Privacy

Summary

The app works on your phone first. Anything that leaves the phone for a cloud AI service requires your choice, Allow cloud, and Local only keeps AI work on the phone. There are no advertising partners and no analytics SDKs, and nothing is sold.

Local only or Allow cloud

Setup asks once, and Account shows the saved choice at any time.

• Local only. Pictures, recipes and chat are not sent to a cloud AI service, and the sous chef is off: every sous chef job runs in the cloud on Premium. Your kitchen, recipes, plans and cooking keep working on the phone, and filming works with manual entry beside the frames.
• Allow cloud. A chat message, a recipe or plan request, or the pictures chosen from a filmed pass or receipt can go to a cloud AI service. Before you choose, the app shows the service, what is sent and the daily limit per kitchen for each kind of request.

Each kitchen has daily limits during the beta. Switching to Local only stops new cloud requests; a request sent before the change may have been processed.

Filming your kitchen

• The video stays on the phone, under either choice. It is deleted from the app as soon as the phone has read it, and it is never saved to your photo library. An unconfirmed batch and the frames it kept are removed 7 days after filming.
• Chosen frames and label close-ups are what can leave the phone, and only with Allow cloud. They are stored in your kitchen's private storage and each item keeps its own frames as evidence. Frames are not yet screened for people, so keep people out of the shot.
• Barcodes and label text are read on the phone.

Narration and cooking voice

In the cooking screen the microphone listens only after you tap it. Your speech is turned into text on the phone and the sound is never saved or sent. Spoken commands for steps and timers stay on the phone; a spoken question for Ziggy is shown to you first and goes to the cloud only when you send it.

Narrating while you film is optional. Your speech is turned into text on the phone, and the sound is never saved to a file or sent anywhere. With Allow cloud, short phrases of that text go along with the pictures as hints for naming an item. The microphone and speech recognition permissions are asked once, in setup.

Kitchen chat and AI services

• Kitchen chat, recipe and plan requests, and pictures with Allow cloud are sent through Animachord, Will Do Chef's hosted AI task service, to Anthropic.
• If Anthropic is down, Animachord routes the request to OpenAI instead. OpenAI receives the same text and pictures Anthropic would have.
• Each service's own terms govern what it keeps. Will Do Chef records the model, token counts, usage and HTTP status of every call to enforce daily limits.

Where your kitchen is stored

Your kitchen (pantry stock, equipment, preferences, usual cooking hours, saved recipes, meal plans, cooking history, chat turns and confirmed capture items) is stored on Cloudflare: records in a D1 database and pictures in R2 object storage. On the web and on iPhone, each person signs in with their invited email address and a six-digit code sent to it, and gets a separate kitchen. On iPhone, the sign-in session is kept in the device Keychain. Another person's account cannot read yours.

Joining the Premium waitlist stores your email address, the plan you picked and the date, to email you about the beta and nothing else; ask [email protected] to remove it.

Improving Will Do Chef's testing

A separate switch, "Improve Will Do Chef's testing", controls whether items you correct after filming, and the frames they came from, are kept as test cases for checking that Will Do Chef reads kitchens accurately. It is on by default in the United States and off everywhere else. You see it in setup and in Account, and you can turn it off at any time: turning it off stops new cases and removes the ones from your kitchen.

What is not collected

• Audio of any kind.
• Advertising identifiers, analytics or usage tracking.
• Contacts, precise location or your photo library (beyond any photo or video you choose to attach).
• Payment details. Premium is not on sale yet.

Deletion and export

• Video: deleted on the phone as soon as it has been read. An unconfirmed batch and its frames are removed 7 days after filming.
• Corrections used for testing: removed when you turn the switch off.
• Chat history and device data: conversation history can be cleared, and Disconnect kitchen in Account on iPhone clears the saved sign-in and local drafts, downloads and cached kitchen data from that phone.
• Account deletion and export: deleting your account or exporting all of your kitchen records from inside the app is not available yet. Email [email protected] from your invited address to have your kitchen's records and pictures exported or deleted.

Children

Will Do Chef is not directed at children under 13 (US) or 16 (EU).

Changes

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Contact

Email [email protected] for privacy, export and deletion requests, or [email protected] for general support. Will Do Chef is run by Sean Acres in California.

Last updated: 2026-11-09.