Privacy Policy

WordRise is an offline vocabulary reference for iPhone. It presents one advanced English word each morning and holds a 10,000-entry dictionary with search, saved and learned lists, and a reading streak.

WordRise does not require an account. There is no sign-in, no password, no email address to provide, and no Atlas Peak Media profile of any kind. Nothing you do in the app is registered with us.

The app contains no networking code of its own. The complete catalog and all 10,000 spoken headword recordings are inside the app, so it works in airplane mode from first launch. The two exceptions described below are both handled by Apple rather than by us.

Reading progress: which words you have been shown, which you have saved, which you have marked as known, and the dates that make up your reading streak.

Settings: whether the morning notification is on and the time you chose for it. WordRise follows the phone's own light or dark appearance and keeps no setting of its own for it.

Purchase status: Apple tells the app whether the Apple Account you are signed in with owns Full Access. That is a yes or no answer. Atlas Peak Media never receives your name, your payment card, or any other billing detail.

All of it lives on your iPhone, in a small on-device store that belongs to the app alone. WordRise has no server of its own and no cloud sync, so none of this is transmitted anywhere and none of it is readable by us.

No analytics and no usage tracking of any kind. No crash-reporting service. No advertising, no advertising identifier, and no tracking across apps or websites.

No third-party software development kits are included in the app at all, so there is no other company receiving anything from it.

WordRise does not ask for your location, your contacts, your photos, your microphone or your camera. It requests exactly one permission, and only if you choose to turn the morning word on: permission to send you that one notification.

Buying or restoring Full Access. This is handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Your device talks to Apple; the app is told only whether the purchase is owned. We are not part of that conversation and receive no payment information.

The optional example-sentence audio. The recordings for all 21,053 example sentences are large, so they are stored on Apple's servers rather than inside the app download, and are fetched only when you ask for them, either from Download example audio in Settings or by confirming the download after tapping an example's speaker. The request goes to Apple, not to Atlas Peak Media, and carries nothing about you. Remove example audio in Settings releases the recordings so iOS can reclaim the space when it needs it.

Nothing else in the app makes a network request, and neither of these sends us anything.

The home-screen widget and the morning notification are drawn on your device from the catalog already inside the app. They fetch nothing.

WordRise shares a small amount of data between the app and the widget using a private storage area on your device that only the app and its widget can read. It holds the day you started (as a day number, so both count mornings from the same place), your streak and your saved and learned totals, the identifiers of the words you have saved or marked as known, and any save or mark you made from the widget so the app can apply it next time it opens. The morning notification carries its entry inside the notification itself and reads none of this. It never leaves your iPhone.

WordRise is a general-audience dictionary and is not directed at children. It collects nothing from anyone, including children, because it collects nothing at all.

As a dictionary of advanced English, the catalog includes clinical anatomical and medical headwords that general dictionaries carry. Three explicit sexual terms are held out of the word of the day, the widget and the notification, so they cannot appear unprompted and are reachable only by deliberate search or browsing; other clinical entries remain in the daily rotation. The app's age rating reflects the content it contains.

Settings has a Reset progress control that clears your saved words, learned words and streak after a confirmation.

Deleting the app removes everything WordRise has stored on your device, subject to Apple's device backup and restore behavior: a restore from an iCloud or computer backup can bring that data back onto the phone. Because nothing was ever sent to us, there is no copy with Atlas Peak Media to delete and no request you need to make of us.

Your Full Access purchase is held by Apple against your Apple Account rather than by the app, so it survives deleting the app and can be brought back with Restore purchase.

The catalog is built on WordNet 3.0 and the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, each used under its own license. The complete license text ships inside the app under Settings, Content sources. This is an attribution matter rather than a privacy one, and is noted here for completeness.

If WordRise ever changes what it stores or where it sends anything, this page is updated before that version reaches the App Store, and the date above changes with it.