Privacy Policy

What stays on your device

Everything you create in KidScribble lives in the app's own storage on your iPhone:

• Photos of drawings you capture or import
• Voice notes you record
• Captions, favourites and dates
• Each child's name, date of birth and avatar

If you are signed in to iCloud, this is mirrored to the private database of your own iCloud account so it survives losing your phone and appears on your other devices. Apple encrypts it under your Apple Account. It is not a KidScribble server, we hold no copy, and we cannot request one.

If you are not signed in to iCloud, none of it leaves the device at all. The app tells you which of the two is happening, in Settings under iCloud Backup.

Usage analytics

To know which parts of the app people actually use, we send anonymous product events to PostHog, hosted in the European Union.

What an event contains

The name of something that happened and a few technical attributes — for example "a drawing was saved, it had a voice note, it had no caption", or "a video export finished in 6.4 seconds". Device model, iOS version, app version and language come along with it.

What an event never contains

• No images, no audio, no captions
• No child names, dates of birth or avatars
• No name, email or account of yours — we do not ask for any
• No advertising identifier. We do not track you across other apps or websites, and we do not sell or share data with data brokers or advertisers.

Two things we turn off deliberately

• Session replay is disabled. A screen recording of this app is a recording of your child's drawings, so the feature is switched off in code, not merely unused.
• Location enrichment is disabled. Analytics services normally derive a city and coordinates from the IP address of each request. We send a flag that turns that off at the source, so no location is derived or stored.

Automatic screen tracking and tap tracking are off too: they would capture accessibility labels, which in this app can include a child's name.

Permissions the app asks for

• Camera — to photograph a drawing. Frames are processed on the device.
• Photo library — to import a drawing you already photographed, and for Smart Scan, which looks through your library for pictures of drawings. Smart Scan runs entirely on your iPhone using Apple's on-device image analysis. No photo is uploaded for it, and photos it does not find are never touched.
• Microphone — to record a voice note. The recording is written straight to the app's storage.
• Add to photo library — only if you turn on "Auto-save copy to Photos", or save a share you made.

Each one is asked for at the moment it is needed, and refusing it only disables that one thing.

Purchases

KidScribble Pro is an auto-renewing subscription sold by Apple through the App Store. Payment happens entirely inside Apple's systems — we never see your card, your billing address or your Apple Account. The app only asks Apple whether a valid subscription exists, and gets back yes or no.

Children

KidScribble is an app for parents. It is not directed to children, it is not in the App Store Kids Category, it has no public feed, no comments, no messaging and no way for anyone else to see what you save.

A child's name and date of birth exist only so the app can label a drawing and work out how old they were when they made it. You type them, they stay in your own storage, and they are never included in analytics.

Your control over the data

• Export all data — Settings → Storage. Produces an archive of every drawing, voice note and caption, free for everyone, no subscription required.
• Delete all data — Settings → Storage. Removes everything from the device and from your iCloud database.
• Delete the app — removes the local copy. To remove the iCloud copy as well, use Delete all data first, or manage it in iOS Settings → your name → iCloud.

Because the content never reaches us, there is nothing on our side to request, correct or erase. For the anonymous analytics, write to us and we will delete the events associated with your installation.

Contact

Questions about any of this, or a request about your data:

kidscribble.app@gmail.com

If we ever change what is collected, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves.