HouseMoney — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-07-30

HouseMoney tells you what the house in front of you is worth. This policy explains what that costs you in data. The short version: your location is used to answer your question and is never stored with any link to you, we keep no record of where you've been, and an account is optional — without one, your saved houses never leave your phone.

What HouseMoney collects

Your location, at the moment you ask — and only then. When you ask HouseMoney about a house, the app sends your GPS coordinate to our server so it can work out which house you're standing in front of. If you're moving when you ask — walking past, or in a car — it also sends your speed and direction of travel from that same GPS reading, so the server can look back along the road to where the sign was when you saw it. That's the whole product; it can't work without it.

The coordinate — and the speed and direction that ride with it — answers that one question and is then discarded: it is not written to our database or our logs. The one exception is a wrong-answer report you choose to send, described below. We keep no record of where you have been.

HouseMoney asks for location permission that works while the app is closed, so that "Hey Siri, ask HouseMoney what this house is worth" works from a locked phone. That permission is used for two things: answering an ask you actually made, and — while you're looking at the map of a saved house — showing where you are on it as a dot. The dot is drawn entirely on your phone; your position never leaves the device for it. The app does not sample your location in the background.

A record of the ask — about the house, not about you. When someone asks about a listing, we keep a record of the ask itself: the house's address, what we answered, the asking price we found, whether the asker was walking or driving (worked out from the speed reading), which street they approached from, whether the same phone had asked about that house before, and when. Each of these records is stored under a random ID that is generated fresh for that one event — it is not your device key, not your account, and not shared with any other record, so the records cannot be linked to you or to each other. We keep them because we built HouseMoney to eventually show sellers and their agents how much attention a listing is getting — as counts, never as people.

The "asked before" part is worked out by your phone, not by us — it keeps its own history, and the records we hold can't be compared with each other on purpose. To make it work, an ask carries the few addresses you'd previously asked about near where you're standing, so our server can check them against the house it finds. That list is used for the one comparison and discarded, the same way your coordinate is.

Where you were standing, kept on your phone. Your phone saves the spot you asked from into its own local history, and uses it for one thing: helping the map find the right house when two streets share an address. It stays on the phone. If you back up your history with an account, the backup carries the address and not the coordinate — the sync format has no field for one.

A device key, so we can tell an app from a bot. Your iPhone creates a cryptographic key (Apple's App Attest) that proves requests come from the real HouseMoney app rather than someone scripting our server. We store that key's public half and a count of how many asks it has made today, to enforce a daily limit. This key is generated on your device, is specific to this app, and carries no identifier that Apple or we can trace back to you or your phone.

Usage measurements. The app tells us how it's being used: that onboarding was finished, that an ask worked or failed and how long it took, that someone opened their history, signed in, or reported a wrong answer. These events never include a house — no address, no price, no coordinate. They carry a random ID that the analytics library makes up for your install; we never attach your name, email, or account to it, even when you're signed in. They go to our own analytics system on our own infrastructure — not to Segment, Google, or any other analytics company.

Diagnostics when something breaks. If an ask fails or the app crashes, the app sends us a report of what went wrong — the kind of failure, the technical reason, and for crashes the diagnostic trace Apple's system produces. These reports are tied to the device key so we can tell whether one phone or many are hitting a problem, and they contain no location and no addresses.

If you create an account (optional)

You can use HouseMoney without an account, and most of this section then doesn't apply to you.

Signing in is what turns backup on. You can sign in with Apple or with Google. We ask them only who you are — your name and email address — and nothing else. We never get your password, and we never ask either company for access to anything else in your account.

When you sign in, we store:

• A user record: your name and email address as the provider gave them to us.
• Your ask history, so it survives a lost phone and appears on your next one: for each house you asked about, the address, the price we found, the sentence we spoke, the listing link, a link to the listing's photo when our search found one, and when you asked.

If you use Sign in with Apple and choose "Hide My Email", we never see your real address — Apple gives us a relay alias, and we treat it as exactly what it is.

Signing out deletes the session from our server. Deleting your account deletes your user record and every ask in it, removes the backed-up houses from this phone, and — if you signed in with Apple — tells Apple to revoke the connection. It cannot be undone.

If you report a wrong answer

There's a "Something wrong with this answer?" option on every answer. If you use it, we receive the report: the house we named, what kind of wrong it was, the house you picked as the right one if you picked one, anything you wrote, and where you were and how you were moving when you asked — that last part is what lets us replay exactly what the app saw and fix it. Sending the report is the only way your location reaches us outside of answering an ask, and it happens only because you chose to send one. Like the ask records above, a report is stored under a random one-time ID with no link to you or your device.

What we chose not to collect

Nothing we store about asks is tied to you. This is the part worth being precise about, because it would have been the easy thing to get wrong. The ask records exist so we can count interest in a listing — and we generate a new random ID for every single one precisely so that no chain of them can describe a person. A list of positions and times attached to an identity is a record of someone's movements, and that is a different product from the one we wanted to build.

Your synced history records the house, not the position. Even with an account, your backup carries the street address of each house and deliberately not the GPS position you were standing at. We hold no history of where you have been — only which houses you were curious about.

Without an account, your ask history never leaves your phone. It is not uploaded, we do not have it, and there is nothing in our database that is yours. That is not a policy promise; the history table simply requires a user, and an anonymous ask has none.

Our analytics never learn who you are. The usage measurements described above are never joined to your account — the code doesn't make that link, and the events carry nothing to link on.

Who else sees anything

To find a price, our server takes the street address it derived from your coordinate and searches the public web for that property's listing, using a search provider (DataForSEO) and a language model (via Vercel AI Gateway) to read the result. They receive the address, not your coordinate, and not anything about you. Our server and database run on Vercel and Neon respectively. Our analytics and ask records are stored on infrastructure operated by The Adpharm; HouseMoney itself is operated by its developer personally, and Adpharm processes that data for HouseMoney and nothing else.

When you open a saved house, the app draws a small map of its address using Apple Maps (the MapKit framework built into iOS). Your phone asks Apple directly to locate the address and send the map imagery — the request never touches our server. Apple receives the address, plus a city-sized area hint (about 50 km wide, from the spot saved on your phone) so it resolves the right one when street names repeat.

If you sign in, Apple or Google necessarily knows you signed in to HouseMoney — that is inherent to how signing in with them works. They do not learn anything else about what you do here.

We do not sell data, we do not share it with advertisers, and we show no ads. The app contains no ad or tracking SDKs. It does include one third-party library — Segment's open-source analytics library — and it is configured to talk only to our own servers: its built-in reporting to Segment the company is switched off in code, and no analytics service outside our own infrastructure receives anything.

Children

HouseMoney is not directed at children and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If we change what we collect, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions, or want your device key deleted? Email support@m.askhousemoney.com — deleting the app already orphans the key, and it stops being usable the moment you do.