Privacy Policy

Last updated November 14, 2026

HomeNom is a recipe box for iPhone and iPad. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. Most of what it does happens on your device. This page explains the few times something leaves it.

Your recipes

Recipes, lists, tags and photos are stored on your device. If you use iCloud, they sync between your devices through the private CloudKit database of your own iCloud account, which only your devices can read. Apple's iCloud terms apply to that storage.

Saving a recipe

• From a link. HomeNom requests the page, and the recipe's photo, directly from the site that publishes it, the same way a browser would. That site sees the request like any other visit.
• From Safari's share sheet. HomeNom reads the page you are looking at on your device.
• From a note or pasted text. The text is read on your device.

Reading recipes into ingredients and steps

On devices with Apple Intelligence turned on, recipe text is read on the device and goes nowhere.

On devices without Apple Intelligence, or with it turned off, the text of the recipe you are saving is sent to the HomeNom server at homenom.app, which uses Cloudflare Workers AI to pick out the ingredients and steps and sends them back. The text is used only to answer that request and is not stored. The About screen in the app says which of the two applies to your device.

Recipe pages on homenom.app

Nothing is uploaded until you tap the Safari button on a recipe. When you do, HomeNom uploads that recipe's title, description, ingredients, steps, notes, photo and source link to homenom.app and gives it a page of its own, so HomeView can open it.

• The page's address is long and random. Anyone who has the link can open the page, so share it only with people you want to see it.
• Pages ask search engines not to list them.
• A page comes down by itself a week after you last opened it from the app, and its text and photo are deleted from the server. Tapping the Safari button again puts it back at the same address.
• Choosing Remove Page, or deleting the recipe, deletes the page and its photo from the server right away.

The install key

The first time it needs the server, HomeNom makes a random key on your device and sends it with each request. The server keeps a one-way fingerprint of that key next to each page so that only you can change or remove your pages. The key is kept in your keychain, and iCloud Keychain may sync it to your other devices. It is not connected to your name, your email address or your Apple Account.

HomeNom Unlimited

HomeNom is free for your first 10 recipes. The optional subscription that removes the limit is sold and billed by Apple through your Apple Account. HomeNom learns only whether a subscription is active on your device; it never sees your payment details, and nothing about the purchase is sent to homenom.app.

Server logs

homenom.app runs on Cloudflare. Like any website, it receives your IP address with each request. It is used to limit how often one address can call the server, and Cloudflare keeps standard short-lived request logs to operate the service. HomeNom does not use it to identify you or to build a profile.

What HomeNom does not do

It does not sell or share your data, show ads, track you across apps or websites, or use your recipes for anything other than showing them to you.

Removing your data

Deleting a recipe removes it from your devices and removes its page from homenom.app. If you deleted the app while pages were still online, they come down by themselves within a week. To have one removed sooner, send its link through the support form.

Children

HomeNom is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect personal information from them.

App Store

Apple may share anonymous, aggregated statistics with developers, such as download counts, and crash reports if you opt in on your device. That is controlled by Apple and by your own device settings.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Send a message through the support form.