Rabbit Hole

A calm feed of curious things.

Coming to the App Store

Full-screen cards from Wikipedia, the Met, NASA, iNaturalist, Open Library and Wikimedia Commons, picked by your interests: motorcycles, abandoned places, space, books, films, albums, today in the world, and more.

No likes, no comments, no notifications, no account, no ads. The feed stays partly random on purpose, so it never traps you. When something catches you, press Deeper and follow the thread as far down the hole as you like.

Gestures

Tapread the whole story

Swipe rightsave it for later, export to Markdown

Swipe leftsee less like this — the taste model lives on your phone and is editable

Deeperrelated cards: same artist, author, animal family, category, or Wikipedia’s “more like this”

Pinchlook closer at the photo

Holdopen the source

Privacy Policy

Rabbit Hole is an iOS app that shows a feed of content from public sources. It is built to collect nothing.

What the app does not do

No accounts, no sign-in.
No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking of any kind.
No data is sent to the developer.

What stays on your device

Saved cards and your settings (interests, languages, optional API keys) are stored only on your device. API keys are kept in the iOS Keychain.
The "taste" model — what you swiped left on, saved, opened or lingered on — is a small set of numbers stored only on your device. You can see, edit and reset it in Settings → Taste. It never leaves the phone.
Images are cached on the device to save traffic.

Network requests

To show content, the app talks directly to public APIs: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (Wikimedia Foundation), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NASA (Astronomy Picture of the Day), iNaturalist and Open Library (Internet Archive). These services see your IP address and the request, as any website would. Their own privacy policies apply to those requests. Links you open from a card are shown in an in-app Safari view, which follows Safari's own privacy settings.

Location

If you turn on “Places nearby” in Settings, the app asks for location access. Your location is used only on the device to pick a random spot within 200 km of you and to ask Wikipedia for articles around that spot. The coordinates sent to Wikipedia are of that random spot, not your exact position. The app never stores your location history and never sends it to the developer. You can turn the interest off or revoke the permission in iOS Settings at any time.

Children

The app has no user-generated content and no social features, and is rated 4+.

Contact

Questions about this policy: contact.petrov@icloud.com

Support

Questions or problems with the app? Open an issue at https://github.com/coding-froging/rabbithole-privacy/issues and I will answer there.