Privacy policy
Effective November 13, 2026
In short: Rules Goblin collects nothing about you. There's no account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, and no third-party code that phones home.
Everything happens on your iPhone. The app's only use of the internet is downloading the goblin's model from Apple's servers.
What happens when you ask
When you hold the button, the app listens through the microphone. Apple's speech recognition turns your words into text on the iPhone itself. The audio isn't saved, and it isn't sent anywhere.
The app then searches the rules stored inside it and an AI model, also on your iPhone, writes the answer. The iPhone's built-in voice reads it out.
What's kept on your phone
- Your recent questions and answers (up to the last 100), so you can look back at them.
- Your settings, like the voice, how fast it talks and how long its answers are.
- The goblin's model, downloaded once.
These stay in the app's own storage on your iPhone. Like any app's data, some of it may be included in your iPhone's backups (iCloud Backup or a computer), which are yours and handled by Apple. Delete the app to delete all of it.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Microphone | To hear your question while you hold the button. Only then. |
| Speech recognition | To turn what you said into text, on the iPhone. |
You can turn either off in iPhone Settings and type your questions instead. Rules Goblin doesn't use your location, contacts, photos, camera or anything else.
Internet use
The first time you open the app, it downloads the goblin's model (about 4 GB) from Apple's App Store servers. iOS may also download Apple's speech recognition files for your language. These downloads are handled by Apple, under Apple's privacy policy. Rules Goblin sends nothing else to anyone: not to us, not to Google, not to anyone.
Until the model has downloaded, the goblin answers with Apple's built-in model, which runs on your iPhone too.
Children
Rules Goblin is made for families and collects no information from anyone, including children.
This website
This site has no cookies, analytics, ads or trackers, and loads nothing from other sites. It's hosted by Cloudflare, which handles the network traffic needed to deliver the pages.
If you email us
If you write to us, we'll see your email address and whatever you send, and use it only to reply. We don't add you to any list. Ask and we'll delete it.
Changes
If the app ever starts sending anything off your phone, this policy will change first, with a new date at the top.