Privacy Policy

Last updated 14 September 2026

Who this covers

This policy explains how the PicBop app ("PicBop", "we", "us") handles information when you use it on your iPhone. It applies to the app and this website.

Your photos stay on your device

PicBop is a local photo-cleaning utility. When you grant photo access, the app reads your library only on your device to show you photos and videos to review. We do not upload, copy, back up, or transmit your photos or their contents anywhere. There is no PicBop server that can see them.

• No cloud storage of your media.
• No account or sign-in.
• Nothing about the content of your photos is sent to us or to third parties.

Photo access & permissions

iOS asks your permission before PicBop can see any photos. You can grant full access or limited access (only the photos you pick), and you can change or revoke this at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos. With limited access, PicBop can only work with the photos you selected.

How deletion works

Swiping left only marks a photo for review — nothing is removed yet. You confirm a batch on the review screen before anything is deleted. When you confirm, PicBop asks iOS to move those items to your Photos app's Recently Deleted album, where you can recover them for a limited time. Space is only reclaimed once Recently Deleted is emptied. PicBop cannot permanently erase photos on your behalf.

What we do (and don't) collect

We don't require any personal information to use PicBop. We do not sell your data and we never collect the contents of your photos. Two services receive limited, photo-free events from the app, and one of them only ever runs if you allow tracking — both are described below.

• On-device stats (like swipes today or space cleared) are stored locally on your iPhone for your own dashboard.
• Product analytics — to understand which features are used and to fix problems, PicBop sends product-interaction events (for example, a session completed or the paywall opened) to our analytics provider, PostHog, processed on servers in the European Union. These are tied to a random identifier generated on your device, not to your name, email or Apple Account, and are never used to follow you into other apps or websites. Session replay, screen recording and automatic tap capture are switched off. No photo, filename or photo identifier is ever included.
• Diagnostics, if you opt in through iOS, may share anonymous crash and performance data via Apple to help us fix bugs. This never includes your photos.
• Support emails you send us contain whatever you choose to write. Please don't attach private photos.

Ads and campaign measurement

We advertise PicBop on TikTok, and we need to know which ads actually lead somewhere. To measure that, the app includes the TikTok Business SDK. Because this is tracking as Apple defines it, iOS asks you first:

• If you decline the tracking prompt — or never answer it — the SDK is never started and sends nothing. The app works exactly the same.
• If you allow it, TikTok receives your install and app launches, plus four moments: finishing onboarding, completing a sorting session, starting a Pro trial or subscription, and restoring a purchase.

These are sent as event names only, with no properties attached — no photo, no filename, no email, no phone number, and nothing about what you kept or deleted. We have also turned off the SDK's automatic collection of screen labels, taps and view hierarchies. TikTok may combine what it receives with its own data about you, under TikTok's privacy policy. You can change your answer at any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Place names

If you browse your library by place, PicBop reads the location your camera already stored in each photo — never your current location — and asks Apple's geocoding service for the name of the area, so a group can be called "Osaka" instead of a pair of coordinates. Coordinates are rounded into broad areas before being sent, resolved names are cached on your iPhone, and no photo leaves your device.

Purchases

PicBop Pro is sold through Apple's App Store, as a weekly or annual subscription or as a one-time lifetime purchase. We never see your card details. Apple processes the payment and shares only what's needed to deliver and restore your purchase, under Apple's own privacy terms. To verify and restore your purchase across your devices we use a purchase-management service, RevenueCat, which processes purchase and transaction data only — never your photos.

Children

PicBop is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If we update this policy, we'll revise the date above and, for meaningful changes, note it in the app. Continuing to use PicBop means you accept the current version.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Email picbop.app@jiyuu.tech or use the contact page.