Privacy policy
Scanthesizer does not collect, store, share or sell any personal data. Everything you scan, and the text read from your scans, stays on your iPhone.
The short version
- No account, no sign-in.
- No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking, no third-party code.
- The app has no networking code. The only thing that goes online is buying Pro, which Apple handles through the App Store.
- Your scans never leave your iPhone unless you choose to share or back them up.
What stays on your iPhone
Scans, the text read from them, their titles, folders and your settings are saved in the app's private storage on your iPhone. The app does not send them anywhere. If you back up your iPhone with iCloud or with a computer, Apple's device backup can include the app's data, under the protections of your own Apple account; Scanthesizer itself plays no part in that.
Reading and sorting your scans
Text is read from your scans with Apple's Vision framework, on the iPhone. Search and the automatic sorting into folders also run on the iPhone. Where your iPhone has Apple Intelligence, the app can ask the system's on-device language model what kind of document a piece of text looks like. That also happens on the iPhone: nothing is sent to Apple or to us, and nothing is kept.
What the app asks to use
- Camera, to scan documents. Pictures are saved only as scans, on your iPhone.
- Face ID or your passcode, if you turn on app lock, to keep your scans private. The app never sees your face data; the system answers yes or no.
- Photos, only the pictures you pick yourself in the system picker. The app is not given access to your library.
When you share or back up
Share a scan as a PDF or as images, or save a backup file, and it goes where you send it: Mail, Messages, Files, AirDrop, iCloud Drive or a folder you choose. From that point it is between you and that destination. Backup files are not encrypted, so keep them somewhere private.
Purchases
Scanthesizer Pro is a one-time in-app purchase. Apple handles the payment and the purchase record; the app learns only whether Pro is unlocked on your Apple account, and receives no personal information.
Children
The app is suitable for all ages and collects no data from anyone, children included.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be on this page with a new date. Because the app collects nothing today, a change would have to come with an update of the app that says so.
Contact
Questions about privacy: guyandamac@gmail.com.