Screenshot Inbox
Effective 6 September 2026 · Last updated 13 September 2026 (free-trial record added)
Screenshot Inbox turns your screenshots into reminders, events, saved links, contacts and searchable records, and then helps you delete the originals. This policy explains what it reads, what stays on your device, and the very short list of things that ever leave it. It describes the app as it actually behaves.
The short version. No account. No server of ours, anywhere. Your screenshots are read on your device by the platform's own on-device text recognition — Apple's Vision framework on iPhone, Google's ML Kit on Android, both running entirely on the phone — and neither the images nor the text taken out of them are sent to us; we have nowhere to send them to. There is no advertising and no analytics service of any kind. Four things can leave your device, described below: an address you saved, when the app fetches that page's title (optional); on iPhone, your saved items if you turn on iCloud Sync (optional); one timestamp — the day your free trial began — kept in your own Apple or Google account so that deleting the app does not restart the trial; and, if you buy Premium, the store's purchase receipt, which goes to the subscription service that tells the app your purchase is active. Nothing is ever deleted from your photo library without you confirming it first.
This policy covers both the iPhone and the Android app. Where they differ, the difference is stated in the section concerned.
Screenshot Inbox is published by Apex Root Solutions LLC ("we", "us"), a limited liability company organised under the laws of the State of Delaware, with its registered office in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, and its principal place of business in Cedar Hill, Dallas County, Texas. We are the controller of the personal data described here.
Contact us at support@apsoluts.com for any question about this policy, or to exercise any right described in section 12.
With your permission, the app reads screenshots from your photo library. It looks only at images the system has marked as screenshots (on Android, the Screenshots folder), and ignores your photographs. You can also hand it specific images yourself, through the picker or the share sheet, in which case it reads what you gave it and nothing else.
Reading happens entirely on your device. On iPhone it uses Apple's Vision and Natural Language frameworks, which are part of iOS. On Android it uses Google's ML Kit text recognition with the recognition models bundled inside the app, so nothing is downloaded and no image leaves the phone. A screenshot is never uploaded for processing. There is no cloud processing mode in this version; the setting that would gate one exists so that nothing can ever change that without you turning it on first, and it does nothing today.
If you grant limited photo access rather than full access, the app works with the images you selected and cannot see the rest of your library.
All of the following are stored locally and are not transmitted to us:
The app keeps a copy of a screenshot's text and a small thumbnail alongside each saved item, deliberately. It is what lets the information survive after you delete the original, which is the entire point of the app.
Where a screenshot contains information about someone else — a business card, a message, an invitation — you are responsible for having the right to keep it. It is stored on your device the same as your own.
This is the app's most consequential action, so it is worth being exact.
Off by default. With it off, nothing about your items leaves the device.
On Android there is no sync feature. The app's database and settings are included in Android's own device backup, which goes to your Google account under Google's terms if you have backup turned on; your screenshots and the app's image copies are excluded from it. We have no access to that backup.
Turning it on copies your saved items — their titles, notes, extracted text, thumbnails, tags, collections and scheduled dates — into your own private iCloud database, under your Apple Account, so they survive a lost or reset device and appear on your other devices. Your original screenshots are not uploaded. We have no access to that data: it is held by Apple under Apple's privacy policy, in your account, not ours. We receive nothing and can retrieve nothing.
Turning sync off stops further copying. Removing what has already been copied is done through your Apple Account's iCloud storage settings, or by using "Delete all data" in the app while sync is on.
Every install gets one seven-day trial of every feature. To keep that promise in both directions — a full seven days, and only seven — the app records the date the trial began somewhere deleting the app does not reach. The record is a single timestamp. It contains nothing else, is not an identifier, and is never sent to us.
This is the whole extent of it. The app has no server and no account, so it cannot recognise you beyond these records; a device erased and set up with a different Apple or Google account is, to the app, a new device.
One thing, and only if you leave it on. When you save a link, the app asks that page for its title and icon so the saved item is recognisable. That request goes to the website itself, reveals your device's IP address to it as any web request does, and is the only outbound request the app makes on its own. It can be turned off completely in Settings under "Fetch link previews", and with it off the app makes no network request at all.
On Android, when you choose "when I arrive at…" and search for a place, the words you type are sent to the device's geocoding service (Google's, on phones with Google services) to find that place — the same way the iPhone app sends them to Apple Maps. Your own position is not read for that search.
We operate no server for this app. There is no endpoint of ours for the app to talk to.
Purchases are made through the App Store or Google Play, which handle your payment details; we never see them. To recognise a purchase across your devices and keep subscription status accurate, the app may use RevenueCat, a subscription service. When it does, RevenueCat receives the purchase receipt from the store, a random identifier the app generates for this install (not your name, email or account), and basic device information the SDK needs to work. It receives no screenshots, no extracted text and no saved items. RevenueCat processes that data on our behalf under its own privacy policy, and it is used only to tell the app whether Premium is active. Settings → About in the app shows whether RevenueCat is in use.
When you confirm a suggestion, the app writes to Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Maps or your browser through iOS. It writes only the item you approved on screen, and only after you approve it. Once written, that information lives in that app and under its own rules and sync settings — a calendar event you approved will sync wherever your calendar syncs.
The app checks for an existing match before creating a contact or an event, so it can offer to update rather than create a duplicate. That check reads your Contacts and Calendar; it does not copy them.
Only used for reminders you set up yourself. If you ask to be reminded about a screenshot when you arrive somewhere, the app asks the system to watch for that one place, and the system tells it when you arrive (on iPhone through iOS region monitoring; on Android through Google Play services geofencing, which needs the "allow all the time" location permission for exactly this reason). Your location is never recorded, never stored, and never sent anywhere. The app does not track your movement, does not start continuous location updates, and keeps background location updates disabled. Remove the reminder and the app stops watching for that place.
Saved items are added to your phone's own search index so you can find them from the Home Screen (Spotlight on iPhone, AppSearch on Android). That index is created and held by the system on your device and is not sent to us. Anything the app has flagged as sensitive is left out of it whatever your setting says, because search results can appear on a Lock Screen. You can turn indexing off entirely in Settings, which withdraws everything the app has published to it.
The app tries to notice when a screenshot holds something like a password, a one-time code or banking details, and marks it. Marked items can have their thumbnails hidden, are excluded from device search, and never appear in the body of a notification. This detection runs on your device and is a convenience, not a guarantee — it will miss things, and you should not rely on it to keep a secret.
Screenshot Inbox is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from a child; in practice we do not collect personal data from anyone, because there is nowhere for it to go. If you believe a child has given us personal data directly, write to support@apsoluts.com and we will delete it.
The app's database and the images it stores are held in your device's app storage and protected by the platform's file encryption. You can additionally require Face ID, Touch ID, fingerprint or your passcode to open the app, and have it hide its contents in the app switcher.
We retain nothing, because we receive nothing. Your data lives for as long as you keep it on your device, plus whatever you have chosen to copy to your own iCloud account.
No system is perfectly secure and we do not claim otherwise. Having no account and no server limits what any breach of ours could expose — there is no store of your information to breach — but it does not protect your device itself if it is lost, stolen, or unlocked in someone else's hand.
Everything the app holds is on your device and under your control. You can view, edit and delete any item in the app, export all of your saved items and their extracted text from Settings as a JSON file, and erase everything with "Delete all data".
Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to object to or restrict processing, to data portability, and to complain to a supervisory authority. If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we do not process your personal data on our own systems at all; where the app processes it on your device, it does so to perform the features you asked for. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising as those terms are used in California law.
We operate from Texas, in the United States. Because we receive no personal data from the app, there is no transfer of your data to us to describe. If you turn on iCloud Sync, Apple processes that data under its own policy and its own arrangements.
If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change materially affects how we handle your data, we will say so in the app before it takes effect.