The short version.

Last updated 19 May 2026

Brink is built local-first. Your library, your follows, your bookmarks, your listening history — all of it lives on your device. We avoid collecting personal data we don't need to make the app work.

What stays on your device

• Shows you follow and folders you create.
• Episodes you've played, bookmarked, downloaded, or finished.
• Playback position, speed, sleep timer, and preferences.

Brink stores this in a local database on your iPhone using Apple's SwiftData. We don't sync it to a Brink account or any server we run.

What leaves your device

Some features can't work entirely offline. When you use one of these, a request goes to a third party:

• Search and discovery. Lookups for podcasts and episodes go to Apple's iTunes Search API. We don't proxy or store the results on our side.
• RSS feeds. When you follow a show or refresh episodes, Brink fetches the publisher's RSS feed directly.
• AI features. Daily Brief, Ask the Episode, AI Chapters, and Smart Skip generate their output by sending the relevant transcript or audio metadata to a model provider. The model provider processes your request to produce a response; we don't use your queries to train models.
• Share links. When you share a podcast or episode from Brink, a short identifier is stored on a Cloudflare-hosted shortener so the link you share resolves correctly on the other end. It expires automatically.

Analytics on this website

trybrink.app uses Microsoft Clarity to understand how people use the marketing site (clicks, scrolls, session replays of the page itself). Clarity does not capture form contents or any data from inside the Brink iOS app. You can opt out at any time using your browser's privacy controls or Microsoft's privacy controls.

What we don't do

• We don't require an account.
• We don't show ads, and we don't sell or share your data with advertisers.
• We don't track you across other apps or websites.
• We don't use third-party trackers inside the iOS app.

Children

Brink is rated 12+ and isn't designed for children under 13. We don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 13.

Changes

If we change how Brink handles data, we'll update this page and the "Last updated" date at the top. For material changes we'll surface a notice in the app.