Solari.

Privacy policy.

Effective October 6, 2026. Last updated October 6, 2026.

Solari is a meal-planning app for families, made by Solari Family LLC (“Solari,” “we,” or “us”). This policy explains what the Solari app for iPhone and the solari.family website collect, why, who helps us handle it, how long we keep it, and the choices you have. Solari is offered in the United States. Questions can always go to jeremy@solari.family.

The short version. Solari keeps what it needs to plan your family’s dinners: your household’s details, your recipes, your weeks, and your shopping lists. To draft weeks and read recipes, some of it is sent to AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. We do not sell your information, share it for advertising, or use it to train AI models. You can delete your account in the app.
  1. What we collect
  2. What the app records on its own
  3. How we use it
  4. AI models
  5. Reading recipes you share
  6. Stores and Apple features
  7. Links you share
  8. Who else handles information
  9. Children
  10. How long we keep it
  11. Deleting your account
  12. Your choices and rights
  13. Security
  14. This website
  15. Changes and contact

What we collect.

Your account.

Solari uses Sign in with Apple. Apple gives us an identifier for your account and an email address, which can be a private relay address if you choose to hide your email. Apple may offer to share your name, but Solari does not keep it. You type the names you want Solari to use. We never see your Apple password.

Your household.

The adults and children you add: their names, children’s ages, allergies and how severe they are, diets, foods they like or avoid, and how many lunches they eat at home. How your family cooks: which nights you cook, how much time you have, when you usually eat, your kitchen equipment, your grocery budget, pantry staples, whether you prefer organic, the stores you use, and when you want your weekly planning reminder.

What Solari learns from you.

When you tell Solari something that should last, like an allergy, a food someone avoids, or a night you are always out, Solari saves it as a household fact with the date and where it came from. An allergy or a diet is saved only when you state it, never guessed. You can see these facts in What Solari knows (in You) and end any of them. An ended fact stays in your household’s history with the date it ended.

Your recipes, photos, and files.

Recipes you save, import, write, or ask Solari to create. Links you share with Solari, recipe text you paste, PDFs, and photos or screenshots of recipe pages you import. Photos you add to a recipe. Your notes, ratings, and a record of what you cooked.

Photos you send in the chat.

If you send Solari a photo of your fridge, pantry, or groceries, it is read to name the food it can see and is not saved on our servers. It stays in your chat history on your phone. A photo of a recipe sent in the chat is read to fill in that recipe.

Your weeks and shopping.

Your weekly plans and the changes you make, shopping lists, what you check off, items you add, and product matches you ask Solari to remember for a store.

Your conversations with Solari.

What you type or say to Solari is sent to our servers and to an AI model so Solari can answer (see AI models). We do not store your chat history on our servers. Your phone keeps it for 30 days, and it is left out of your phone’s backups. What Solari does because of a conversation, like changing your week or saving a household fact, is saved to your family’s account.

Your voice.

When you speak to Solari, Apple’s speech recognition turns your words into text, on your iPhone when your iPhone supports that. If it does not, or if you try again after a miss, Apple’s servers may do the recognition. Solari receives only the text, never the recording, and the recording is deleted from your phone once it has been turned into text.

Feedback and support.

If you report a problem from the app, we receive the details the app attaches (which screen or recipe, its status, your app version, and your time zone) and any note you write. A short preview of your note is sent to our phone as a notification through ntfy and to our inbox through Formspree. If you send feedback about a shopping trip, your note and the store you used are emailed to us through Formspree. We also keep the emails you send us.

What the app records on its own.

Solari does not use your device’s location, does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites, and does not include advertising or third-party analytics tools.

How we use it.

We use allergy, diet, and other health-related details only to provide Solari to your family. We do not sell personal information, share it for targeted advertising, or use it to train AI models.

AI models.

Solari uses AI models to talk with you, read recipes, draft and adjust your week, name the food in a photo, suggest swaps, and draw recipe illustrations. We reach these models through Vercel’s AI Gateway, which passes each request to the model’s provider. The providers process what we send in order to return a result to Solari. Their handling of that data is governed by their terms for business and API customers. We do not send your email address or Apple account details to them.

The rules that keep severe allergens out of a drafted week, and that plan it around the diets you have told Solari about, are fixed rules in Solari’s own code, not decisions made by an AI model.

Reading recipes you share.

When you share a link with Solari, we fetch the public post or page to find the recipe: its caption or text, its images, public comments, the creator’s public profile or website, and, for videos, a transcript or the video itself. Our servers read pages directly and also use these services to fetch public content:

We also use TikTok’s and YouTube’s public embed services, and we read ChatGPT and Grok share pages when you share one. These services receive the link, or a creator’s public handle, not your name, email, or household details. For some Instagram links, your phone reads the public post itself and sends its caption to Solari.

If a recipe you add from a photo or pasted text names its creator, Solari may search that creator’s public website for the full recipe using words from the dish’s name. We keep a shared copy of what a public post or page said, so the next family who shares the same link gets the recipe faster. That copy holds only public content. Your pasted text and photos never go into it.

Stores and Apple features.

Links you share.

A recipe link. Anyone with the link can see the recipe’s title, description, times, servings and ingredients. For your family’s own recipes and Solari’s Kitchen recipes, the page also shows the steps, the cover photo (which may be a photo you added) and your family’s name. For a recipe that came from someone else, it shows credit and a link to the original instead of the method and the creator’s photo. Recipe links do not expire. A link stops working if the recipe is deleted.

A week link. Anyone with the link can see your family’s name, the week’s dates, each night’s dinner or the note you typed for that night, how many it serves, and any message you add, with a link to each recipe. You can stop sharing a week at any time. That turns off the week link, but the recipe links in it keep working.

Shared pages do not show allergies or household members’ names. When someone opens a shared page, we count the visit and the taps on it without asking who they are.

Who else handles information.

We use these companies to run Solari. They handle information only to provide their service to us.

Kroger and Amazon receive what you send them when you choose to. We may also disclose information when the law requires it, to protect the safety of people or the security of Solari, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of our business, in which case this policy continues to apply to it.

Children.

Solari is for adults. You must be 18 or older to create an account, and we do not knowingly let children under 13 create accounts or give us information directly. A parent or guardian may add their children to the household as profiles, including their names, ages, allergies, and foods they like or avoid, so Solari can plan for them. We use a child’s information only to plan, shop, and cook for your family, and it is sent to our AI providers as described above so Solari can plan around it. You can change a child’s profile in You, and deleting your family deletes it. If you believe a child has created an account or sent us information, email us and we will delete it.

How long we keep it.

Deleting your account.

In the app, open You, choose Delete account, and confirm.

Photos and files. Photos you added to recipes, photos and screenshots of recipe pages, recipe covers, and PDFs are stored separately from our database. When your family is deleted, a nightly cleanup removes them automatically. An image that another recipe in Solari still uses stays for that recipe, and if you choose Remove just me, your family keeps them. To ask about them sooner, email jeremy@solari.family.

What deleting your account does not remove. Anything you already sent to another service (a Kroger or Amazon cart, Apple Reminders, or a message) is controlled by that service, and a family that saved a recipe you shared keeps its own copy.

Your choices and rights.

Depending on the state you live in, you may have additional rights, such as the right to know what personal information we collect and how we use it, to get a copy of it, to correct it, to delete it, and to opt out of its sale, its use for targeted advertising, or certain profiling. We do not sell personal information or use it for targeted advertising. To make a request, email us. We will confirm your identity using the email connected to your account, and you may use an authorized agent. We will not treat you differently for using these rights. If we decline a request, you can appeal by replying to our answer.

Security.

Solari uses encrypted connections between the app and our servers, and database rules that let only the adults in a family see that family’s information. Photos and recipe covers are stored at long, unguessable web addresses, but anyone who has one of those addresses can open that image. PDFs you import are stored privately. No online service can promise perfect security, so please do not send us passwords, payment card numbers, or other information we have not asked for.

This website.

If you send a form on solari.family, such as a partnership inquiry, employer inquiry, or a request for updates, we receive your name, email address, any company, website, team size or partnership type you supply, what you write, and any campaign tags in the link you used. Formspree processes these forms and delivers them to us. If you answer a short survey on the site, we store your answers, any name and note you add, your browser type, and a one-way hash of your IP address that we use to stop spam, and a copy of your answers and note is sent to our phone. Vercel hosts the site and processes basic request information to deliver and protect it, and the site loads fonts from Google Fonts. We do not use advertising cookies or tracking pixels on this site.

Changes and contact.

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top. If a change is meaningful, we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

Solari Family LLC. For a privacy question or request, email jeremy@solari.family.