Global Policy Tracker support

Contact support

Email maximaastra@gmail.com. Include your app version, operating-system version, the affected official source link and what happened. Do not include confidential notes unless needed. Published by Maxima Astra, Mileta Avramović.

Start with what matters

Choose your countries and interests, then follow a file from Today or Search. Add a supported official reference to find a record directly. Open the official source to verify its status before relying on it.

Monitor any country

Choose any country or territory in Countries & topics. Countries & sources distinguishes built-in feeds, user-added feeds and countries with no connected source. Add a public HTTPS RSS or Atom feed for any country, preview its records, then connect it. A feed must provide record links on its own host. Selecting a country does not create automatic legal coverage. User-added publisher identity is not independently verified, and the app does not infer legal deadlines from feed publication dates.

Turn monitoring into a decision

Open Workspaces for your clients and matters. Keep each client’s position, priority, assessment and assigned actions together. Choose a workspace when creating an action; unassigned personal actions stay separate. Personal dates are separate from official legal deadlines.

Keep stakeholder and meeting records

In Workspaces → Stakeholders, add user-entered contact details and related policies. Record a meeting, notes and outcome, then create a policy-linked follow-up. Archiving a stakeholder keeps their interaction history. These private records are not a verified contact database and are not uploaded automatically.

Prepare a client or PR brief

In Workspaces → Briefs, save a draft using a monitoring, executive update, client impact, spokesperson Q&A or consultation template. Choose its policies and date range, add your commentary and review the result before exporting. Private act notes, client assessments and open actions have separate inclusion controls. A client brief excludes other-client and unassigned actions; task notes and stakeholder records are not included automatically.

Read with the evidence nearby

Open a file to read its source, timeline, available text and recorded versions. Downloaded structured original text stays available offline. A downloaded original is not proof that no amendments or later decisions exist. Summary and reference labels explain the limits of the information.

Read public PDFs inside the app

Tap a PDF attachment to read, zoom, search or jump to a page. The document menu offers its source link, sharing, a fresh download and selectable page text. Explain this page attaches the extracted text to Ask for you to review; opening the PDF does not send it to AI. Scanned pages may have no selectable text. Downloads are limited to 25 MB each. Saved copies remain available for up to 30 days within an 80 MB cache; the saved date is visible, and the system may purge cached files. Remove a copy in the document menu or use Settings → Clear saved PDFs.

Prepare a consultation response

Use Calendar to find public consultations and sourced opening or closing dates. Serbia’s eKonsultacije source includes published proposals, attached documents and available public comments. Open the official participation link to check requirements and submit. Private response drafts in the app are not posted automatically. Use Draft, In review and Ready to track your work. After submitting on the official portal, confirm the submission and save its receipt/reference. The app records your confirmation and a submitted-text snapshot; it does not independently verify submission. Conflicting imported submission snapshots remain available in response history.

Choose an Ask provider

Ask starts with Apple Intelligence on device. Use AI providers to choose ChatGPT or a configured Claude Shortcut for conversation and policy writing tools. Selecting a provider alone sends no question. Sending with a cloud provider shares a bounded current message, recent chat text and selected source or PDF-page context. Private workspace notes and tasks are not added automatically, but anything you wrote or pasted into recent messages may be sent. All answers are drafts to review against the official record; Ask does not browse the web or verify current law.

Connect ChatGPT in Ask

In AI providers, choose ChatGPT, then Continue with ChatGPT. Sign in and review OpenAI’s plan-use permission, then choose a model from the account’s available list. Eligible Plus or Pro access and usage limits apply. This connection does not read your existing ChatGPT chats. Credentials stay in this device’s Keychain and are excluded from workspace backups. Manage ChatGPT usage opens your allowance controls; Disconnect this account removes local access and attempts remote sign-out. The app reports when remote sign-out cannot be confirmed. There is no automatic switch to separate API billing if a limit is reached. Your draft remains available after an error.

Set up Claude via Shortcuts

Install and sign in to Claude. In Shortcuts, create a shortcut with the name shown in AI providers. Add Ask Claude with Shortcut Input as its prompt, then return the answer as plain text using Stop and Output. Run the shortcut yourself, inspect its actions, and only then mark it configured in Policy Tracker. Select Claude via Shortcuts and send to hand the request to Shortcuts and return the result to the chat. Claude’s account model, limits and privacy settings apply. The app cannot verify what a custom shortcut does. Anthropic documents this action on iOS; configure it on Mac only if that Mac actually offers the action and your shortcut works there. See Claude’s Shortcuts guide.

If no result returns, check that the shortcut returns plain text and that Claude is signed in. Stop cancels the pending request; a timeout preserves your question. If the selected text is too large for the system handoff, use a shorter excerpt or a new chat.

Use Apple’s Writing Tools

Writing Tools remains separate from the Ask provider, including supported free-account ChatGPT access. Review your draft, open Writing Tools and choose Compose in Apple’s interface. You control what is sent and whether to keep the edit. The system handles account connection, availability and limits; this route gives the app no login credentials or API key. Check Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT in device settings. See OpenAI’s setup instructions. Selected content may leave the device under system and account privacy settings.

Keep and manage your chats

Ask saves chats, unsent messages, writing drafts and attached source excerpts locally after you close the app. Open history to revisit, rename, delete or export a chat as text. Starting a new chat keeps the previous one. A stopped answer stays stopped when reopened; retry it if needed. History does not sync between devices. Workspace JSON backups exclude chats and writing drafts, so export individual chats separately before deleting local data. Chat text exports cannot be imported as chat history. System device or computer backups may include saved chats, depending on your settings. Chats closed in older, memory-only versions cannot be recovered.

If Ask reports that history could not be saved, keep the app open and export the current chat before closing. The app keeps the previous saved file and does not silently remove older chats to make room. Saved excerpts may be outdated; verify the current official source before relying on an answer.

Why does a source show a warning?

Official services can be delayed, temporarily unavailable, or change their format. The app keeps previously saved records and shows the last successful check and coverage. Use the official link when you need the authoritative record. A successful check covers only the documented adapter, not every law or every amendment in that country.

How live are updates?

The app checks when opened, on return to the foreground, when you pull to refresh and periodically while active. On iPhone and iPad, background checks are scheduled by iOS and are not guaranteed at a specific time. The Mac app checks while it is running; closing it stops its monitoring. Source publication frequency also matters. This app does not provide a continuously connected server push service.

How do reminders work?

Enable source-change alerts explicitly in Settings. The first source sync is silent; later observed changes on followed files and keyword matches can produce local notifications. An explicit official deadline reminder or personal task reminder asks for system permission. Notification timing and Focus behavior are controlled by the operating system. Change alerts are grouped to reduce interruptions.

Where is my data saved?

Client workspaces, notes, actions, contacts, meetings, briefs, consultation records, evidence, decisions and Ask history are saved locally. No publisher account is required. A cloud provider receives only what you choose to send through it; see the privacy policy. Workspace JSON backups include workspace data but exclude Ask chats, unsent messages, writing drafts and AI credentials. Use backup export and restore to move workspace data between supported devices, and export individual chats separately as text. Connect AI accounts separately on each device. Restore preserves conflicting workspace copies and consultation submission history. There is no automatic cross-device sync or shared team workspace.

How do I delete my data?

Use the personal-data deletion action in Settings after exporting a workspace backup and any chats you want to keep. It clears local work, Ask history and drafts, AI connection settings and ChatGPT credentials, and cancels notifications. You can also delete individual chats, or disconnect ChatGPT in AI providers without deleting the workspace. Remote sign-out is attempted; the app reports if it cannot confirm it. Exported files, system backups and content already sent to an AI service must be managed at their destinations. On Mac, deleting the application alone may leave Application Support data; clear your work in the app before uninstalling.

Why is the iPhone/iPad widget empty?

The widget shows upcoming confirmed official dates from files you follow. Starter reference dates and unconfirmed dates do not appear. Open the app after changing follows, then allow iOS time to refresh the widget.

Accessibility and language

The app uses native controls and system text sizes, supports light and dark appearance, and labels actions in text. Use system accessibility and text-size controls when needed. The interface is English; source documents retain their original languages. Automatic legal translation is not supplied.

A note about legal information

Global Policy Tracker is independent of the government bodies whose records it links. It provides source-linked information and a private work space, not legal advice, a certified audit trail, a guarantee of complete coverage, or an authoritative statement of current law.