Pocket Tools Privacy Policy
Effective November 14, 2026
The short version
- Your photos, videos, documents and passcode stay on your iPhone, encrypted. We never receive them.
- The app sends us anonymous counts of which features get used, and your country. No names, no device IDs, no exact location, nothing from inside the vault.
- If you send us feedback in the app, we receive what you type.
- No ads, no ad companies, no third-party analytics, no tracking across apps, and we never sell anything.
What stays on your iPhone
Everything you put in the vault (photos, videos, documents, folder and file names) is encrypted on your iPhone with Apple's built-in encryption and never leaves it unless you move it out yourself. The same goes for your passcode, recovery key, secret entrance code, decoy vault and wrong-passcode photos. We have no copy and no way to see or recover any of it.
If you make a backup, the app writes one encrypted file to a folder you pick (for example in iCloud Drive). Only your recovery key can open it. Apple or whoever stores that folder sees only scrambled data. We never receive it.
The app asks for the camera, microphone, photo library and Face ID only for the features that need them (taking photos into the vault, saving copies to Photos, deleting originals you moved in, unlocking). What they capture stays on your iPhone.
Anonymous usage counts
To learn what to improve, the app sends our own server, about once an hour while it's in use:
- Counts of features used, for example "slideshow started 3 times" or "2 photos added".
- How often and how long the vault was open, in rough ranges.
- Which settings are on (for example Face ID or Hidden Mode), whether it's the free or Pro version, and rough vault sizes such as "11 to 100 photos".
- The app version and iOS version.
- Your country, worked out from the internet connection when a report arrives. The internet address itself isn't stored.
Reports carry no name, account, device ID or advertising ID, so they can't be tied to you or your iPhone. In the free version this sharing is always on; in the European Union, the UK, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, the free version doesn't send vault sizes. With Pro you can turn sharing off in Settings, which stops it right away and forgets anything not yet sent.
Feedback messages
If you use Send Feedback, we receive the text you write, the app version and the iOS version, so we can read it and reply inside the app. No email or account is involved. The conversation is linked only to a random key kept on your iPhone. Please don't include personal details. Starting a new conversation removes the old one from your iPhone; to have it deleted from our server too, ask in a message.
Purchases
Pocket Tools Pro is bought through Apple. Apple handles the payment and tells the app only whether Pro is active. We don't receive your name, Apple ID or payment details.
How long we keep things, and how
Usage counts and feedback messages are deleted after 2 years. Our server keeps no request logs. Everything is sent over an encrypted connection and stored on a server we run ourselves, not with an analytics or advertising company. We don't sell or share this information, and we'd only hand it over if the law required it.
Children
Pocket Tools isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the date at the top. Questions or requests: support@axis24global.com.
Pocket Tools is made by Axis24 Global.