BookSnippet has no account and no servers of its own. Your snippets, photos, and book library are stored only on your iPhone. Text recognition runs entirely on the device. The single time the app reaches the internet is to look up a book title from the ISBN barcode you choose to scan.
01 Who we are
BookSnippet (“the app,” “we,” “us”) is an iPhone app for saving passages from physical books. This policy explains what the app does and doesn’t do with your information. If you have questions, contact us at info@superdocs.io.
02 What stays on your device
Everything you create in BookSnippet is stored locally on your iPhone and is not transmitted to us or anyone else:
- Page photos — the images you capture are saved in the app’s private storage on your device.
- Snippets & highlights — the recognized text you keep and the passages you highlight.
- Your library — book titles, authors, and the way your snippets are organized.
We never see this content. Deleting a snippet, or deleting the app, removes the associated data from your device. If you have iCloud Backup enabled for the app, copies may be included in your own encrypted Apple backup under your control — that is governed by Apple’s privacy policy, not ours.
03 Text recognition is on-device
BookSnippet reads the text on a page using Apple’s on-device Vision framework. Recognition, perspective correction, and de-skewing all happen locally on your iPhone. Your page photos are never uploaded for processing and work fully offline.
04 The one network request: ISBN lookup
When you scan a book’s barcode, the app sends the ISBN number — and nothing else — to Open Library, a free book database operated by the Internet Archive, to fetch the matching book title.
- Only the ISBN is sent. No photos, snippets, identifiers, or personal information are included.
- This request happens only when you choose to scan a barcode. If you never scan one, the app makes no network requests at all.
- Open Library handles that request under its own terms and privacy practices.
05 Purchases
BookSnippet is free for your first 20 snippets. Unlocking BookSnippet Pro is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Apple’s App Store and StoreKit. We do not collect or process your payment details — Apple does, under Apple’s privacy policy. The app only checks with Apple whether your Pro unlock is active; this entitlement check does not involve any servers of ours.
06 What we don’t do
- No account, login, or sign-up.
- No analytics, tracking, advertising, or third-party SDKs that collect data.
- No selling or sharing of your information — there is nothing collected to sell or share.
- No location, contacts, or microphone access.
07 Camera access
The app asks for camera permission so you can photograph book pages and scan barcodes. Images from the camera are used only for those purposes and stay on your device as described above. You can revoke camera access at any time in Settings → BookSnippet.
08 Children
BookSnippet is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, regardless of age.
09 Your control over your data
Because your data lives on your device, you are in full control of it. You can delete any snippet, photo, or book within the app, and uninstalling BookSnippet removes its data from your iPhone. Since we hold none of your content on our side, there is nothing for us to retrieve, export, or delete on your behalf.
10 Changes to this policy
If the app’s data practices change, we’ll update this page and revise the “Last updated” date above. Material changes will be reflected here before they take effect.
11 Contact
Questions about this policy or your privacy? Email info@superdocs.io.