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BeanRitual keeps your coffees on your phone.

Last updated 1 October 2026.

What stays on your iPhone

Your coffees, your shots, your gear, your notes and your label photos are stored on the device, in the app's own database. We can't read them. Delete the app and they go with it.

There's no account. The app never asks you for an email address, a name or a password.

What leaves your iPhone, and when

Two things, and nothing else.

Photos of your coffee bag, when you take them, so that its label can be read. The camera in BeanRitual is only used to photograph coffee bags. The app sends them to our server, along with the names of the roasters already on your shelf, so a roaster you know is spelled the way you spell it.

Our server passes them to Claude, an AI made by Anthropic, which reads the printed text and returns the coffee's name, its roaster, its roast date and the other details on the label. The fields fill in on your phone, and you correct anything that's wrong.

Our server doesn't keep the photos. They exist there for the few seconds the reading takes, then they're deleted. Anthropic handles them under its commercial terms: it doesn't use them to train its models, and it may keep them for up to 30 days to run its service safely (longer only if its safety systems flag them). Your own copy of each photo stays on your phone, with the coffee.

Like any server, ours sees your phone's IP address. We use it for one thing, capping how many labels a single phone can read in a day, and we keep it for 24 hours at most.

If you have no network, or if the reading fails, the app says so and you type the fields yourself. Nothing is sent.

What we count

Three counts, sent to TelemetryDeck, an analytics service made for apps: the app was opened, a shot was saved, a coffee was reopened (with how many days ago it was saved). They tell us whether the app is useful, which is the whole question during this test.

Each count carries a random number drawn when you install the app, scrambled before it leaves your phone. It lets us see that the same install came back. It doesn't tell us who you are: no name, no email, no Apple account, nothing from your contacts or your location, and it isn't used for advertising or shared with anyone.

If you leave your email on this website

The beta list on the home page asks for one thing: your email address. We use it to invite you to try BeanRitual on TestFlight before the App Store release, and to tell you when the app is out. If you arrived through a link that names its source, for example "producthunt", we keep that word next to your email, so we know which links bring people. Nothing else.

The form is a page run by Tally, a form service, which stores your answer for us. Nobody else reads it. If you join the TestFlight beta, Apple sees your email address too, under its own terms. We delete your email within 30 days after the app is on the App Store, and sooner if you write to us. Our own pages set no cookie.

What we never do

We don't sell anything, we show no advertising, and we share nothing with anyone beyond what this page describes.

Who we are

BeanRitual is built by Dounia Boughalem and published by Saylib. Write to contact@coffee.saylib.com with any question about this page, or to ask what we hold about you, which is close to nothing.

When this changes

This is a test version, so the app will change. If what leaves your phone ever changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves.