Looté - Privacy Policy

The short version

Looté is an iPhone and iPad app built by Marcello Gonzatto Birkan under the Mellofattura brand. It helps you understand the English on a game's screen: you take a photo, pick an image or share one, and the app recognises the text, translates it and explains it.

The short version: your images and your cards stay on your device, and there is no Looté account. The text read from the screen can be sent to Private Cloud Compute, Apple's private cloud, when the explanation runs there, as described below. If you are a Looté Pro subscriber and turn Claude on, the same text can go to Claude, an AI model by Anthropic, instead. Looté Pro subscriptions go through Apple and RevenueCat. Mellofattura receives nothing you capture.

What happens on the device

Text recognition uses Apple's Vision and runs on the device. Instant translation uses the iOS translation framework, also on the device; the first time, iOS itself may download the language pack. Reading aloud uses the system's speech synthesis.

Explanations, scene summaries and summaries of a queue of screenshots use Apple's language model. It can run on the device or on Private Cloud Compute, depending on the mode you pick and what is available. For Looté Pro subscribers who turn Claude on, they can also be written by Claude, as described below.

Private Cloud Compute

Private Cloud Compute is Apple's cloud service for its language model. Looté uses it:

• in Full mode, which is part of Looté Pro
• in Automatic mode, for Looté Pro subscribers, while the day's quota lasts
• for the summary of a queue of two or more screenshots, which is part of Looté Pro
• for anyone, while the on-device model is still downloading, so the app is never left without an answer

Only text goes to the cloud: the text recognised on the screen, the word or phrase you tapped with the line it appears in, the name of the selected game and your English level. Images are never sent. In On-device and Translation modes, once the on-device model is ready, nothing you capture leaves the device.

Apple handles that request and describes Private Cloud Compute as a service that uses the data only to fulfil the request, without storing it and without giving anyone, Apple included, access to it. See Apple's description of Private Cloud Compute. None of it passes through Mellofattura servers. Apple sets the daily request limit.

Claude (Anthropic)

Looté Pro subscribers on iOS 27 can have explanations, scene summaries and queue summaries written by Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, PBC. Claude is off until you agree to it, in Looté's Settings or when you pick a mode that uses it. Once you agree, Looté uses Claude:

• in Automatic mode, as the first choice
• in Claude mode
• for the tasks you assign to Claude in Custom mode

Only text goes to Anthropic: the text recognised on the screen, the word or phrase you tapped with the line it appears in, the summary of the scene, the name of the selected game and your English level. Images are never sent. The request goes from your device straight to Anthropic, without passing through Mellofattura servers. To confirm that the request comes from a genuine copy of Looté, the app uses Apple's App Attest; no account, name or email is sent.

Anthropic handles that text under its commercial terms and the Anthropic privacy policy. Each subscriber has a daily limit of Claude requests; after it, or if Claude doesn't answer, Apple's models answer instead. You can turn Claude off at any time in Looté's Settings, and from then on nothing goes to Anthropic.

What the app keeps on your device

Looté stores locally, using SwiftData:

• your cards, with the term, the context line, the translation, the explanation and the screenshot, saved as a reduced JPEG without the original photo's metadata
• the games you added and your review history
• your preferences: English level, AI mode, voice speed, review reminder and the selected game

Screenshots still waiting to be processed sit in a local queue, in a folder shared between the app and its share extension. Those files are exact copies of the images you chose, with their original metadata. If you pause a queue, the app also keeps the text already recognised in each screenshot so it can resume later. Live camera frames are not saved unless you save a card.

Purchases

Looté is free to download, with up to 100 cards and one screenshot at a time. Looté Pro is a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription, and a plan may come with a free trial. Payment is made and processed by Apple, through the App Store. We never see your name, your email or your card details.

To validate the subscription, restore access and show the plans screen, the app uses RevenueCat, a service of RevenueCat, Inc. RevenueCat receives:

• an anonymous identifier generated by the app, not tied to your name or your email
• the purchase history and technical device and app data, such as the model, the system version and the store country
• a record of when the plans screen was shown, used to measure conversion
• Apple's attribution token (AdServices), which says whether the download came from an Apple ad

That data keeps the app working and feeds aggregate sales metrics. It contains no images, cards or captured text, it is not used to track you across apps, and it is not sold. RevenueCat handles it under the RevenueCat privacy policy.

Network

The app uses the network to talk to RevenueCat and the App Store (when it opens, shows the plans, buys and restores), for the Private Cloud Compute requests described above and, if you turned Claude on, for the requests to Anthropic and the App Attest check that goes with them. Text recognition, translation and cards work without an internet connection.

Permissions and sharing

The camera is used when you choose to photograph a screen. Picking images uses the system Photos picker, which hands the app only what you chose; Looté gets no access to your whole library. Notifications are only requested if you turn on the review reminder, and that reminder is a local notification scheduled on the device.

When you choose Looté from another app's Share menu, the selected images are copied into the local queue. That gives Looté no access to console accounts or to the content of other apps.

Retention and deletion

Pending screenshots stay in the local queue until they are processed. Moving past or finishing a screenshot deletes its copy; a paused queue keeps the files and the recognised text until you resume it. Images you saved on cards stay with those cards. You can remove cards and games inside the app.

Removing those items does not delete the original images in Photos or in the app they came from.

To delete everything at once:

1. Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage
2. Find Looté
3. Tap "Delete App"

Deleting the app does not cancel the subscription. To cancel, use "Manage Subscription" in Looté's Settings or the subscription settings of your Apple Account.

Device backups and restores are controlled by operating system settings and services, and may preserve copies of app data.

What we don't do

• No analytics tools in the app beyond the RevenueCat sales metrics described above
• No ads
• No cross-app tracking
• No sending of your images or cards to us
• No data sold
• No account, no login

Apple's own system services remain governed by your settings and by Apple's own policies.

This website and support

This page is part of the Mellofattura website, which is a different thing from the app and has its own practices. The site carries no analytics tool and sets no tracking cookies; it is hosted on Vercel, which processes ordinary request data such as IP addresses in order to serve and protect it.

Changes to this policy

This policy is updated when the app or its data practices change, and the new date appears on this page.

Contact

For privacy questions, email us at mgbirkans@gmail.com or use our contact form at Contact. If you send a screenshot along, avoid including personal information that is not needed for support.