Nodeno — Privacy
Nodeno asks only what a forecast needs
Nodeno asks only what a forecast needs
and keeps nothing.
A weather app has to ask somewhere what the weather is, so this one cannot claim that nothing leaves your phone. What it can claim is that only what a forecast needs leaves, it goes only to the services that answer, and none of it comes back to me. The rest of this page is the detail behind that, written out plainly so you can check it rather than take my word.
In detail
Eleven points · no exceptions hidden in them
01
What leaves your phone, and where it goes
Three things, each only when it is needed. To get a forecast, a latitude and longitude goes to Open-Meteo. When you search for a city, the name you type goes to Open-Meteo’s place search to find it. And if you turn on your current location, your coordinates go to Apple’s own location service so the list can show the name of where you are. That is the entire outbound traffic of this app.
02
Nothing comes back to me
I do not run a server. There is no account, no sign-in, and no analytics of any kind. Your requests go from your phone straight to those services, and I never see that they happened.
03
Location is optional and refusable
Nodeno asks for your location once, to put where you are at the top of the list. Say no and the app works normally on the cities you save by name — nothing is disabled, nothing nags you again.
04
Where your cities actually live
In two small files inside the app’s own storage on your device, shared with its home-screen widget and nothing else. One holds your city list and your settings. The other holds the last forecast fetched for each city, so the app has something to show before the network answers.
05
What Open-Meteo and Apple receive
Open-Meteo gets a coordinate and the list of measurements being asked for, or the text of a city search. Apple gets your coordinates only if you turned on your current location. Neither gets your name, a device identifier, or an account from Nodeno, because the app has none of those to send. Open-Meteo is an independent weather service with its own privacy policy, and apart from Apple it is the only outside service this app contacts.
06
No tracking, no ads, no third parties
No advertising identifier, no tracking across apps or websites, no measurement tools, and no third-party code bundled into the app. There is nothing in Nodeno that profiles you, because there is nothing in it that knows who you are.
07
The one exception, and you have to choose it
If you fill in the support form on this site, what you type — and an email address, only if you give one — reaches my inbox. That is a form on a web page you chose to open, not something the app does.
08
Your backups are yours
If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or to a computer, that backup includes Nodeno’s files, the same as any other app. That backup is Apple’s and yours — it is not sent to me and I cannot see it.
09
Deleting the app deletes the data
There is no copy held anywhere else, so removing Nodeno removes your city list and everything it had cached. Nothing of yours survives somewhere I could return to you, because nothing of yours was ever anywhere but your phone.
10
Children
Nodeno has no account and collects nothing about anyone, which includes children. There is nothing for a parent to request, correct, or delete from me.
11
If this ever changes
A version of Nodeno that sent anything more than this, or sent it anywhere else, would be a different promise. This page would say so before that version shipped, with the date below changed.
Questions about any of this: kyle@kylecsheridan.com, or the support form.
Last updated 12 September 2026. Applies to Nodeno for iOS.