Is Roamwell private? What stays on your devices, in plain words

A travel app sees a lot: your photos, where you’ve been, and who you went with. Here is what Roamwell does with all of it. The legal version is our privacy policy.

Your photo library stays on your devices

Roamwell reads photos from your trip’s dates on your device to suggest each day’s card. Your photos stay in your library. Roamwell doesn’t upload your photo library to its servers.

After you Sign in and add your trips and Boards, two kinds of images are stored with your account: a small thumbnail of each photo on your Timeline, so the web can show your trip day by day, and an image you save to a Board, such as a card’s picture. Your full photos stay in your library.

A card is made from evidence you can edit

Roamwell doesn’t guess where you went, and it doesn’t invent a story. A card is made from photos from the trip’s dates and stops Roamwell noticed that you kept. You choose which photos and places go on it, and you can rewrite every word.

Location is only on during a trip

If you allow Location, Roamwell notices the places you stop, and only while a trip is live. It stops when you tap End trip. There’s no GPS trail of your whole day, and nothing runs between trips. Saving to a Board never turns on Location.

To show place names, Roamwell asks Apple Maps to turn coordinates into names. Your photos and your writing are never sent. It’s on by default; turn off Look up place names in Settings under Places. Around Me on Trips opens Apple Maps directly, and Apple handles that search.

Nothing is shared unless you share it

There’s no feed, no followers, no public profile, and no ads. Nothing is shared with anyone unless you share it. What’s saved to your account when you sign in is covered under “Signing in, and what it’s for.”

Signing in, and what it’s for

You can use Roamwell without an account. Until you sign in, trips and boards stay on this iPhone. When you first sign in, Roamwell keeps an account ID and the email you sign in with, then asks Add these trips and boards to this account? Cancel leaves your trips and boards only on this device; they don’t upload until you confirm. Once you add them:

• Your Boards and Plan are saved to your Roamwell account, so they stay available across your devices.
• Your Timeline (the places you stopped or checked in, when, and which photos belong to each day) is saved to your Roamwell account, with a small thumbnail of each of those photos. The full photos stay in your library. Earlier versions of Roamwell synced this through your private iCloud; anything they saved there stays in your iCloud until you remove it.

If you sign out, Roamwell stops saving your Timeline to your account. What’s on this device stays here, and what’s in your account stays there until you delete your account.

Help with the words stays on your device

When you write a card, Roamwell suggests a few opening lines from that day’s places, times, and photos. They’re made on your iPhone or iPad, with Apple Intelligence where it’s available. Nothing leaves your device, and a line is added only when you tap it.

Live Debrief is a voice assistant you can turn on while you make a day’s card. While it’s on, Roamwell sends your voice, the card’s title and text, the day’s place names, the names and times of that day’s plans (no booking details), and short descriptions of its photos that your iPhone writes, to the voice AI service that runs it. Never the photos. It can change the card as you talk: you see each change, you can undo the latest one, and nothing reaches your board until you tap Add. The service doesn’t use the conversation to train AI models, and Roamwell doesn’t keep it.

Diagnostics are optional

Diagnostics is Off by default. If you turn it on, Roamwell sends crash and performance reports with the app version and a random install identifier. Reports never include photos, coordinates, place names, Plan details, or your writing. They are kept up to 90 days and never linked to your account.

What Roamwell doesn’t do

• No ads, no behavioral tracking, no third-party analytics.
• No social feed, public profiles, or followers.
• No upload of your photo library to Roamwell servers.
• No Apple Health or Fitness data. Roamwell doesn’t ask for it.
• We don’t sell or rent personal information.

Questions? Write to info@roamwellapp.com. The legal details are in our privacy policy.