What the app stores
Everything in Shiso is something you entered or chose: ingredients with their categories, units, stores and notes; recipes with their ingredients, steps, tags, notes and photos; meal plans and the dishes in them; the name and cuisines in your profile; and your settings. The app adds one thing of its own: usage statistics.
| Data | This device | Your iCloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ingredients and stores | No | ||
| Recipes, steps, tags and dish photos | No | ||
| Meal plans and dishes | No | ||
| Your profile: name and cuisines | No | ||
| Default plan length, week start and intro status | No | ||
| Shopping list ticks | No | No | |
| App language, kitchen sort and dish card options | No | No | |
| First-run guide progress | No | No | |
| Usage statistics and install IDs | No |
The iCloud column applies only when iCloud is available for Shiso. The Google column applies only where the app sends usage statistics, as Usage statistics explains. Like other app data, what’s on your iPhone can be part of your own device backups.
iCloud sync
If you’re signed in to iCloud, Shiso syncs the data above through Apple’s CloudKit, in the private database of your own iCloud account, so it’s there on your other devices and after a reinstall. It counts toward your iCloud storage.
The developer can’t read this database, and Shiso runs no cloud service of its own. Apple stores the data under its own terms and privacy policy.
Dish photos and the camera
You can add a photo to a recipe. The camera opens only when you tap Take photo, and iOS asks for your permission the first time. Choose photo uses Apple’s photo picker, so Shiso gets only the photo you pick and can’t reach the rest of your library.
Shiso keeps only the square you crop, at most 600 pixels wide, saved as a new JPEG without the original photo’s location or other metadata. It’s stored with the recipe and syncs like the rest of it.
Your profile
Your profile is the name you write and the cuisines you love. You can fill it in after the intro pages or later under Profile in Settings, or leave it empty. It’s stored and synced like the rest of your data, so the developer can’t see it.
Shiso shows the name and cuisines in your profile, and puts the name on dish cards while Show your name is on. It uses them nowhere else.
Sharing a dish or your list
Share this dish, on a recipe, makes a dish card: a picture of the dish in one of four layouts. A card shows the dish on its plate, with its photo if it has one, and its name, and can show its cooking time and how many times you’ve cooked it. Depending on the layout, it also lists the ingredients and their amounts, or the steps. Its footer names Shiso.
If your profile has a name, the card puts it before the dish’s name, as in Lin’s Tomato and Egg, unless you turn off Show your name. The card also carries a QR code unless you turn off Show QR code. The code holds only the address of Shiso’s page on the App Store, https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788616705, and nothing about you or the dish.
Shiso makes the card on your iPhone and doesn’t upload it anywhere. Share hands it to the iOS share sheet as an image file named after the dish, and it goes only where you send it. Save to Photos adds it to your photo library. iOS asks for your permission the first time, and that permission lets Shiso add photos, not see them. Share list on the shopping page hands the text of your list to the share sheet in the same way. Sharing and saving count in the usage statistics, never with the card or what’s on it.
Usage statistics
Starting with version 2.0, Shiso uses Google Analytics for Firebase, a Google service, to count how many installs are active each day and month and how often each feature gets used. The developer uses these numbers to decide what to improve, and for nothing else. Google’s SDK is the only third-party SDK in the app.
What the app reports. These actions and nothing else, some with a fixed option or a small number:
- Which tab you open
- Finishing or skipping the intro pages and the first-run guide, and each step of the guide you complete
- Creating a recipe or adding a dish photo
- Adding an ingredient, and whether you did it in Kitchen or while adding ingredients to a recipe
- Starting a plan, and its length in days
- Adding dishes to a meal, with which meal, how many dishes, and whether from the meal picker or Add to plan
- Marking a dish done, ticking a shopping item, tapping Share list and changing how the list is grouped
- Switching to the recipe palette or the calendar’s month view
- Using Spin or starting a search, and on which page
- Picking a layout on Share this dish, and which one
- Tapping Save to Photos on Share this dish, with the layout and whether the card shows the QR code
- Using Share on Share this dish, with the layout, whether the card shows the QR code and where the card went: Instagram, Threads, X, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, WeChat, Messages, Mail, AirDrop, Save Image, Copy or Save to Files; “other” for any other app, without its name; or nowhere, if you close the share sheet
Google’s SDK also records some things by itself: when the app is first opened, each session and how long the app is on screen, and app and iOS updates. It also records your device model, iOS version, app version, device language, the store the app came from and your approximate location (city, region and country). Google estimates that location from your IP address, and says Google Analytics doesn’t log or store the address itself. Shiso doesn’t use Location Services.
What it never sends. The names of your dishes, ingredients or stores, quantities, notes, steps, photos, dish cards, the name and cuisines in your profile, or anything you type, searches included. Shiso has no account, so there’s no email address or Apple ID to send.
Identifiers. The SDK uses two random IDs made for each install: an App Instance ID and a Firebase Installation ID. Deleting the app resets both. With no accounts, the numbers count installs, not people: two devices count twice.
Who gets it and how long it’s kept. The data goes to Google’s servers, which may be outside your country or region. Google is the only third party that receives it. Google handles it under the Google Analytics terms and its privacy policy, which give it the same protection as this policy. How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services explains more. The developer has turned off the settings that would let Google use this data for its own products or add it to its benchmarks.
The developer sees reports, both totals and activity by install ID, and nothing in them says who you are. Google Analytics is set to delete data tied to an install ID within about 14 months of that install’s last use. Totals in standard reports aren’t affected by that setting and can stay longer.
Where nothing is sent. If your App Store country or region is in the European Economic Area, the UK, Switzerland or mainland China, the app never starts the SDK and sends nothing. The same goes for any launch when the app can’t tell which store it’s on.
Turning it off. The app has no setting to turn this off. To stop it, delete the app.
Ads and tracking
Shiso shows no ads and doesn’t sell your data. It doesn’t track you across other companies’ apps or websites, so it doesn’t show Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. The Google SDK’s advertising features are off: no ad storage, no ad personalization and no registration with Apple’s ad attribution. Shiso doesn’t collect Apple’s advertising identifier (IDFA) or identifier for vendors (IDFV).
Diagnostics from Apple
If you’ve chosen to share analytics with app developers in your device’s settings, Apple may provide crash reports and usage statistics through its developer tools. They’re used to fix problems and improve reliability. App Store Connect also shows the developer overall numbers such as downloads and sessions.
That setting covers only what Apple collects, not the Google Analytics data above. Crash reports come only through Apple.
Your choices
You can edit your ingredients, recipes, dishes and profile in the app at any time. You can delete ingredients and recipes, delete a dish on any day, past days included, and cancel a plan that hasn’t ended, which leaves its dishes on their days.
Two things stay on purpose, so your history holds up. A plan that has ended can’t be canceled, and a recipe used in a past meal is hidden from your library rather than erased.
To remove everything, open Settings in Shiso and tap Delete all data. It clears your ingredients, recipes, plans and profile from this device and from iCloud, and from your other devices on the same iCloud account. Deleting the app only removes its data from that iPhone, and what’s in iCloud comes back if you install it again. To stop syncing only, turn off iCloud for Shiso in iOS Settings.
Delete all data also resets the App Instance ID on this device, so the app counts as a new install from then on. It doesn’t remove usage statistics already sent, which expire as described above. There’s no account and the app doesn’t show its IDs, so the developer can’t tell which statistics are yours or look them up for you.
Children
Shiso is a general cooking and meal-planning app. It isn’t directed to children and doesn’t knowingly collect personal information from children.
This website
This website uses no cookies, analytics or advertising, and its fonts are served from the site itself. It remembers your language and your light or dark choice in your browser. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, and GitHub logs visitors’ IP addresses for security, as the GitHub Privacy Statement describes.
Changes
This policy changes when what Shiso does with data changes. If a future version sends new kinds of data, or adds anything like ads, accounts or online features, this page will say so before that version ships, and the date at the top will change.
November 8, 2026: the app’s English name changed from Mise to Shiso.
November 8, 2026: added the profile, recipe steps and dish cards that version 2.0 brings, with the usage statistics for dish cards; said that dishes on past days can be deleted; made email the first way to reach us.
November 6, 2026: added the usage statistics that version 2.0 sends to Google Analytics.
Contact
For privacy questions or anything else, email us. The developer gets your address and your message, and uses them only to answer you.
You can also open a GitHub issue instead. Issues are public, so leave out anything private.