Last Page Privacy Policy

Last Page (called Afterword before version 2.1) is an ebook, comic and audiobook reader. It comes with free public-domain classics and reads the books you own. It has no accounts of its own, no ads, no analytics and no tracking. The developer does not run any servers and does not receive your books, your reading activity or any personal data.

What stays on your device

Your books, covers, reading positions, highlights, notes, bookmarks, drawings on PDFs, vocabulary, reading statistics and settings are stored on your device, inside Last Page's own storage.

These features run entirely on your device and send nothing anywhere:

• Smart Reading with Apple's on-device model (story so far, Ask this book, Who's Who, word hints).
• Word Hints, short glosses above hard words, which use a word list built into the app and Apple's on-device model.
• Audiobook alignment, which listens to an audiobook you added with Apple's on-device speech recognition to line it up with the matching ebook. Last Page asks for permission first, and the audio never leaves your device.
• Bilingual reading, which translates paragraphs with Apple's on-device Translation. Translations are kept on your device. The first time you use a language, iOS may download that language from Apple.
• Recognize Text, which reads the pages of a scanned PDF with Apple's on-device text recognition and adds their text to the file.
• Imports of highlights and reading lists from files you choose: Kindle clippings and notebook exports, Apple Books annotation databases, and Goodreads or StoryGraph exports.
• Exports of your highlights as Markdown, CSV or JSON, which are written only where you choose to save or share them.

iCloud

If you are signed in to iCloud and leave sync on, Last Page stores your library details, reading positions, highlights, reading sessions, settings, the text settings you keep for a single book, your drawings on PDFs and your audiobook alignments in your private iCloud database, and your book files too if you turn on "Sync Book Files". This data is held by Apple under Apple's privacy policy and is visible only to your Apple Account. You can turn sync off in Settings at any time.

Read Together

When you start or join Read Together, Last Page uses Apple's SharePlay to share with the people in that FaceTime call or Messages conversation: the book's title, author and an identifier for the book, your place in it, the highlights you make while reading together, your reactions, and the name you set for the Home greeting (or "Reader 2" if you set none). Nothing is shared before you start or join, and sharing stops when you leave. SharePlay is provided by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.

Book clubs

When you start or join a book club, Last Page uses Apple's iCloud sharing (CloudKit) to share with the club's members: the club's name and length, the book's title, author and an identifier for it, the name you give yourself for clubs, your progress through the book as a percentage when you check in, and the notes and check-ins you post. The club lives in the host's iCloud and is shared only with people who open the club's link. Leaving a club removes you from it; when the host ends it, it is removed for everyone. iCloud is provided by Apple under Apple's privacy policy.

Free libraries

When you browse or search the free libraries in Browse (Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, Wikisource and textos.info), Last Page asks those sites for their catalog pages, your search words and the books you download, as any web browser would. You don't need an account, and nothing else about you is sent.

Last Page Plus

Last Page Plus is bought through Apple's App Store. Apple handles the payment; Last Page checks on your device, with Apple, whether you have Plus and which version you first installed (people who installed before 2.0 keep Plus). The developer does not receive your name, payment details or purchase history.

Services you choose to connect

Last Page sends data to another service only when you set that service up. Each one receives only what it needs:

• Book servers and catalogs you add (OPDS catalogs such as Calibre-Web, Kavita or Komga, and Audiobookshelf): your sign-in details for that server, requests for the books you browse or open, and, for Audiobookshelf, your listening progress.
• KOReader progress sync (KOSync): your KOSync username, a password digest, a fingerprint of each book file and your position in it.
• Hardcover: your Hardcover token, the titles and authors you look up, and your reading status and progress for books you link.
• Readwise: your Readwise token and the highlights and notes you export.
• Open Library: the title and author of a book when you search for its cover or details.
• AI Narration with ElevenLabs (optional, off by default): your ElevenLabs API key, and the text of the sentences you have read aloud, so ElevenLabs can make the audio. The audio is kept on your device. ElevenLabs handles the text under its own policy and bills your account.
• Cloud AI (optional, off by default): Apple Private Cloud Compute, or Anthropic's Claude with your own API key. Last Page asks for your permission before turning either on. After that, when the on-device model cannot handle a request, your question and the passages of the book needed to answer it are sent to that provider. Apple Private Cloud Compute does not keep them. Anthropic handles them under its own policy and bills your account.

Tokens and passwords you enter are stored in the iOS Keychain on your device. Those services handle your data under their own privacy policies.

Permissions

• Speech recognition: only for audiobook alignment, on your device.
• Notifications: only for the daily highlight review if you turn it on, a note to future you on the day you chose, and a reminder two days before a free trial of Last Page Plus ends if you leave that reminder on.
• Personal Voice: only if you choose to have books read aloud in your own Personal Voice; it stays on your device.

Children

Last Page is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about privacy or Last Page: write to afterwordr@gmail.com.