QuoteDiary iOS App
Privacy Policy
QuoteDiary helps you save, organize, scan, and share quotes. This Privacy Policy explains what data the QuoteDiary iOS app and its extensions handle — the widget, and the share and action extensions that let you send text to QuoteDiary from another app — why that data is used, when data may leave your device, and what choices you have.
QuoteDiary does not include advertising SDKs, tracking SDKs, or third-party analytics SDKs.
Your quotes are stored on your device. With iCloud Sync on — the default — a copy also lives in your own private iCloud account, never on a server of ours.
Scanning, exporting, importing text from another app, and picking a photo all happen only when you start them. iCloud Sync starts on and can be switched off at any time.
At a Glance
- QuoteDiary does not sell personal information.
- QuoteDiary does not track you across apps or websites owned by other companies.
- QuoteDiary does not require an account with the developer.
- QuoteDiary does not operate a developer server for storing your quote library.
- QuoteDiary never asks for access to your photo library. When you pick a photo, the system picker hands over only that one image.
- Text you send to QuoteDiary from another app goes straight into your own library on the device. It is not transmitted to the developer.
- Book lookup requests may be sent to the Google Books API when you use book search or ISBN lookup.
- iCloud Sync is on by default and can be switched off at any time. While on, it runs through your own Apple Account under Apple's privacy terms.
Data QuoteDiary Handles
The information you create in QuoteDiary may include quotes, authors, book titles, notes, tags, colors, collections, reading context, and other details you choose to save. This is user-created content and is primarily stored locally on your device.
The QuoteDiary widget extension may read quote data from shared local app storage so it can display selected quotes on your Home Screen or Lock Screen.
QuoteDiary’s share and action extensions appear in the iOS share sheet when you select text in another app. They receive only the text you share with them, and write it to the same local storage the app uses. They do not read your library beyond the list of collections needed to offer you a destination, and they send nothing over the network.
| Data or Permission | Purpose | Where It Is Processed |
|---|---|---|
| Quotes, authors, books, notes, tags, collections, and app preferences | App functionality, organization, search, display, widgets, and export features | Stored locally on your device, in a shared app container the QuoteDiary widget reads from, and — while iCloud Sync is on, which is the default — in the private database of your own iCloud account. |
| Camera access | Scanning text from printed material, scanning ISBN barcodes, and taking a cover photo for a collection | Used only when you open a scanning or photo feature. Images are processed on the device and are not uploaded to a developer server. |
| Photos you choose from your library | Setting a cover image on a collection, or using one of your own photos as the backdrop behind a shared quote | Chosen through the iOS photo picker, which runs outside QuoteDiary and hands over only the image you select — the app is never granted access to browse your library. A cover image is resized and stored with the collection, so it travels with the rest of your library when iCloud Sync is on. A share backdrop is resized and kept in QuoteDiary’s own storage on that device only, and is not synced. |
| Scanned text and ISBN values | Create quote entries or search for book details | Processed in the app. ISBN or search terms may be sent to Google Books when you request book lookup. |
| Book search terms | Retrieve book metadata such as title, author, cover thumbnail, and publication details | Sent to the Google Books API when you use book search or ISBN lookup. |
| Text sent to QuoteDiary from another app | Saving a passage you selected elsewhere as a quote, in a collection you pick | Received by QuoteDiary’s share or action extension at the moment you send it, and written to the same local storage as anything you type in. While iCloud Sync is on it syncs through your own iCloud account like the rest of your library. It is not sent anywhere else. |
| Exported or shared quote content | Allow you to share, save, copy, or export quotes | Shared only when you choose an export or share action. The destination app or service then controls its own handling. |
Data Collection, Tracking, and App Store Privacy
Apple's App Store privacy labels distinguish between data that is collected, linked to you, and used to track you. QuoteDiary is designed to be local-first: quote library data is kept on your device, and leaves it only through iCloud Sync — which is on by default and can be switched off — a book-lookup feature, or content you choose to share or export. None of those routes send your library to the developer.
QuoteDiary does not use data for third-party advertising, developer advertising, marketing, analytics profiling, or tracking across apps and websites. QuoteDiary does not link your app activity with third-party data for advertising or advertising measurement.
Book Search and System Services
When you search for a book by title, author, or ISBN, QuoteDiary may send the search term or ISBN to the Google Books API to return matching book information. Google may process these requests according to its own privacy practices.
You can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Google Books is the only third-party service QuoteDiary contacts. The app contains no advertising, tracking, attribution, or analytics SDKs of any kind.
QuoteDiary may occasionally ask you to rate the app. That prompt is presented by Apple's own App Store rating service; the developer receives no personal information from it, and cannot tell whether you responded.
iCloud Sync
iCloud Sync is on by default on a new installation, provided your device is signed in to an Apple Account with iCloud available. The first-run screens tell you this and let you switch it off before you begin, and you can change it later at any time in QuoteDiary's Preferences. If you are updating from an earlier version, whatever you chose before is kept.
While it is on, your quote library — collections, quotes, authors, notes, tags, colours, and any cover images you added — is synced through your own Apple Account, into its private iCloud database, so it can appear on your other Apple devices. This is the same mechanism iOS uses for other apps' iCloud data.
Photos you import as backdrops for sharing are deliberately left out of sync. They stay in QuoteDiary’s storage on the device where you added them, so no photo of yours is placed in iCloud by QuoteDiary unless you used it as a collection cover.
With sync switched off, your library exists only on the device it was created on, and nothing about it leaves that device.
The developer has no access to that data. It is not stored on, routed through, or readable by any server operated by the developer, who cannot see your library, tell how large it is, or tell whether you have sync switched on at all.
While sync is enabled, Apple's push service is used to tell the app that something changed on another device so it knows to fetch it. These are silent, system-level messages tied to syncing only — QuoteDiary does not send marketing or promotional notifications.
You can turn iCloud Sync off again in Preferences at any time, which stops further syncing. Data already in iCloud stays in your account until you remove it, which you can do from iOS Settings under your Apple Account → iCloud → Manage Account Storage.
Permissions
QuoteDiary requests camera access only when you open a feature that needs it — scanning text from a page, scanning an ISBN barcode, or adding a cover photo to a collection. You can grant, deny, or later change camera permission in iOS Settings. If camera permission is disabled, those features will not work, but the rest of the app can still be used.
Camera access is the only permission QuoteDiary asks for. Choosing one of your own photos — as a collection cover, or as the backdrop behind a shared quote — needs no photo library permission and will not prompt you for one. Those pickers are provided by iOS and run outside the app: you browse your library inside Apple’s picker, and QuoteDiary is handed only the single image you select. It cannot see, search, or list anything else in your photos.
A photo you pick is cropped and resized on the device before it is stored. Backdrops you import for sharing stay in QuoteDiary’s own storage on that device, and you can delete one at any time by pressing and holding it in the backdrop picker.
QuoteDiary also ships a set of ready-made backdrops for sharing. Choosing one of those reads nothing from your photos at all.
Sharing, Exporting, and Importing
QuoteDiary lets you export or share quotes. Sharing happens only when you choose a share or export action. Once content is shared outside QuoteDiary, that content is handled by the receiving app, service, or person.
Content can also travel the other way. When you select text in another app and send it to QuoteDiary from the iOS share sheet, QuoteDiary receives that text — or, if you shared a whole web page rather than a selection, its address — so it can be saved as a quote in a collection you choose. It receives nothing else: not the app you shared from, and not whatever else was on the screen at the time. What you send is written to your library on the device, and syncs through your own iCloud account while iCloud Sync is on.
Data Retention and Deletion
QuoteDiary keeps your saved quote data until you edit or delete it, or remove the app. If you switched iCloud Sync off before adding anything, or it was never available on your device, your library only ever existed on that device, and deleting the app removes it with no copy left behind.
Backdrops you imported for sharing are stored in the app’s own container on the device. Deleting the app removes them, and because they are never synced, reinstalling does not bring them back.
If iCloud Sync is or was enabled, a copy remains in your own iCloud account after the app is deleted, so that reinstalling and signing in to the same Apple Account restores it. You can remove that copy yourself from iOS Settings under your Apple Account → iCloud → Manage Account Storage. The developer cannot remove it for you, because the developer has no access to it.
Children's Privacy
QuoteDiary is not directed to children under 13. The app does not knowingly collect personal information from children through advertising, analytics, or tracking services.
Security
QuoteDiary relies on iOS app sandboxing, local device storage protections, the system permission prompts, and — while iCloud Sync is on — Apple's iCloud infrastructure and the protections of your own Apple Account. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, but QuoteDiary is designed to limit data sharing to the features you choose to use.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect app changes, legal requirements, or clarification of existing practices. If the policy changes, the effective date above will be updated.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or QuoteDiary's privacy practices, contact support@empearl.net.
This policy applies only to QuoteDiary for iOS and its app extensions. It does not apply to third-party websites, services, or apps that may be opened from or used with QuoteDiary.