Météo Parlée writes a daily French weather briefing, answers your weather questions and compares a sky photo with the forecast. This English version mirrors the French policy, which prevails if they differ.
Key points
- No account, no in-app purchases, no ads shown.
- Briefings, questions, saved tips and sky photos are stored in the app on your device. There is no Météo Parlée server.
- Outside services: Open-Meteo (forecasts); Apple (dictation, location, place name); DeepSeek (assistant) and MiniMax (spoken briefing), which are used only after you consent; and AppsFlyer (install-source measurement).
Stored on your iPhone
Question and answer history, saved tips, the sky-observation journal (JPEG plus reading), your 8 latest dictated questions, cached briefings, a log of briefing playbacks, and the active place (name and approximate coordinates).
Location
"While using" permission is requested when you tap "Utiliser ma position" and is reused when you tap "Actualiser" on the home screen. The app takes a single fix accurate to about one kilometre and does not track you in the background. The coordinates go to Apple to look up the town name and to Open-Meteo for the forecast. The resulting place is saved in the app.
Forecasts — Open-Meteo
Open-Meteo receives only the coordinates of the place shown (and, like any server, your IP address).
Assistant — DeepSeek (with consent)
When you ask a question, DeepSeek receives the place name and coordinates, today's briefing, up to 24 hourly slots, up to 3 saved tips and your question. For a sky photo, the photo itself is not sent. The app analyses it on the device and sends only up to 10 visual labels, any readable text, brightness and blue share. Avoid photographing people or documents.
Spoken briefing — MiniMax (with consent)
New in this version. When you tap "Écouter le brief", the French briefing text is sent to MiniMax (api.minimax.chat), which returns audio. The app plays the audio without keeping it. DeepSeek and MiniMax are based in China. By consenting, you explicitly agree to this transfer. Their own policies apply: DeepSeek, MiniMax.
Install measurement — AppsFlyer and ATT
The AppsFlyer SDK (6.18.1) measures which ad or link led to your install. iOS shows its App Tracking Transparency prompt on first launch. If you allow tracking, AppsFlyer may receive your advertising identifier (IDFA) with install and open events. If you decline, it still receives those events with technical data (vendor identifier, IP address, device model, OS and app version), and Apple's SKAdNetwork may be used. Your questions, photos, tips and location are never sent to AppsFlyer, and your choice doesn't change any feature. You can change it under Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking.
Permissions
Camera (sky photo), photo picker (only the chosen image), Photos add-only (sky card export), microphone and speech recognition (dictation, which Apple may process on its servers; no audio file is kept), location while using, and tracking (ATT).
Retention and your rights
Data stays on the device until you delete it or the app, and may be included in your iPhone backups. Sky observations can be deleted in the journal. Turning off AI consent in the app's settings stops sending data to DeepSeek and MiniMax. You may exercise your GDPR rights by writing to bulletin@giboulee.studio or complain to your data protection authority. The app is not intended for children under 15.