Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 12, 2026

Pawbooth finds photos of your dog on your iPhone and shows them as a wall of prints and widgets. This policy explains what happens with your data. The short version: your photos stay on your phone, unless you ask Studio to make a portrait. To learn which of our ads bring people to Pawbooth, the app tells Meta that it was installed and opened, and RevenueCat tells Meta about subscriptions. Your photos and your dog's details are never part of that.

Who we are

Pawbooth is made by Invsion OG, Lobaustraße 64/10, 2301 Groß-Enzersdorf, Austria ("we"). Contact: [email protected]. Full details are in the Impressum.

Your photo library stays on your phone

With your permission, Pawbooth reads your photo library and uses Apple's Vision framework on your device to find photos of your dog. This scan runs entirely on your iPhone. Your photos are not uploaded, and we never see your library.

What the app saves is stored only on your device, including in the shared space the Pawbooth widgets read from: your dog's name, breed, birthday and gotcha day, the photo you picked to start with, which photos you kept, favourites, pins, photos you marked "not him", where your dog's eyes are in each photo (so the photos can be lined up), your chosen look, your widget, sound and notification settings, and whether "In memory" is on.

If you show Pawbooth a photo of your dog at the start, you pick it in Apple's photo picker, and the breed guess is made on your device. New photos are found the same way: when you open the app, and now and then in the background, Pawbooth checks recently added photos on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

Adding to your photo library

Pawbooth never edits or deletes the photos in your library. It only adds something when you ask:

Lock-screen album. If you choose to put your dog on your lock screen and confirm, Pawbooth creates an album named after your dog in Photos and adds up to 60 photos of your dog that are already in your library. No copies are made. It stays in Photos until you delete it there; deleting the album doesn't delete the photos.
Saving an image. When you save a portrait, a card or a video to Photos, it's added to your library.

Notifications

Notifications are optional; Pawbooth asks once. If you allow them, the app schedules them on your iPhone from your own data: on your dog's birthday and gotcha day, on days that have photos from earlier years, and on Sundays when new photos of your dog were added that week. They're created on your device. No notification server is involved, and their content isn't sent to us.

Background refresh

Pawbooth asks iOS for a little background time now and then to look for new photos of your dog. It's the same check that runs when you open the app, limited to recently added photos. It runs on your device and uploads nothing. You can turn it off in iOS Settings → General → Background App Refresh.

Studio portraits

Studio is optional. Only when you ask for a portrait, and after you agree in the app, we send the following to create it:

the photo you chose, downscaled,
up to two of your favourite photos as reference, downscaled,
the chosen style and any note you typed.

These go to our server (hosted by Supabase) and on to our image generation provider, Kie.ai, which creates the portrait and returns it. We use this data only to make your portrait. We don't keep copies on our server, don't use it for advertising and don't sell it. Kie.ai stores uploaded files temporarily to process them, under its own terms. The finished portraits are saved on your device.

Subscriptions

Payments are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details. To check whether your subscription is active, the app uses RevenueCat, which receives your purchase history from Apple together with a random identifier that is not linked to your name or email.

Ads and measurement

We advertise Pawbooth on Facebook and Instagram. To learn which ads lead to installs and subscriptions, the app includes Meta's SDK (Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.). It tells Meta that the app was installed and opened, with a random identifier for this installation, basic device information (model, iOS version, language, time zone) and your IP address. RevenueCat tells Meta when you start or renew a subscription, with the same random identifier.

iOS asks whether Pawbooth may track you. If you allow it, your device's advertising identifier (IDFA) is added. If you don't, it is never collected, and Apple's SKAdNetwork measures installs without identifying you. You can change your answer at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.

Meta never receives your photos, your dog's name or details, or what you do in the app beyond opening it and subscribing. Meta processes this data under its own privacy policy (facebook.com/privacy/policy).

What we don't do

No accounts and no sign-in.
No ads inside the app. Beyond installs, opens and subscriptions (see above), we don't track what you do in it.
We don't sell your data.

Permissions

Photos is used to find your dog's photos and show them and, only when you ask, to add the lock-screen album or save an image. Camera is only used if you take a new photo in Studio. Notifications are optional and only used for the reminders above. Tracking is optional and only adds the advertising identifier to ad measurement. You can change each of these at any time in iOS Settings → Pawbooth.

Deleting your data

In the app, open the You tab and tap Delete my data. This removes everything Pawbooth stored on your device. Deleting the app does the same. Pawbooth doesn't delete anything from your photo library: an album or image you asked it to add stays in Photos until you delete it there. To cancel a subscription, go to Settings → your name → Subscriptions.

This website

pawbooth.app sets no cookies and uses no analytics. Like any web server, ours briefly keeps standard access logs (IP address, time, page requested) to keep the site running and secure.

Your rights

If you are in the EU or UK, you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, and to data portability. We process Studio data to provide the service you ask for (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and on the basis of your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time by not using Studio. We measure our ads on the basis of our legitimate interest in knowing which ads work (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); the advertising identifier is only used with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw in iOS Settings at any time. Write to [email protected]. You can also complain to your data protection authority; in Austria that is the Datenschutzbehörde (dsb.gv.at).

Children

Pawbooth is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update it here and change the date at the top.