Privacy Policy

Effective 22 October 2026 · Applies to StillFree for iPhone, version 1.0

StillFree keeps track of free trials you tell it about. It has no server, no account system, and no analytics. This page describes exactly what the app holds, where it is held, and what does and does not leave your iPhone.

The short version

• StillFree has no backend of its own. There is no StillFree server that receives, stores, or processes your information.
• Everything you enter is stored on your iPhone, in StillFree’s own storage area, and syncs through your own iCloud account when you are signed in to one.
• Images you import — a screenshot you share or pick, or a photo you take — are read on the device using Apple’s Vision framework, and the image itself is not saved by StillFree.
• Reminders are local notifications scheduled by iOS on your iPhone. No reminder is sent through a push server.
• There are no analytics, no advertising identifiers, and no third-party SDKs in the app.
• The app works with no network connection and contacts no server of ours — because there isn’t one. The only network use is iCloud sync, performed by iOS between your device and your own iCloud account.

The sections below set out the detail, including the two narrow cases where information does leave the device — both of which you trigger deliberately.

Who is responsible

StillFree is published by the developer identified on the app’s App Store listing, who is the data controller for the purposes of this policy. Contact details are at the end of this page.

What StillFree holds

All of the following is created by you, either by typing it or by confirming an imported screenshot. None of it is gathered in the background.

Trial records

For each trial you track, StillFree stores: the service name; the trial end date; optionally a start date; optionally the price that applies after the trial and its currency and billing period; the status you have given it (active, cancelled, kept, or expired) and, once you mark it cancelled or kept, when you did; whether you added it by hand or imported it; which reminders you chose; optionally a management or cancellation web address you saved; optionally a free-text note; and the dates the record was created and last changed. Each record also carries a random identifier generated on your device, used only to match the record to its scheduled reminders.

The free-text note is yours to use as you wish. Because it accepts anything you type, please do not put card numbers, passwords, or other sensitive credentials into it — StillFree never needs them.

Your preferences

StillFree stores your default reminder days, the time of day reminders should arrive, your default currency, and your light or dark appearance choice. These sit alongside your trial records on the device.

What StillFree does not hold

StillFree does not ask for and does not have: your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, postal address, contacts, calendar, location, health data, photos other than a single screenshot you choose to import, card or bank details, or any login for any other service. It has no user account, so it holds no credentials of any kind.

Where it is stored

Your trials and preferences are stored in StillFree’s shared app group container on your iPhone. This is a private storage area belonging to StillFree, which the app, its widgets, and its share extension can read, and which other apps cannot. It is protected by iOS file-level data protection and by your device passcode and encryption.

Your trials also sync through your own iCloud account. They are held in your account’s private CloudKit database, which belongs to you: Apple stores it for you, and StillFree’s developer cannot read it, list it, or recover it. There is still no StillFree server anywhere in this — the sync runs between your devices and your own account.

If you are not signed in to iCloud, or you turn iCloud off for StillFree in iOS Settings, the app keeps working exactly as before with everything held on the device. You can confirm which of the two is happening at any time: open Settings → Your data, which reports where your records actually are and when they last synced, rather than where they are supposed to be.

Your iPhone’s own encrypted device backup — whether to iCloud or to a computer — may include StillFree’s stored data, in the same way it includes data from your other apps. That backup is made by Apple under your control and under Apple’s privacy policy. StillFree has no access to it.

Sync was added in this version. It was described here before it shipped, the app’s Your data section reports it, and the effective date at the top of this page changed with it — which is the procedure this policy promises for any later change too.

Photos and text recognition

StillFree can read the details of a trial from an image. This happens in one of three ways, each of which you start:

• you share an image to StillFree from another app’s share sheet;
• you tap the import button in StillFree and pick one image; or
• you tap the import button and photograph an offer with the camera.

StillFree does not have access to your photo library. When you pick an image, iOS presents its own picker outside the app and hands StillFree only the single image you selected. StillFree never sees anything else in your library, and the app therefore never asks for photo library permission.

Using the camera asks for your permission first — iOS presents that request, and StillFree cannot see the camera until you grant it. A photo taken this way is used for the import and nothing else: it is not written to your photo library, not kept by StillFree, and discarded on the same terms as any other imported image. You can withdraw camera access at any time in iPhone Settings, and the rest of the app carries on working without it.

The selected image is held in memory, scaled down, and passed to Apple’s Vision framework, which performs the text recognition on your iPhone. The recognised text is then matched against StillFree’s own built-in patterns for service names, dates, durations, and prices, also on the device. No image and no recognised text is sent anywhere.

The image is not retained. It is shown to you as a small thumbnail on the review screen so you can check the extracted details against the source, and it is discarded when you leave that screen. StillFree does not write the image to disk, does not attach it to the saved trial, and does not keep a copy after the import finishes. The recognised text is not stored either — only the specific values you confirm on the review screen become part of a trial record.

Reminders and notifications

Reminders are local notifications. StillFree asks iOS to show a notification at a date and time calculated on your device, and iOS delivers it from your device. No reminder is routed through a push service, and no reminder text ever leaves your iPhone. Reminders keep working with no network connection at all.

One related detail, stated plainly because the distinction matters: iCloud sync uses Apple’s push service to tell your device, silently, that something changed on another one. That is Apple’s infrastructure carrying a “look again” signal for your own account — it carries no trial data, it shows you nothing, and it is unrelated to the reminders above. It stops entirely if you turn off iCloud for StillFree.

The notification text is composed on the device and contains the service name and, if you entered one, the post-trial price — for example, “Lightroom trial ends tomorrow”. Because notifications can appear on the Lock Screen, you may want to use iOS’s own Lock Screen preview settings if you would rather those details stayed hidden until unlocked.

Notification permission is optional. If you decline it, StillFree still tracks and displays your trials; it simply cannot warn you.

Widgets

StillFree’s Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets read your active trials from the same on-device storage and render them on your device. Widget content is not transmitted anywhere. Note that a Lock Screen widget will display trial names and countdowns on a locked device.

When information leaves your iPhone

Apart from iCloud sync, which carries your own records to your own account, StillFree contacts nothing. There are exactly two situations in which acting inside StillFree hands something to another party, and both are opened by you, one tap at a time:

Analytics, tracking, and advertising

There are none. StillFree contains no analytics SDK, no crash-reporting SDK, no advertising SDK, and in fact no third-party code of any kind — it is built entirely on Apple’s own frameworks. It does not collect the advertising identifier, does not use the identifier for vendors, does not build a profile of you, and does not track you across apps or websites. It never presents the App Tracking Transparency prompt, because it has nothing to ask for.

Crash reports and diagnostics

StillFree contains no crash-reporting service. It writes a small number of technical error entries to the iOS system log — for example, if the database cannot be opened or a reminder cannot be scheduled. These entries contain framework error messages only. They never contain your trial names, prices, notes, or any text recognised from a screenshot. System log entries stay on your device unless you deliberately export a sysdiagnose.

Separately, iOS offers a system-wide setting to share crash and usage data with developers. If you have turned that on, Apple may provide the developer with aggregated, Apple-processed crash statistics for StillFree. That is an Apple service governed by Apple’s privacy policy, it is off unless you enable it, and it is not something StillFree collects or can switch on. You can review it in Settings → Privacy & Security → Analytics & Improvements.

Purchases

StillFree is a one-time paid app sold through the App Store. The entire transaction is handled by Apple. StillFree contains no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, and no payment code, and it never sees your payment details, your Apple Account, or your purchase history. What Apple collects when you buy an app is covered by Apple’s privacy policy.

Third parties

StillFree shares your information with no one. There are no processors, no service providers, no advertising partners, and no data brokers, because there is no transmission to share. Apple appears in this policy only in its own capacity: as the operator of the App Store, of your device backups, and of iOS itself.

How long it is kept

Your trials stay on your iPhone until you delete them or delete the app. There is no automatic expiry: a trial you mark as cancelled, kept, or expired moves to History and stays there so you have a record, until you remove it. Imported screenshots are not kept at all.

Deleting your information

Because everything is on your device, deletion is immediate and complete.

There is no request to submit and no one to ask, because there is no copy anywhere else to erase. If you would like help confirming this, write to us.

Your rights

Data protection law in your region — including the GDPR in the UK and EU, and the CCPA/CPRA in California — gives you rights to access, correct, export, delete, and restrict the use of your personal information, and to object to it being sold or shared. StillFree does not sell or share personal information, and does not process it for advertising.

In practice these rights are already fully in your hands: the information lives on your device, in an app you control, where you can read it, edit it, and delete it directly, at any time, without asking anyone. Where StillFree does process personal information, it does so on the basis of performing the service you asked it for. If you nonetheless want to exercise a right formally, or believe something here is inaccurate, contact us and we will help. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Children

StillFree is a general-audience utility and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly collect information from anyone, of any age, because it collects nothing.

Changes to this policy

If StillFree changes in a way that affects this policy — adding iCloud sync, for example — this page will be updated before that version ships, and the effective date at the top will change. Material changes will also be noted in the app’s release notes. Previous versions are available on request.

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