Ambitus
Permissions and Privacy
What Ambitus asks for, and why
Each permission is asked the first time it is needed, not all at the start.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Reminders and Calendar | To show your tasks and events and let you change them |
| Notifications | To alert you at a task's due time |
| Location | Only for the local weather. A city can be chosen manually instead |
| Microphone | For the audio you record in notes and the videos you take |
| Speech Recognition | To turn a recording into text |
| Camera | To take photos and videos for your notes |
| Photos | To add photos and videos to notes, and to keep the original of each video in your Photos library |
Saying no
Everything else keeps working.
- Without Reminders and Calendar, Tasks and the Calendar stay empty. Each time Ambitus starts, a message says which one is off, with Open Settings to go to its switch. Don't Show Again stops the message until both are allowed again.
- Without Location, choose your city.
- Without Notifications, there are no alerts.
Changing your mind
Settings ▸ Tasks & Calendar ▸ Permissions shows what is allowed and opens the device's own settings, where it is changed.
On a Mac, a change made in System Settings reaches Ambitus only after Ambitus is quit (⌘Q) and opened again.
Where your things are
Your notes, lists and quotes are files in your own folders: on your device, or in your iCloud Drive if you chose that. Ambitus has no account and no server of its own, and it doesn't collect anything about you or how you use it.
What leaves your device
- Weather: the place you want the weather for is sent to Apple's weather service.
- iCloud: if your folders are in iCloud Drive, Apple syncs them between your devices.
- Recordings are turned into text on your device. The first time a language is used, the device may download it from Apple.