Privacy policy

Last updated 18 October 2026

BloomLab Coffee turns a photo or the name of a coffee into a brewing recipe for xBloom coffee machines. We built it to collect as little as possible. There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking.

What stays on your iPhone

• Your saved recipes, favourites, coffees and settings are stored on your device.
• Your own photos are never saved. Bag pictures in My coffees load from the public website where they were found, so that website sees your device's internet address. The shared list of coffee names and picture addresses isn't linked to you.
• When AI reading is turned off in Settings, bag photos are read entirely on your device and never leave it.

What is sent to our server

• Coffee bag photos or bean text. When AI reading is on, the photo you take (or the text you type) is sent to the BloomLab server, which asks Google's Gemini AI to read the coffee details from it. The photo is used only to answer that request. We do not store it, and it is not used to identify you.
• Shop links you paste. The link is sent to the BloomLab server, which opens that page and asks Google's Gemini AI to read the coffee details from it. We do not store the link.
• Recipes you open in xBloom. When you tap “Open in xBloom”, the recipe (its name and brewing settings, no personal information) is saved to a shared BloomLab account on xBloom's service so the xBloom app can open it. These recipes are deleted automatically after 7 days.
• Anonymous coffee data. To improve recipes and understand which coffees people brew, we keep the coffee details that were read (name, roaster, origin, process, roast, tasting notes; never the photo), the recipes made (machine, dripper, size, taste and brewing settings), when a recipe is opened in xBloom or marked as brewed, which detail of a scan you corrected (the field's name only, not what you typed), the grind, ratio and temperature before and after you save an adjusted recipe, the coffees you add to My coffees (the same details and how the coffee was added; never its roast date), the star ratings and comments you choose to leave, and the country you're in (worked out from the connection; your IP address isn't stored). None of this is linked to you or your device. You can turn it off in the app's Settings (“Share anonymous coffee data”).
• Technical data. Like any web service, our server sees your IP address while handling a request. We use it only to prevent abuse (rate limiting) and do not store it.

Service providers

• Cloudflare runs the BloomLab server.
• Google (Gemini API) reads coffee details from photos, text and pasted shop pages, and checks publicly found pictures of coffee bags.
• Brave Search receives a coffee's name and roaster to find a picture of the bag, when AI reading and anonymous data sharing are on.
• xBloom stores recipes you choose to open in the xBloom app.

We do not sell or share your data for advertising.

Camera and photos

The app asks for camera access to photograph coffee bags, and photo library access only if you choose a picture from your library. You can change these permissions at any time in iOS Settings.

Children

BloomLab Coffee is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above.

Contact

Questions about privacy: blooomlaab@gmail.com.