Licences & attribution

Beacon is an independent app. Names below are used for attribution only — they do not imply endorsement by Meta, OpenAI, Hugging Face, Apple, or any other third party.

Listed models run on your iPhone after download (sign-in required). We do not send your workbench text or files to those vendors’ cloud APIs for these features.

Apple on-device services

Beacon uses Apple on-device services where available — for example Vision (OCR), Speech (transcription), and Apple Intelligence (optional summaries). These are governed by Apple’s platform terms and your device settings.

Llama 3.2 (Summarise, beta)

Built with Llama

Optional summaries use Meta Llama 3.2 Instruct. Choose a size in Profile → On-device AI:

• Llama 3.2 1B (~770 MB)
• Llama 3.2 3B (~1.9 GB)
• Llama 3.2 8B (~4.6 GB)

Use is subject to the Llama 3.2 Community License and Meta’s Acceptable Use Policy. Meta’s required Notice and licence copy are stored beside the downloaded file on your iPhone.

SmolVLM2 (Understand, beta)

Photo and clip understanding uses SmolVLM2 500M (~700 MB). Developed by Hugging Face, under the Apache License 2.0.

Whisper (Transcribe, beta)

Optional English transcription may use Whisper Base EN (~130 MB). OpenAI Whisper is under the MIT License. Additional notices for bundled components may be included in the download package on your device.

Clean personal data (beta)

PII detection runs on your iPhone. Choose one option in Profile → On-device AI:

• GLiNER PII Small (~60 MB)
• OpenAI Privacy Filter (~760 MB) — on-device weights only; not OpenAI’s cloud API. Licence and notices are in the downloaded package.

Other open-source software

The app includes additional open-source components. Full licence texts are included in the app distribution where required.

For what we collect on our servers (chiefly sign-in identifiers), see our Privacy Policy.