences are stored only on your iPhone — inside the app's own storage and a shared container used by the home screen and lock screen widgets.
Syllabus parsing — reading PDFs and Word documents, recognising text in photographs, and detecting dates — runs entirely on the device using Apple's built-in frameworks. No file or extracted text is ever uploaded, because the app makes no network request of its own.
The app links StoreKit, Apple's purchasing framework. Nothing is for sale in this version, so it is never called and no purchase can be made ‚Äî but the framework is present, which is why the app describes its network access as “App Store only” rather than none at all. StoreKit talks to Apple, never to us; there is no server of ours for it or anything else to reach.
If you photograph a printed syllabus or choose an existing image, that image is read on your device to recognise its text. It is not copied, retained, or sent anywhere. Access is requested only when you use those features, and you can decline and still use the app by importing a file or pasting text.
Reminders are scheduled locally by iOS. They are not push notifications, they involve no server, and nothing about them leaves your device.
The “Report a bug” option in Settings opens the Mail app with a message you review and send yourself. Nothing is sent automatically or in the background.
That message includes technical diagnostics:
It deliberately does not include course names, assignment titles, dates, or any syllabus text — those are your academic records. If you want to send a syllabus that parsed badly, you attach it yourself.
If no mail account is configured, the report is copied to your clipboard instead, so nothing is ever sent without you.
Deleting the app removes all of its data from your device. There is nothing held elsewhere to request deletion of.
Semesterly is not directed at children under 13, and collects no data from anyone.
Any change will be published at this address with an updated date and version. If a future version of the app gains a feature that transmits data — such as optional sync between your phone and a browser — that change will be described here, and will apply only to that version.
This policy describes version 1.2. The version line at the top names exactly which release the text applies to.
Questions about privacy: brendanwild60@gmail.com