The privacy promise
What you read in Timber, and what’s on your clipboard, stay on your device — never sent off for ads, never for analytics, never at all. That holds because the reading itself happens on your iPhone: the text is pulled, summarized, translated, and spoken right here, with no cloud in the loop. This is the whole promise, in plain words.
What Timber promises
The one that matters most, stated first: the content you read in Timber is yours and stays yours.
No sign-up, no login, no email. Open Timber and read — the core reader is free, with no catch.
Library and settings ride your private iCloud across devices — never anywhere else.
Extra voices download to this iPhone. They sound more natural and keep working offline.
† If any of these change, this is the first place you’ll see it. Call us out if we drift.
What Timber will never do
Three flat refusals — not goals, not someday. Things Timber will never do, full stop:
send your reading content or clipboard off this device — not to us, not to anyone.
hand your voice recordings to anyone else as training data.
sell or share what you read with advertisers or third parties.
How the claim holds up
The honest version
Because it wouldn’t be true, and you deserve the true version. Timber does talk to the network — but only when you ask it to. When you paste a link, browse a free book, or refresh a feed, it fetches that one thing for you. That’s the whole of it.
And here’s the part that matters: the article text it reads back to you is processed on your phone. Fetching a page is not the same as uploading what you read — the words you listen to never go anywhere. Neither does what’s on your clipboard.
So we don’t say “nothing ever leaves your phone,” because some things do, at your request. We say the line we can actually keep: what you read, and what’s on your clipboard, stay on your device. We’d rather make one promise we can prove than a bigger one we can’t.