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Everything you enter stays on this phone. There is no account to create, no server holding your records, no cloud sync, no advertising, no analytics, and no tracking of any kind.
Three things leave, and none of them carries a record of yours. The app downloads published lists — shows, feeds and breeders — so you can add one without typing it out. It loads a sponsor’s logo when you open the breeder directory, from a short fixed list of addresses. And it asks Apple, through RevenueCat, whether this Apple ID has a subscription; that question carries an anonymous identifier and what was bought, and nothing about you, your animals, your names or where you are.
One thing goes to your own Photos library, while you leave that switched on: a photo or video taken with the app’s camera is added there as well as to the animal’s gallery — the original, at full size. The app reads nothing from your library except the pictures you pick yourself. Turn it off under Settings and photos taken in the app stay in the app.
What is stored, and where
Exhibitor details, animals, weights, feed, work sessions, photos and videos, expenses, income, shows, breeding records, and contacts are all saved in a database on this device.
A show you add from the directory is copied into your own records with the details as published, the venue, its street and its ZIP included. They are places rather than people, and nothing about them goes back.
Also stored, because record books ask for them: contacts of several kinds — buyers, supporters, feed and supply businesses, leaders and mentors, veterinarians — each with a mailing address, a farm address, and a log of what was said, noting which exhibitor wrote each entry. Reminders you write in your own words. Sales, including a sale split between several buyers and what each one paid, and the answer to whether a packer bought the animal. Contributions of cash and of goods, and the value you put on them — including the value of your own homegrown feed or an animal you raised yourself, which is yours to set and is never money in or out. Milk records, lactations and test-day results. Egg records. Equipment. How a treatment was given and where on the animal, the time of day it was given, and the meat, milk, and egg withdrawal times from the label. Where you bought a feed. How you acquired an animal, and a market price for it. Which weigh-ins were official. How often an animal is milked, and what you decide a dozen eggs is worth — your figures, never the app’s. Which county record book you keep, and the school year a grade belongs to.
A buyer’s name is copied onto the sale row it belongs to, so that the row still says who paid after the contact itself is deleted. It is the name and nothing else: no phone number, no address and no note is ever copied out of a contact.
Only a name is required for an exhibitor. Date of birth, school, grade, and club are there because record books ask for them, and every one of them is optional.
What leaves the device
Three published lists: the show directory, the feed catalog, and the breeder directory. The app downloads each over a secure connection, when you ask it to and once by itself after an update that changes how a list is read. Every one is a plain download — nothing about you, your animals, or where you are is included in the request, and the app asks for the same file whoever is holding the phone.
A sponsored breeder may have a logo, which is downloaded when you open the breeder directory. Logos can only be fetched from a short fixed list of addresses — the ones the directories themselves come from, and this app’s own website, which is where they are kept. That server can see that a device asked for the picture, the same way any website can when your browser loads an image; the request carries nothing about you, your animals, or where you are, and there is no way for it to tell one reader from another. Logos are never loaded from a breeder’s own website, so being listed here does not let a farm see who is looking.
A subscription check. When the app opens, it asks Apple — through RevenueCat, the service that keeps track of subscriptions for us — whether this Apple ID has bought Pro. That question carries an anonymous identifier this app made up for the device and what was purchased, and nothing else: no name, no exhibitor, no animal, no record of yours, no location. Apple handles the payment itself and never gives us a card number or an address. Nothing you type into this app is ever part of that exchange.
Links you tap. Help opens our guides, support opens your email app, and the forms for adding or correcting a show, a breeder or a feed open in your browser — as does a breeder’s own website, where their listing gives one, and Apple’s page for managing a subscription. Tapping one hands the address over and nothing else — no identifier, no record of yours, nothing about your animals. What that website sees is what any website sees when you visit it, and a breeder’s site is theirs rather than ours.
Anything you deliberately share. Making a record book, sharing an animal summary, or sending a photo hands that file to whichever app you pick, and from that point it is outside this app.
Nothing else. No usage data, no crash reports, no contact lists, no location.
Contacts, and what a report prints of them
Names, phone numbers, email addresses, and addresses you record for buyers, supporters, businesses, leaders and veterinarians are other people’s details. They stay on this device and are never uploaded, but they are still someone else’s information — worth keeping in mind before handing the phone around or sharing a report.
A detailed report and a spreadsheet print a contact’s name, their business, what kind of contact they are, where a buyer has got to, when letters were sent, what was bought or given, and the notes you wrote yourself. They never print a phone number, an email address, any address, a private note, how you know somebody, a photo from the log, or a line the app wrote by itself. A report belongs to one exhibitor and carries only that exhibitor’s own log entries, and a contact whose buying history you have hidden appears in no purchase line.
A breeder you record keeps a mailing address and a farm address, with a ZIP for each, because a county book may ask where an animal came from. County record books print a veterinarian’s and a breeder’s name, address and phone only where that county’s own form asks for them. They never print a buyer, a contributor, or the name of a feed store — where a form asks where a feed was bought, the space is left for you to write in.
Tapping a phone number or email address opens your own Phone or Mail app. This app does not place the call or send the message.
Photos and videos
Media you attach stays on the device with the rest of your records. The app asks for camera and photo access only when you first attach something, and it reads nothing from your library on its own.
Photos are re-saved without their hidden details when you attach them. A photo taken outdoors normally records where it was taken, and that is not something to hand out with a picture of an animal — so the app removes it before the picture is ever stored. The copy the app keeps is also scaled down to no more than 2048 pixels on its long edge, which is more than any screen or record book uses.
With Save photos to your Photos library switched on — it starts on, under Settings — a photo or video you take with the app’s camera is also added to your phone’s own Photos library, as the original at full size, before the app’s own copy is trimmed. That copy is the one your camera made, so it carries whatever your camera records, the same as any picture taken with the Camera app. The app asks once for permission to add pictures, and adding is all that permission lets it do: it reads nothing from your library except the pictures you pick yourself. A picture chosen from your library is already there and is never written back. Switch it off under Settings and photos taken in the app stay in the app. Whichever way the switch is set, the copy the app keeps is still re-saved without its location details and capped at 2048 pixels.
Video is different: the app cannot remove that information from a video, so a clip you share may still carry where it was filmed. You are told this before sharing one.
Reminders
Weigh-in reminders, and the one-time reminders you write yourself, are scheduled by your phone and shown by your phone. No reminder is sent through a server, nothing leaves the device to make one appear, and none of them contains anything beyond what you already entered.
The subscription
Pro is bought through Apple. Apple takes the payment and tells us only whether this Apple ID is entitled; we never see a card number, a billing address, or your Apple ID itself.
RevenueCat holds that entitlement against an anonymous identifier this app generated for the device. It is not your name, your email, or anything you have typed into the app, and it cannot be traced back to a household. Their record is what was bought and when, which is what makes Restore Purchases work on a new phone.
Subscription status is not in a backup file, and nothing about your records is ever sent to Apple or to RevenueCat.
Children and families
The app is built for a household to use together and has no accounts, no logins, and no way for anyone to contact a child through it. There is no messaging, no public profile, no feed, and no way for one family’s records to be seen by another.
Because nothing is collected or transmitted, there is nothing for a parent to request or delete from a server. Removing the app, or using Clear all local data in Settings, removes the records.
Deleting your records
Clear all local data in Settings erases every record on the device. Deleting the app does the same. Neither can be undone, and neither reaches a file you already shared or sent elsewhere.
My Record Book is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by 4-H, the National FFA Organization, USDA, any fair, show, breed association, or school. Always follow the rules your own club, chapter, and show set.
Last updated September 24, 2026.