Last updated: April 19, 2026
Overview
Kiwi Car AI ("Kiwi", "we", "our") is a voice-first iPhone and CarPlay app for AI-assisted driving questions. Kiwi uses a backend service for session management, entitlement checks, request routing, and usage metering. Kiwi does not sell your personal data, does not use advertising tracking, and does not run server-side conversation or memory sync by default.
What Stays on Your iPhone
Kiwi keeps the following information locally on your device by default:
- Conversations: Your conversation history is stored in the app's local storage on your iPhone.
- Memories: Notes that you save with Kiwi Memory stay on your iPhone.
- Install-bound Kiwi service session: Kiwi stores an install-bound Kiwi service session in the iPhone Keychain so the service can recognize this installation, refresh access when needed, and check entitlement state.
- App preferences: Settings such as your location-sharing preference, onboarding completion, and debug preferences are stored locally on your device.
How Kiwi Processes Requests
When you ask Kiwi a question, Kiwi sends the current request and the conversation context needed to answer it through Kiwi's backend service to OpenAI. Kiwi uses the backend service to authenticate the request, apply entitlement checks, meter completed turns, and return the response to your iPhone.
- OpenAI acts as Kiwi's model provider for request processing.
- OpenAI's privacy policy applies to model-processing data: https://openai.com/privacy
- Kiwi does not provide a normal mode that asks you to paste your own OpenAI API key.
- Kiwi does not sync your full conversation history or memory notes to Kiwi's backend by default.
What Kiwi's Backend Stores
Kiwi's backend stores the minimum server-side information needed to operate the service. This includes:
- Session and entitlement data: Anonymous install and session records, entitlement state, and billing-period status.
- Metadata-only usage analytics: Request type, model, request profile, token counts when OpenAI returns them, cost metadata, durations, web-search usage, and related operational metadata.
- Aggregate rollups: Longer-lived user and global usage summaries derived from metadata-only events.