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Saahir Privacy · iOS
See who your apps talk to.
Known trackers, named. Every one visible. You decide what gets through.
Saahir shows you which of your apps contact known trackers — the app, the company, and what they’re likely doing with your data. Known trackers are blocked by default, and nothing is permanent: tap any connection to change it.
Control without guesswork
What Saahir does
Saahir is an iOS app that shows you, per app, which tracking companies your phone is talking to — and puts you in control of what happens to each one.
When Instagram phones home to Meta, when TikTok sends data to ByteDance, when a random flashlight app connects to a dozen ad networks — Saahir names the app, names the company, and groups each tracker connection by what it’s likely doing — advertising, analytics, cross-app tracking, and more.
A personal allowlist
Build a personal allowlist for trackers you’ve decided you trust, so the exception sticks.
A five-minute pause
Pause all filtering for 5 minutes if something isn’t working and you need to check.
Two protective layers
How it works
Saahir combines two protective layers running together on your phone.
01 · FILTER
DNS-level filter
Blocks known trackers system-wide, before the connection is even attempted.
02 · CHECK + SHOW
Content filter + per-app view
Checks every app’s connections and blocks known trackers — the second protective layer. The per-app view shows which of your apps contact which companies, with the publishing company identified directly from Apple’s own signing metadata. No third-party lookup service, no guessing.
You’re never locked into the defaults: tap any connection to block it, unblock it, or leave it as-is — per app or per domain. Your network activity stays on your phone — the one exception is described under Privacy stance below.
◆ About coverage
Saahir attributes ~95% of your device's tracker connections to the specific app that made them (Instagram, TikTok, Safari, and so on). A small remainder — roughly 2–5% — shows up under iOS system services rather than a specific user-installed app: background-widget, media-playback, and App-Store flows, plus System DNS lookups — lookups iOS made on behalf of an app Saahir couldn’t identify. Those are the connections your phone makes on its own behalf rather than an app you opened. We surface both honestly rather than hiding the system-daemon share.
◆ About Apple system traffic
A small, fixed set of Apple’s own infrastructure — App Store purchases, iCloud, push notifications, and Apple’s own StoreKit/SKAdNetwork attribution — is never blocked when it comes from an Apple system process talking to Apple’s own servers. Blocking it would risk breaking iOS itself, including the purchase flow you’d use to subscribe to Saahir. This exception is narrow by design: it only applies when both the sender and the destination are Apple’s own, so trackers riding inside Safari or background notifications are still blocked as usual. We’re disclosing this rather than letting it pass silently.
◆ About apps reaching their own services
A few connections are never blocked because blocking them would break things without protecting you: certificate checks that keep secure connections working, an app reaching websites its own company officially says it owns, and an app, or one of its own widgets, loading its company’s own images and content (for example, the Facebook widget showing Facebook photos). These exceptions only let a company’s own services through. None of them lets a tracker through for another company’s app, and you can still block any of it yourself.
You stay in control
When Saahir gets it wrong
No blocklist is perfect. Occasionally a tracker block will break something you actually wanted — a video that won’t load, a login that hangs. When that happens, you don’t have to wait for an update: tap the connection in the inspector, choose “Unblock,” and it works again immediately. Unblock it once, or add it to your allowlist so Saahir remembers the exception for good.
Designed for reversibility
No permanent lock-ins
Known trackers are blocked automatically. But the block list isn’t the last word — you are. Every action can be reversed at the level that makes sense: by app, by domain, or temporarily across the device.
Privacy by design
Your network activity stays yours.
Saahir is built privacy-first, with on-device processing and a business model that does not depend on profiling you.
Your activity stays on your phone. The only thing Saahir ever sends is a report you choose to send — and that carries exactly two values: the blocked domain and the app. Your subscription is verified on-device by Apple. Rule updates do download from our servers in the background, but that’s the same anonymous tracker list for every user — it carries nothing about you. A future update will add an optional “Explain” feature for Plus subscribers: tapping a tracker for an AI explanation will send only that domain to our servers, deleted within 24 hours. BYOK subscribers’ explanations will go directly from their device to Anthropic instead, never touching our servers. See Availability below.
There are no third-party analytics, telemetry, or advertising SDKs in the app.
Filtering decisions are processed on your device wherever possible.
We do not sell, share, or monetize your data. The app will be funded by paid plans, not by your information.
A preliminary privacy statement is available at Privacy policy; the full policy will accompany the app at launch. Transparency reports are planned.
Coming to the App Store
Availability
Saahir will launch on the App Store as a subscription with a 7-day free trial. Two options at launch:
Saahir Privacy PlusStandard subscription
Your subscription is verified on-device by Apple — no server call. An AI-powered “Explain” feature is planned for a future update; when it ships, Plus subscribers’ explanations will run through Saahir’s Claude proxy, and each request will carry only the domain you tapped, deleted within 24 hours.
Saahir Privacy BYOKBring Your Own Key
A lower-cost subscription for users who’d rather use their own Anthropic API key once “Explain” arrives. Zero Saahir backend contact, ever: your subscription is verified on-device by Apple, and when explanations ship, they’ll go directly from your device to Anthropic using your own key.
Pricing will be announced at launch. At launch, both options include the identical technical stack (per-app inspector + DNS-level filter, plus full block/unblock/allowlist/pause control) — the price difference reflects who covers the AI cost once “Explain” ships, not a feature gap on day one.
Company
About the company
Saahir is developed by AL-BIRR MTA, LLC, a limited liability company registered in the state of Maryland, United States. The company is independently owned and operated. Saahir is its first iOS product.
AL-BIRR MTA, LLC1522 Rawlings Well Rd
Baltimore, MD 21228
United States
Contact
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Status
Saahir is in active development. We expect to launch on the App Store in 2026. For updates or press inquiries, use the contact addresses above.
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