Dream Meaning: Lucid Journal, for iPhone and iPad.
The short version. Your dreams are written, kept and read on your iPhone. There is no Lucid account and no Lucid server. The meanings are worked out on the device. If you switch on iCloud, a copy is kept in your own iCloud account, where we cannot see it. Lucid sends anonymous usage and crash reports to Google Firebase, which never contain a dream, a sentence of one, a symbol name or what you called your journal, and which you can switch off in Settings. Nothing is sold, and there is no advertising.
Lucid (com.burakekmen.lucid) is published by Burak Ekmen (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what the app handles, where it goes, and the choices you have. Questions: ekmen.burak@hotmail.com.
Everything you write in Lucid — dreams, their dates, moods, the “lucid” mark, the symbols found in them, their readings, and what you call your journal — is stored in the app’s own storage on your device. It is not sent to us. We do not have a server to send it to, and Lucid does not require an account, a name or an email address.
Your journal is included in your iPhone’s backups, the same as any other app’s data.
A dream’s meaning is worked out on your device: by Apple’s on-device language model where your device supports Apple Intelligence, and otherwise by a symbol library that ships inside the app. Lucid does not use any cloud AI service. Apple’s Writing Tools are switched off in the fields where you write a dream, so that the system does not offer to send that text to Apple’s servers for rewriting.
If you speak a dream instead of typing it, Lucid uses the microphone and Apple’s speech recognition, which runs on your device. The audio is turned into text and is not recorded, stored or sent to us. You can withdraw microphone or speech recognition access at any time in iOS Settings → Lucid.
iCloud is off until you switch it on (Settings → Where it lives → Keep a copy in iCloud; part of the subscription). When it is on, your journal is mirrored through Apple’s CloudKit into the private database of your own iCloud account, so your other iPhones and iPads signed in to the same Apple Account can have it. We cannot access that database. The copy is handled by Apple under Apple’s Privacy Policy. Switching it off stops the copying; the copy already in iCloud can be removed in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
If you ask Siri to add a dream to Lucid, Apple processes the request under Apple’s own privacy policy and hands the words to Lucid, which saves them on your device like any other dream. When the Face ID lock is on, Lucid does not let Siri read entries out of the journal.
The optional lock uses Apple’s Face ID or Touch ID. The biometric check happens entirely inside iOS; Lucid is only told whether it succeeded and never receives your face or fingerprint data. The lock stops someone holding your unlocked phone from opening the journal. It is not encryption, and an unencrypted computer backup still contains your dreams as plain text.
Lucid uses Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics to understand, in aggregate, how the app is used and why it crashes. This is the only data that leaves your device on Lucid’s behalf.
| What is sent | Examples |
|---|---|
| App events | Which screen was opened, which setting was changed, that a dream was saved, and counts sorted into bands (for example “a long dream”, “3 symbols”) |
| Crash reports | The technical record of a crash: stack trace, app version, device model, iOS version |
| Diagnostics | Device model, OS version, app version, language and region |
| An app-instance identifier | A random identifier Firebase creates for this installation. It is not your name, email or Apple Account |
| Approximate location | Country or city, which Google derives from the connection’s IP address |
Never sent: a dream or any sentence of one, a symbol or its name, a reading, the name of your journal, or the date a dream was written. Collection of the advertising identifier is disabled, Lucid does not track you across other companies’ apps or websites, and the data is not linked to your identity.
You can switch all of this off at any time in Settings → What Lucid sends; it stops the moment you do. Firebase is operated by Google under the Firebase privacy information and the Google Privacy Policy. Crash reports are kept by Crashlytics for 90 days; analytics events are kept for the limited period set in Google Analytics’ data retention settings.
If you turn on the morning reminder, Lucid schedules local notifications on your device. We do not send marketing notifications. If iCloud is on, Apple may deliver silent notifications so that changes from your other devices arrive; they carry no content from us.
The subscription is sold and managed by Apple through the App Store. Lucid only learns whether a subscription is active; we never see your payment details. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings.
Lucid is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Because we do not hold your journal or any account, there is nothing about you on a Lucid server to access, correct or delete. For anything related to the anonymous reports described above, or to exercise rights you have under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA, write to ekmen.burak@hotmail.com and we will help.
If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date. If a change affects what leaves your device, the app will say so before it happens.