HouseMoney — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-07-15

HouseMoney tells you what the house in front of you is worth. This policy explains what that costs you in data. The short version: we never store your location, we don't track you, and an account is optional — without one, nothing you do in the app leaves your phone at all.

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 — is used to answer that one question and is never written to our database or our logs. We keep no history of where you have been or how you were moving. Our server stores no coordinates whatsoever — not anonymized, not aggregated, not "for analytics later."

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 only to answer an ask you actually made. The app does not sample your location in the background.

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.

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, 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.

What we chose not to collect

Your coordinate is never stored — not even in your account's backed-up history.

This is the part worth being precise about, because it would have been the easy thing to get wrong. Your saved history records the house — its street address — and deliberately not the GPS position you were standing at when you asked. The sync format has no coordinate field and our database has no column for one. We could have stored it (it would have made one small feature slightly easier), and we didn't, because a list of exact positions and times attached to your name is a record of your movements, and that is a different product from the one we wanted to build.

So even with an account, 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 at all. 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.

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.

When you open a saved house, the app draws a small map of its address using Apple Maps (the MapKit framework built into iOS). To do that, your phone asks Apple to locate the address and to send the map imagery — Apple receives the address, exactly as if you had looked it up in the Maps app, and we are not involved: that request goes from your phone to Apple, never through our server. It is the saved address being mapped, not your position — the app has no record of where you were standing to draw from.

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, we show no ads, and HouseMoney contains no third-party tracking or analytics SDKs of any kind. (Not as a policy commitment — the app links zero third-party packages, and that includes Google's: signing in with Google uses Apple's own system browser and the public OAuth standard, not Google's SDK. There is nothing in the app that could phone home.)

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 ben@theadpharm.com — deleting the app already orphans the key, and it stops being usable the moment you do.