Welcome to Swirl App

What Swirl is, in one paragraph

Swirl is a personal documentation tool for navigating divorce and high-conflict co-parenting. You record voice memos, write notes, track to-dos, and document events involving your co-parent. The app helps you organize all of it with AI-assisted titling, summarization, and tagging — but the records themselves live in your own Google Drive, not on Swirl's servers. Swirl is a thin layer that reads and writes Google files on your behalf using the access you grant at sign-in.

What you'll need before signing in

• A Google account (the one you want your records saved to).
• About 2–3 minutes the first time, while Swirl creates folders, sheets, and docs in your Drive.
• A modern browser. On iPhone we recommend Safari over Chrome — voice recording is more reliable in Safari on iOS.

Why Swirl needs Google access

Swirl uses three Google APIs to do its job. None of these give us access to your other Google data — only to the files Swirl itself creates inside your Swirl App folder.

• Google Drive — to create and own the Swirl App folder, three section subfolders, a media folder for audio and photos, and a markdown file for journal entries.
• Google Sheets — each section has a Data sheet (the canonical record of every note, todo, or event) and a Settings sheet (your categories and tags). These are normal Google Sheets you can open and read at any time.
• Google Docs — for the Notes Journal (every note appended in chronological order) and the Coparenting Summary (a narrative log of events you can share with an attorney).

What gets created in your Drive

Inside a parent folder named Swirl App:

• To-do's/ — Data sheet, Settings sheet, Media folder.
• Notes/ — Data sheet, Settings sheet, Notes Journal doc, notes.md, Media folder.
• Coparenting/ — Data sheet, Settings sheet, Coparenting Summary doc, Media folder.

You can open any of these directly from Help via the live Drive links shown there.

What lives on Swirl's servers (Supabase)

Swirl stores a small profile record per user. That record contains only:

• Your email address.
• Drive file IDs (so Swirl knows where in your Drive to write).
• A handful of preferences — your situation tags for the resources page, Craft sync targets if you set them up, and a flag for whether you've seen this welcome page.

No notes, transcripts, photos, audio, or co-parent records are stored on our side. If you delete your Swirl App Drive folder, the records are gone — Swirl has no separate copy.

Removing Swirl's access later

You can revoke Swirl's access to your Google account at any time from Google Account → Security → Third-party apps. Once revoked, the Swirl App folder and its contents stay in your Drive — they belong to you. Delete them manually if you no longer want them.